Agreed, love love love love love him, he was especially awesome as the enchanted version, completely creepy.. and then in the real world version, he was somehow *more* menacing.

Oh but it gets so much better... You're missing out not only on Martha, but you're missing out on Donna, which is a crying shame..

Both of those sound like interesting concepts, and far superior to the "i'm going to play nine million hours until I am the strongest of the strong" mindset... Nowadays, I'm not much of a gamer, more of an art nerd, but the whole devotion of time necessary to being a gamer nowadays is the main reason I just don't…

I'm not arguing semantics, I'm not talking about what the term stands for. I'm talking about what the test was designed to measure, and what it was designed to measure was your capacity to learn.

Stop saying "alright"... Almost every section starts with "Alright, let's get to x" or "Alright, now"...

You just need to build a faraday cage for your brain...

Robert Sheehan would be an excellent doctor.. he's ridiculously watchable and entertaining...

Or how about Alan Davies if you want someone older....

Oh genius.. and he could bring back the celery buttonhole! Few men can pull off a decorative vegetable.

Heh, I learned to program basic on a BBC computer in school JUST like the one that opens this. :D

What would be incredibly interesting to me, would be if a supercomputer somewhere could literally take every face on the planet and blend it together, to see what we get.. the actual, average human.. or to prevent youth face shapes skewing (since children have markedly different proportions to adults) everyone over…

You're arguing about intelligence, when what this study is about is IQ scores, something that doesn't actually measure intelligence. It's designed to measure your capacity to learn. Not your educational level, not your intelligence, but your ability to reason.. that's it.. And that's something that doesn't necessarily…

Yeah, places that aren't california :p

Mercy Thompson is a skinwalker... descended from some flavor of American indian, no Asian indians, though.

A big part of any kind of fiction is that it allows us to live vicariously through the characters, and more importantly, learn vicariously through them, without suffering the same pitfalls that they may. I think that genre writing is at least as capable of creating situations for the characters to overcome as straight…

I'm not *overly* fond of hugely muscled men, but I do have to agree with you on the chest hair thing.. bald chested men just seem kind of.. pre-pubescent or too perfect to be hot.. chest hair? rawr.

Not to mention the one that's arguably the toughest and most obscure read.

I don't know, I mean, Zula and Yuxia both have their moments of being in distress, but they also don't ever really rely on the men around them to save them, and the saving is often incidental, or more part of a team effort that specifically the damsel in distress getting saved..

I love Stephenson, own every book he's written, ever.. and even I have to say Anathem was a struggle.. There were moments of brilliance in it, but so much other stuff to wade through I'm not surprised that he's decided maybe he was going in the wrong direction for say, financial and artistic success.. Reamde is so…

Crescendo ending, defn. No weirdness in the ending at all really.