Since even Elon and Grimes can’t agree how it’s pronounced, I prefer to use the pronunciation that some random Facebook commenter suggested: Sasha Archangel. Partly because it’s an awesome name, but also because it works better than their two totally different versions.

Someone on Facebook pointed out that X-Ash-A could be pronounced as “Zasha” or “Sasha”, meaning it might be “Sasha Archangel”. Which is a really cool name, or it would be if Elon didn’t decide to fucking encrypt it.

Good to know the TARDIS is class 4.

Please check the dictionary before continuing. That is EXACTLY how these words work on planet Earth. Insults don’t have to be directed towards a person or even a living thing, but only living things can take offense to something.

Yes, you can. You can’t *offend* something that doesn’t have feelings, but you can *insult* it. Insults don’t require offense. In fact, here’s a perfect example of the difference: voluntary roasts are full of insults, but result in very little offense.

You’re right: words mean things. And the word “insult” does not have anything in its definition that requires it to be towards a person. I can insult a hat if I think it’s ugly; I can insult a phone if I think it functions terribly; I can insult a car if I think it’s a clunker. Insulting inanimate objects is entirely…

Says the person who just insulted Android as being “shit”...

It depends. Program exit codes use 0 = success, anything else = error. But Booleans use 0=false, 1=true, so if it’s the response from something like a “success” field, then it might be that. In this case, though, I don’t think it’s either of those: my guess is someone just typed 1 as a random string to see if the…

Believe it or not, stuff like this happens all the time. Tests and changes meant to be only internal accidentally end up going into a production environment. A co-worker of mine once meant to change some configuration files for our client testing environment, but accidentally changed them for the production…

I play Minecraft for the automation factor. Redstone, and then modded tech, is so fun to get the creative juices flowing. I’m definitely with you on the “not playing for the end game” front: you can leave PvP and mob combat aside, I’ll just take the creative stuff. (Disclaimer: I’m a software developer, so an engineeri…

So... an app built on the perfectly reasonable assumption that no one will be walking around with 99 cell phones in navigation mode gives ridiculous results when someone does just that? We have a saying for this in software development: GIGO. Garbage In = Garbage Out. Also, duh. If I tell a blind man that my car is…

And so he shan’t ever :)

Agreed... I don’t eve know my own mother’s number, and there are some times I have to stop and think for 10-20 seconds to remember my own.

Dat ending twist, doe. I definitely didn’t see it coming. Also, on first watch I missed the line about “First they turn my apartment into a boys’ dorm...” -- that’s actually an exceptionally important line when establishing how Beth fits into Earth Prime...

I’m not sure what the overall response has been, but I would recommend that you don’t worry about it. Personally, I consider Batwoman the best-written Arrowverse show, and it’s only my second-favorite, rather than top pick, because I prefer the lighter tone of the Flash to the Grimdark of the Batverse. Characters are…

Real0-life plot twist: Goran is actually a time traveler who’s pretending to be an actor on time-travel shows for plausible deniability. I bet he’s been auditioning for Legends of Tomorrow in the shadows...

I mean, if Ray is leaving, I can believe Zari’s gone for good, too :(

I just watched Joker last night for the first time, and I was in tears during the mugging scene (among others). Reading this article sounds exactly like that. That humans beat on each other just because they “want to” or “think they should” is bad enough, but doing it to people for having mental illness? There’s a…

I’m trying hard not to consider what that would mean for the political symbolism of the show, if demons end up running both the Bad Place *and* the Good Place...

I mean, have you seen the Good Place Committee? If the Good Place is anything like them, it will be awful to live there forever. I bet $10 they’ll see how terrible it is, realize they made a huge mistake by reforming the afterlife to get more people in, and rush to try and make another change.