I think Williams was fine, and unlike D'Angelo I suspect the reason for cutting some of his lines had less to do with the actor than with those lines not really being the best dialogue the Coens ever wrote and not having anything to do with the rest of the movie. I just saw it again, and although I can't be sure of…

Well, this isn't exactly an important part of the plot (and even less so in the director's cut where they dropped this part of Meurice's dialogue), but the song isn't supposed to be the typical music one would hear in Marty's crappy bar— it's Meurice's song that he puts on when he gets the chance, at one point…

Yeah, cutting the cigarette in the boar's mouth was the only director's cut change I kind of regretted.

A few reasons:
1. Ned had barely met Catelyn at that point. It was an arranged marriage, which only later developed into a loving and trusting relationship.
2. Ned takes promises extremely literally, so if he promised Lyanna not to tell anyone, he won't tell anyone.
3. Telling Catelyn wouldn't necessarily be a kindness.…

I can't find the link, but there was an interview with the show's science advisor— a very nice guy who had no problem with the fact that sometimes they would follow his notes about what was or was't vaguely physically possible, and sometimes they wouldn't— where he said they asked him about the atmosphere jump and…

I'm surprised there haven't been (as far as I can tell) any reissues of his collections of drawings in the last 40 years. They're exquisitely rendered, and pretty fucked up in just about any way you can think of— just doing a Google image search for his name gives a fair idea of where he was coming from.

I'm not all that tuned in, and I don't know the two that you know, and no one's going to agree on who's worth reading anyway. I'll just say that I like Diáz and Lethem a lot; the late Katherine Dunn is famous for the (totally unapologetically fantasy) novel Geek Love, which just about everyone loves except me; and…

If you're looking for PKD influence, Amnesia Moon has that for sure (and is one of my favorites). Girl in Landscape does in a different way— that is, along the lines of Martian Time-Slip in that it involves a space colonization effort that's implausibly easy, and aliens who are sort of passively there to highlight the…

"many mainstream authors actually are writing in genre without acknowledging it" … "their works get reclassified as literary fiction"

"Write her off entirely"? I can't imagine doing that because of anything a writer said in an interview— there are plenty of authors whose books I love who have said dumb things about literature.

And R.A. Lafferty and John Sladek, who have never been claimed by any literary tribe other than science fiction.

Yep. He went through a very successful puberty after which he was unrecognizably un-dorky (sort of the Neville Longbottom effect)… then to play Guilfoyle he sort of re-dorkified in a more sinister style.

Huh, I did not know it had that association, but that may be because I used to know a whole lot of Ren Faire people.

Here's where I have to confess to a bunch of strangers on the Internet that I'm an idiot, because I loved Martin Starr in Freaks and Geeks and never realized until this week that that's the same guy. Worse, I recently rewatched three episodes of Freaks and Geeks with my wife and told her that a different kid on that…

I had a little bit different take on it. Attraction is irrational but when you see someone's face you usually know pretty fast whether you like it or not. Elizabet just hadn't ever gotten a good look at Dinesh (presumably she was getting a blurrier picture) and when she did, he wasn't her type— that doesn't mean he's…

My previous job used 3 for Java, 4 for Python, 2 for XML. Why? No reason. Any damn thing you can think of, there will be some person who prefers to do that thing, and if that person happens to get to write the style guide, that's what the standard is.

However, there are programming languages, most notably Python, that rely on indentation to determine the meaning of the code. I'm not sure whether spaces vs. tabs matters for those languages – probably not

The episode did gloss that over, but I figured that was because they were already pushing the limit of stuff non-programmer viewers couldn't possibly care about, plus there's no need to point out how Richard is being even more unreasonable.

Not that it makes much difference to Big Head's level of doofosity, but but I figured that the pool-moving thing was not so much his idea as something that someone (effortlessly) convinced him was necessary. I mean, we may never know, but the way he described the whole process to the business manager was the same way…

I don't really care that the idea was never mentioned again— it's not the kind of thing that would have ongoing plot ramifications unless they had tried real hard to come up with some. I mean, the Cylons may or may not be able to tell individual Viper pilots apart, but except for maybe Starbuck there's no reason why…