While this interpretation seems sound, I think for most people ‘to be honest’ is analogous to ‘now that I think about it more deeply’. I get the impression that people tend to use the phrase when they’re reflecting on, questioning or refining their own beliefs.

Nick Offerman / Ron Swanson (it’s futile to distinguish the two) is awesome. A GQ interview with Chris Pratt mentioned that the two Parks & Rec friends regularly exchange photos of their bathroom excreta. When the GQ reporter raised the issue with Offerman, he had this to say:

iPadlock?

I’ve tried it with a laptop on a heavy duty music stand — quite like the change, but I can’t use it for more than about 45 mins.

That’s a rather negative thing to say :)

Imagine how awesome this will be once a portable device is invented so that we can avail ourselves of this on the move?!?!

Amy Poehler for Walter Peck?

A spectacularly self-centered rant. Friedman is conflating ‘this ruined sci-fi’ with ‘this has made my career more challenging’.

Were you forged in the fires of Mount Doom?

Are you a Weeping Angel?

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DaveHax deserves a MacArthur Genius Grant for this.

#0 — Subcontract to DC.

This movie is preposterous — in real life, The Rock would simply hold the two tectonic plates together with his bare hands.

“Since it keeps so well in the fridge...”

Causal. Read the study. Corroborated in multiple studies since.

Lesser known internationally than Tesla? Yes, much lesser known.

Three-name monikers were awesomely august, until so many famous 20th century murderers appropriated the idea. :(

No love for Brunel? He was basically the Tony Stark of the Victorian Age.