I liked Dr. Strange, the first Thor movie (can’t comment on #3, as I saw it on a plane which meant it was postage-stamp sized screen and the flight attendants didn’t even bother to offer anybody headphones/earbuds), and could not get into Guardians at *all*.

I’m thinking there is some kind of morals clause in his employment contract - Harvard isn’t dumb (well, maybe...) - which could give reason for kicking his ass to the curb pension-wise.

I am SO glad my kid’s advisor is a woman. And yes, this could happen with a woman as well, but the advisor seems to be pretty happy with her life and just had her third kid.

I.... don’t remember that part. Which book?

This should go well for dobby....

I looked at that website. I’m not sure I’d take them as gospel truth.

Probably a local fish market....

I was lucky enough to get away with just a huge adrenaline rush when doing a stream survey in AK. I walked around a curve of the stream and a BIG male sea otter was sunning itself, having a nice little snooze.

So.... reason. Most animals don’t like you getting up close into their face, and probably abruptly. It’s called instinctive reaction.

Kinda O/T but to me still pertinent. Reading about Ursula Le Guin’s death had me remembering my (brief) interactions with her. One thing she did say was that while the Studio Ghibli movie from her Earthsea books was lovely to look at, the plot made her unhappy. VERY unhappy. It was made by the son, Goro, not Miyazaki…

Other than her, I didn’t recognize any of the other “celebrities”...

Well, being 61, I guess I prove your point. I liked the show. It was something different and interesting, and I first stumbled across it at a remote field site in AK. This meant we had something fun to listen to out there in the olden dayz (no electricity except a solar panel to charge our radio to talk to town).

Sure you were gonna retire back then, bitch.

Well, she and her staff learned from the “best”...

Not where I live. They’ve been around for AGES.

Shit! Don’t mention this to my SO!!! He’d go for it.

While I think, “What the fuck is this person doing telling me what to buy!?”

The one that gob-smacked me was the guy who insisted on having five or six bathrooms. For two people. WTF?

Where?

Someone told me you had to have already been in the process of buying a house before you get on a show like that. Dunno if it’s true or not...