Yay for Achewoodery!

I'm also gonna add that having a weirdo consultant come in and give every job in the school a thumbs up or thumbs down is a very uncool thing to do - no matter how casually accepted it may be.

Also Odd Squad ain't so bad. Riddles and math accompanied by floating gold fish is awesome.

I really really adore Peep's Big Wide World because it has awesome voice casting (A) and (B) tackles fundamental science issues like coming up with coherent mapping or gathering data over time in a super applicable way to young kids lives.

* considers if all the conversation with idiotking about Jonathan Swift check out *

The Simpsons practice on the regular.

Yes, from a wonderful wonderful episode of the Simpsons.

I think it's an… assumption that Abe worked all his life.

What a glorious slaughter! That sounds like a pretty great match, and good job on keeping some Starfighters alive!

Yeah, the Ackbar Slash is a brutal thing.

So as unit wargames go it's - thus far - actually fairly cheap. It doesn't take a lot to get to 400 points and if you are careful and only build to specific lists you can walk away from a store with a far heavier wallet than you can with most comparable games (even it's sister game X-Wing is more expensive). That…

I felt like… A Wrinkle in Time seemed to me to be a good book, but A Wind in the Door felt like a new voice to me.

Certainly been a while since I read it, I think my reading at the time was based as much on how I read the youngest sister's character development - having trouble dealing with school, constantly getting called back, having a bit of a chip on the shoulder for people not in on the secret of Narnia/noble adventures… as…

Farandolae! And you know it's better because the grammar is impeccable and while still made up biology it's named for an English country dance which would be a cool thing for a biologist to do rather than a lame thing for a Jedi to do!

Oddly, one of the ways I processed that reaction, personally, was that Aslan was sort of reaching out to help the other three kids who ended up sort of wrecked by their experience and unable to integrate. Which was interesting to me in terms of the post-war trauma I assumed they were also dealing with.

All right. So.
It's not entirely accurate that Aslan is the same as Jesus. Without going into all sorts of trinitarian theology - Jesus is the person necessary for salvation history in our world and Aslan is the person necessary for salvation history in Narnia. Lewis was pretty clear they were related but distinct…

A Wind in the Door has the stars and mitochondria theme in it, though, which is awesome and a bad ass Cherubim.

10 things to understand about extroverts:
1. It may be ok for people to be gregarious and considerate
2. They may undervalue the completion of lists

I might take that as the exception that proves the rule, but I'd really have to see the episode. In the comic the premise is impressive but the set-up is more so.

I really recommend his ABC comics if you aren't familiar with them. At the time he frequently commented on them as an antidote to the influence of Watchmen (note: not a response to the message of) and I think between Promethea, Tom Strong, Tales, and Top Ten there's a pretty interesting spectrum on the Super Hero tale.