I gave up when they started unashamedly pimping Microsoft crap. All of a sudden there were under-powered Microsoft tablets everywhere, and when someone in the real world say, “I’m going to Google that” (not defending Google in the least, it’s just that the term has entered the common lexicon,) a Hawaii-Five-O character…

So, next week?

I was consistently blown away by his performance in Halt and Catch Fire, and then I was reminded that he was one of the best things in Pushing Daisies. And now I learn he’s a cat person.

That was my thought, too. The old Top Gear convinced me those things are well nigh indestructible. It’s a shame I can’t buy one, or the equivalent, in Canada.

I saw ANH first at a local mall on opening night, but went to the biggest theatre (at the time) in downtown Toronto to see Empire in 70mm. The local theatres were all 35mm.

The Tauntaun and the AT-ATs were actually rod puppets, animated using a process called ‘go motion’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_motion#Go_motion

Did you get a bit of vertigo during the snow speeder swoops? I remember feeling a bit of an IMAX effect during the sequence when the snow speeders were out looking for Luke and Han. It was pretty cool.

Sorry, no. Not according to Wikipedia.

Fcuk. I remember being corrected on my pronunciation by Ford staff at a car show. They said it was, “Mur-Cur”. Snobs.

They have also made chewing gum illegal. Check out the article William Gibson wrote for Wired, years ago: “Disneyland with the Death Penalty.”.

Wow. You’re really going to pluck union-busting as the worst of Reagan’s crimes? You could have pulled out half-a-dozen worse offenses, like Iran-Contra, for starters.

Watch this and realize what wimps these guys are compared to guys like Ken Miles, Jim Clark, John Sertees, and the like.

Yeah, shouldn’t he have matured about 10 years ago?

There was the series The Return of the Saint which ran from 1978 to 1979, and starred Ian Ogilvy, who bears more than a passing resemblance to Roger Moore.

The payload bay of the Space Shuttle is the exact size of the KH-11 spy satellite. 

Do you guys get Hudson and Rex in the States. It’s a cop show, set in St. John’s, Newfoundland, about a police detective and his dog. And the dog is wonderful. Just the best reason to watch the show.

The technobabble trope goes back well before Voyager. Personally, I think it started with Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who. Pertee himself supposedly adlibbed the line. “I’ll reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!”, which he used whenever he needed to hack a piece of tech.

Wow. I think I just watched the best Arrowverse episode ever. It was so tight, so twisting, and all the performances were top-notch.

My Dad rode ‘big’ bikes in the U.K. in the fifties. I think he had a Vincent, but I can’t find a picture of it, so here’s a pic of him on his Norton Dominator instead.