Huh, I interpreted that last question as quitting permanently, like tossing your guitars in the drainage ditch and going back to school to learn software engineering.  Maybe ‘cause that’s pretty much where I’m at.

“Officials are furious” will be on the tombstone of western civilization.

Seems like an unintended consequence of the walled garden approach to me. When you’re just designing for one hardware model, you try to squeeze every bit of performance you can out of it. Anything else is a waste. That it makes the older models age like french bread probably didn’t make Apple too sad, of course. 

I would say the best jargon is fun to say and sounds cool, but has no negative impact if you don’t get it. For example, any random physics journal article sounds like a star trek episode come to life, but has no relevance or importance to anyone outside the sub-sub-sub-field in question.

Counterpoint to anything Sandgren says: His name is Tennys. The man’s goddamn name is Tennys.

A lot of epistemic certainty in those Blowout readings. Sometimes it really is just a bad matchup, and a different seeding might’ve let your team go all the way. Sometimes it’s just not the team’s day, and it’s bad luck it’s happening in the playoffs and not week 3.  I’m a Browns fan going back to the early 80s. …

You’re still about a decade away before “natural causes” start to enter the discussion. I’m 46 and I’m starting to sweat it.

Huh, I pictured the nuclear apocalypse message to be in more of a VCR OSD Mono font.

The memory/clone thing didn’t bother me so much- it made me think of Roko’s Basilisk, with Plemons instead of a post-singularity AI. The framing story would’ve been harder to pull off, but, hey, whaddya gonna do.

Sock + sharpie glasses + shoe polish hair = puppet David Roth. C’mon, people, priorities!

A friendly reminder that “going back to basics” for Star Trek is pretty much the same thing as going totally bananas. Have you seen some of those original episodes?

I completely agree with everything you wrote. I figure that isn’t said enough on the internet :-)

Gaah, Red Dwarf image not loading.  WORST CHRISTMAS EVER

I would hope Weigel sees Trump’s call for his firing as the badge of honor it is. Judge people by their enemies, etc. etc.

A better explanation would be that (a) the Democratic Party as an organization appears to have forgotten how the electoral college works; and (b) Obama let the DNC collapse on itself while he tried to recreate it on his own terms (Organizing For America) and then let his own organization wither away. The Democrats as…

This is a very good distinction. I’ll add that “shrill” in particular seems to be used for any female public figure who doesn’t have a demure or low voice.

Finally saw this thing. It answers the unasked question “what if a movie was *all* fake-out endings?”

To anyone who thinks LotR is a slog: Tolkien wasn’t writing for you, and thank god for that. 

What’s weird is that he’s wearing the VR goggles the whole time, and he’s just seeing fat old guys humping (which is also hotttt).

To be fair, few can resist the raw sexual energy of Bob Taft (Senior).  You know he’s bad for you, but when he crosses his legs and exposes a little glimpse of sock garter, you’re already done for.