...and anyway, that whole right brain = arty, left brain = logical is a myth. Up there with "we don't use 90% of our brain". Irritates me.

I appreciate the joke, but as a UKer (is that a thing). I can honestly say if you asked a random stranger how there day is going you would just get a cold stare. Or if you are from the north you get "Alright" "you alright" "yeah i'm alright, you allright" in another infinate feedback loop.

UFO? Ridiculous.

I've linked the definition of racism here for you, Saladin:

Can't speak for other industries, but the amount of re-orgs in the finance world is jarring. I always used to think that big finance was a well oiled machine, but holy hell, processes and reporting and everything gets flipped on its head every 6-months everywhere I've been and so much time is spent re-calibrating so…

Looks like how I pictured the Shrike Church of the Final Atonement.

It is a damned shame that we have not seen the Shrike on the big screen yet.

Here's the problem with this kind of comment — 1) a lot of things that we assume are "no brainers" wind up being hard to actually quantify and demonstrate in practice, and/or aren't supported by actual data; 2) even if we find the "well, duh" result we expected, the process of quantifying and supporting a hypothesis…

I think so too, but it seems too easy for these puzzles.

The Nolan trilogy was fantastic (most of it, at least). I'm not about to jump onboard the revisionist-geek-history zeitgeist that seems to be lumping those films in with all the other misguided "dark gritty reboots" we've seen since. It needs to be remembered that the gritty approach those films took were genuinely…

24 times a year for the past 18 years these four poorly drawn, foul mouthed children have been completely skewering pretty much every stupid thing that has gone on in the world. I don't think Ive ever seen a show fhat understands the downfalls of outrage culture and widespread hysteria quite like South Park.

This happens more often than you think. It fits in the same category as removing eye-blinks, making sure "dead" actors don't breathe, or removing reflections of the film crew in windows. It's cosmetic CGI, and every movie and TV series employs it these days, even amateur short films.

Obligatory.

He may have invented it, but Mr. Garrison improved upon it... to a point.

8,000 years ago those Britons ate wheat and now they're all dead.

In "On Writing", Stephen Kin pointed out that you need to know the rules of proper writing (grammar, spelling, sentence structure, etc.) before you can break them. That really applies to everything. If you don't really know how things work, if you don't know what's in the box, you can't work outside the box.

The good news is you just broke the world record for words typed by a dead person. The longstanding record was zero. You pushed it to 6. Good job.