Luke: "You have a lot of privilege as a rich white guy that you're refusing to acknowledge!"
Danny: …

My first thought was of Pepys' diary, which talked about his pooping an awful lot, among other things, but is also a really important and interesting thing, especially for historians.

That sort of thing isn't necessarily outside of the norm for scientists - especially the ones back in the 1700 and 1800s before it was as specialized/mathematized as it is now. You never know what data is important until you gather it all up - and even then….
And they're still sometimes a bit of an odd breed today: htt…

Being evil doesn't mean that a person is literally evil in every possible way. Many of the most evil people to live were very pleasant people to be around, had close friends and family, and were compassionate towards others sometimes (usually when it was the right others). That's why it's dangerous: it's easy to…

Every time I see a show/movie where one of them goes on about it I can't help but think "Look buddy, the sun rises every morning. Who do you think you're fooling."

I think you just pointed out that they can be misused, and then gave as an example all the ways in which they could actually be used.

When I was in college a local pizza place* would sell pizza with gyro meat on them and tatziki sauce on the side for dipping. It was absolutely magnificent**, but outside of that people who dip anything but the crusts into dipping sauces should be banned from pizza. (Adding sauces on top of a pizza isn't necessarily…

Wait is Little Caesar's different now than it was a (long long time) while ago?

It's sad to read the older editions of the Joy of Cooking, because as it 'modernized' it really did get more useful as a general purpose cookbook (not that the earlier versions weren't very good general purpose cookbooks anyway), but lost all of the weird character that it had had before. Now if you get a new one…

Also you can have it in the kitchen and not worry that you'll be out five hundred dollars if you spill your sauce in the wrong place.

But does it have the hilariously earnest and questionably accurate article on nutrition and global poverty in the beginning? I don't think it's a real version of it without that.

For me it would probably be either Land of Plenty (cookbook that I've used more than anything else, although not recently), More With Less (original edition, salvaged it from my parents who cooked out of it almost exclusively for my childhood), or the 1967 Joy of Cooking (that I tracked down on eBay and would be…

I have my grandmother's old cookbook and set of notecards, but with my grandmother this is mostly to take out at parties and have fun reading off recipes.* Literally none of her children wanted it in the slightest, and most of them were surprised that I was willing to take it at all rather than just letting them…

I don't mind the augment-virus explanation, to be honest it's actually a pretty good one, but the DS9 "We don't discuss it with outsiders" explanation is maybe the best possible one that could be hoped for so I'm still annoyed that they replaced it.

Yup - and a mostly recognizable one as well. It's not very, very accurate but it's not pronounced enough (or uncommon enough) that you'd recognize it as being wrong. She's from Northern California, with a little bit of upper-great-lakes/midwest thrown in there, which makes sense given the stage of graduate school we…

She betrayed them in a pretty significant (if stupid and ineffective) way, which could certainly motivate it. And I can absolutely see Coady and the Castor's assuming that this is the sort of thing that would intimidate Helena, as opposed to motivating her.

I never got the impression that one of the traits shared by the Castors was intelligence.

My personal suspicion is that while it's clearly set in Canada it's hard for a lot of American's to realize that for two reasons.

"You".

People who have enough money and power that they don't hear the word "no" in their lives or have the experience of wanting something badly and not being able to get it don't act in ways that look immature when they suddenly find themselves in that situation?