All true. And yet, when we do drive, child safety seat laws exist only to protect kids against the unlikely event of being in a crash.

So all the videos show the rider gets off balance, board takes off, feet fly up, hard landing on tailbone and/or upper body. Picture that with a kid and it’s getting dropped from 4 ft best case, getting slammed head first worst case.

Malls are private property - no skateboards or bikes inside (and apparently hoverboards)

Watched a guy get stopped by the cops and told to step off the hoverboard. In a very crowded mall, a few days before Christmas. With a 3-year old in his arms. I cheered.

Crime of the century - he drilled holes in the guy’s head and it ZERO effect. I mean, Bond was supposed to escape before the drill WENT INTO HIS BRAIN, right?

Thank you for that. Also, don’t lose sight of the business reality. Say you open a small, community theater. You gain access to a variety of different works. You may not have complete control over the plays you put on, but you do have control over your hiring practices. If you’re looking for talent, sometimes you get…

Shame indeed. I watched the theatrical release of Brazil, where the good guys rappel in at the end to save Jonathan Pryce. Then I saw the Director’s cut, in which the Sam Lowry character DOESN’T get rescued. It was an object lesson about how three seconds of footage can change the entire meaning of a film.

Or, alternatively, we could just make all farts smell like MY farts - then all of the elevators and cramped airplanes would smell like roses!

Superman working on car:

Ya gotta love it. You want to make sure the explosion is big enough, but when it’s bigger than expected, it went “horribly awry,” even though it was clearly intended to blow shit up in the first place. Just imagine using FIFTEEN THOUSAND of these babies in a nuclear war - it’s “horribly awry” if they worked exactly as…

Urban fantasy: I love living in the city - restaurants, movies, shopping are all close by, I’m at the center of the cultural heartbeat. Being a native, I navigate the urban landscape easily, and have everything I need.

Word is that Hernandez did his own neck, as well

Cool. Introduce Nazi mind control techniques, influence behavior in large enough groups, and we can get the kids off sugar! What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, the public would rather be fooled, in a very particular way - we all like to be fooled into feeling like we got an unbelievably good deal.

Spent two days with a mental image of Red Buttons sitting in my office, in a combo mnemonic/memory palace, but I completely forgot original associated item.

Gotta be real careful not to cross the yellow lines - they get very difficult to move after that

That’s the main reason I won’t open any spreadsheets or MS Office attachments in my (non-work) mail or out in the wild on the web. Makes a pain when VBA coding examples are imbedded in zipped workbooks, but if I can’t roll my own, I’m not using anybody elses’s

Dang. No love for Joe Black, huh?

Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds

We’re kind of past that point now. Where a government can step in and say stop