Mac Plus. I bought it used. No hard drive at all; it worked by swapping floppy disks, or, later, by putting one in the main drive slot and another in the external drive.

So, basically, they proved that gold is an electric conductor? Kinda disappointing. But they still gave Adam a shock.

They tried something similar in episode 29 of the 2005 season, and ranked it "plausible." Also gave Adam a nasty shock.

we truly live in the Golden Age of (TV) Cinema

Rickman would be great. I mean, DDL would be great too, because he's always great — but Rickman would be beyond great.

I second that. I know a lot of very religious people. None oppose vaccines for religious reasons. Some are anti vaxxers, but they're the granola-baking lefties in the front pew.

I couldn't agree less! The Aeneid is one of my favorite works of art, ever. It's loaded with enough adventure and emotion to thrill generations of schoolboys, but enough ironic distance to satisfy the adults those kids become.

Yes, it is propaganda for Augustus (and Rome in general). But at the same time, it does a…

It shames me to admit this, but my secret weapon in the war on mosquitoes is a human shield. To wit: the skeeters seem to like the smell of my wife and son more than they do me. So as long as we are together, I am left nearly alone.

Errr..... the Arrow people are making a Hawkman series? I thought it was the Flash. But I'm good for whatever.

So let me get this right. The suits at Fox turned down Joss Whedon's script because it was too witty? All the writers in all of history heave a collective sigh of despair.

I'm powering through Kage Baker's "Company" series — loved "Life of the World to Come," and am currently less than enthralled by "Children of the Company."

And we'll get to the Gamma Quadrant by climbing a the giant stacks of paper we produce in our "paperless" offices.

Yes, bats are a huge part of an intact ecosystem, especially one that involves agriculture. They are primary predators of many pests — beetles, moths, mosquitoes etc. They also do some pollination themselves, and spread seeds. Their droppings are an important nutrient for many cave ecosystems.

I take your point, but ... you do realize this makes you the first person ever to accuse Wagner of sanitizing anything, least of all to fit mainstream tastes?

Honorable mention to Edward bellamy's Julian West. Technically he was in a trance for 113 years, but close enough, right?

I actually bought the Jimmy Olson/Don Rickles team-up at the newsstand. Had no idea who Don Rickles was at that age. But I can still picture Kirby's version of his terrifying open mouth.

Walter James Miller.

I'd already read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea a couple of times, as well as a decent amount of other science fiction - Heinlein's juveniles, that sort of thing. But at the age of 10, I stumbled over the WJM translation of 20,000 Leagues — and Miller's introduction.

I went to a school with no athletic scholarships and, not coincidentally, no football team. We had plenty of student athletes, who were bona fide amateurs. Some of them were pretty good — a national Frisbee champion, ranked croquet and squash teams, and (by the time I left) a decent fencing program. Obviously,…

My first winter in Virginia's northern Piedmont. It wasn't all that cold, but it was much snowier than I had expected — more like my boyhood in the Catskills. People assure me it's an anomaly.

John Byrne drew a nice one in an episode of Generations. Basically the Silver Age costume, but with no reflective highlights — and the belt turned a much-more-logical gray, too.