I'm still getting pwnd. Old-school!

I still can't believe Hitler blundered like this. It's not really a story of Allied glory and success; more a story of taking advantage of the opponent's dumb mistake.

I just read Simulacron 3, the book which was maybe sorta a basis for The Matrix. I'd never even heard of it until recently, but found it pretty good. It's fairly short. I recommend it. The vision of the future in 2033 is funny, though. There are flying cars, but files are still kept on paper, and scientists still…

I'd like to be pedantic and point out that Shatner will neither be weightless nor will he be experiencing zero-g. He will be in freefall. Same as the people in the space station.

My Feist recommendation is the song "One Evening".

That's exactly the guy I picture every time I hear the voice, even though it's an Asian woman.

I have one which has a more annoying quirk. After connecting, it exclaims in a loud female voice with a heavy Asian accent, "Bruetoof Paiwing Successfuw!"

We went over all this when Genesis was published.

I think we all hit peak after Empire.

I don't know how the third act was brilliant. Jyn was saved from getting shot by Krennic, in a scene straight from The Handbook of Hackneyed Plot Devices, at the last second, by The Guy We Thought Was Dead But Only Had All His Bones Broken. Even though I saw it coming a mile away I was still annoyed. And, oh yeah,…

Were there really phony robberies? That's taking a huge risk. I've only heard of policies that are the opposite. I think 7-11 fired an employee for resisting a robbery. It's policy to not resist at all. Just less liability involved.

Well, the frog thing is beyond my knowledge of magnetism, but every kid who's played with magnets a little has an intuitive idea of how they behave. Two magnets repel, but you can't get one to levitate because the system is inherently unstable. And the attractive force drops as the square of distance, so they seem…

Uh, after watching the trailer, I don't think this is how magnets work. I don't think I'm being too pedantic because I only have a rudimentary knowledge of magnetism, but I know that you can't repel non-magnetized objects (rings, chairs, etc.) with a magnet, and you can't have any affect at all on nonferrous objects…

I think he gets a pass on Anglified German words, especially since that's one of the few that Americans get close to correct. Americans don't even say "Hitler" or "Berlin" correctly. Nor have I ever heard a reporter not mangle "Angela Merkel". We can get "Mozart", but not "Wolfgang" or "Amadeus". And I don't know…

If only Sherlock or Perry Mason were still around and could solve this great mystery. Alas, we may never know!

I went and checked out the wording of the original, and it is indeed "importing". Apparently reporting now consists of re-quoting the AP. It's ironic that the lawsuit is about fake news, and the error in the quoted headline changes the meaning enough to elevate the AP story itself to fake news. And the AP story…

8 percentage points higher, I would say, if I wanted to be a nerd about it.

That section made me laugh with its footnote ("Brazil"). The most hilarious section is the "Methodology" section at the end, as if it were being published in some prestigious journal.

Ha, what a rube! Everyone knows you show up at the Amtrak station no earlier than 2 hours after the scheduled time.

That thing would be terrible for jumping the crick. I would not want to be under hot pursuit in that.