Funny thing: As a federal employee that happened to adopt a baby girl in September, I was then able to write to my congressman and senators, thanking them for the paid paternity leave that was the government shutdown in October.

We didn't include the movie that Charlie and I watched on our first date — the amazing Rollerblade, with the rollerskating nuns who control a dystopian future run by an angry puppet.

'nybble' was a slang term for 4 bits; being half of a 'byte', therefore 'nybble' ('y' substituting for 'i')

There seems to be a lot of confusion about how soap works and what it does. Soap is a surfactant, meaning the molecule has a branch that is polar, and a branch that is not. The reason that oil and water don't mix is because water is a polar molecule and oil is not. The water essentially segregates itself from the…

You ever wonder why they call it climate change nowadays instead of global warming? its because the general heating of the earth isn't the only effect our greenhouse emissions are having. Desertification, drastic changes in precipitation magnitude, frequency, and distribution, spread of tropical diseases northward,…

So, as I gleaned it, the whole point that Ellis tried to make from the novel: 80's materialistic cult-ure "this is not an exit"... I got it. I noticed that, while growing up in the 80's, that the baby boom generation had taken a sharp turn to the right and drove away from the whole hippy ethos. But did I really need…

Inglorious basterds.

I scrolled all the way through and can't believe no one posted this. It's body horror about this dude whose body is slowly taken over by metal parts. I tried to watch it as a teenager with some older people and walked out pretty early on when the guy was being sodomized with rebar. I've developed a stronger stomach…

OMG SOMEONE MENTIONED AVIAN ANATOMY!

Is that a trick question? Because you might be Krampus for all I know, in which case the answer would be, "With the tissues filled with tears and band aids filled with blood of the children you beat horribly and deservingly."

Yeah, but all those ways cost WAY more money. Chromecast is $35, which I think we can both agree is "impulse buy" territory. Making it affordable and at a price point that anyone can go out and get one. Also, try showing my mom or the average person how to do all those things using a PC, PS3 or Xbox 360. (I'm not…

Chromecast. Bar none.

Yay, vaguely inappropriate and grotesque Christmas Day post! More!

Yay, beat me to it. Thanks. Yes, Fawlty Towers involves only one ex-Python and therefore does not make the list.

I'm not a writer, actually.

But congratulations on trying to insult me for being thoughtful about what I write and say, you anti-intellectual nitwit. I'm sure you're very proud that your comment doesn't read like you spent very much time thinking about it.

Dad?

Seriously? Do you actually believe that everybody who doesn't get a BA in the humanites is doing it for "short-term and meaningless financial advantage"? That what I do is "spiritually hollowed out" and lacks grace and meaning because it has practical applications?

Any good education teaches you how to learn on your own. It is impossible to learn everything there is to know about anything in just four years.

I write my own documentation, thank you very much. Humanities nerds and tech nerds are not two foreign camps that are at war, there is not a zero-sum game in humanity's realm of achievement.