agreed 100%. there was actually a moment when I literally was not sure whether Link had been replaced with a mannequin.

so normally I might fight you on this, BUT I just watched the 2009 BBC miniseries of Emma, and so I’m especially open to anything Jonny Lee Miller right now.

if video games have taught me anything, the best way to find random gold is to smash a lot of flowerpots.

that does suggest a potential deterrent to future thieves, though: label all buckets of valuables “Kidneys” or “Cadaver Corneas.”

I think we can’t assume that he’s representative, though. That original host was from well before the park opened. Ford says (to Bernard, I think) that he and Arnold spent 3 years perfecting the hosts before the park even opened. They started passing the Turing Test after the first year (which the very robotic Old…

He’s always looking for the next ex-Mrs. Malcolm!

Plenty of people write thank-you notes AFTER having a baby and being discharged from the hospital, but you don’t have to show up with anything. 

then I shall warn you so you don’t fall into the trap I blithely walked into while catching up on other CW shows using their app:

this is, if not my greatest fear today, VERY far up the list.

great point. we do it more often with race than with social class, but we do still do it. sigh.

This whole situation is frustrating, but yeah, this is the part that seems extra-strange to me. Maybe just because I grew up near LA and so I have actual concrete images of neighborhoods in my mind, rather than abstract ideas like Compton=gang. I guess if you’re looking at a map, it’s harder to tell that there’s a…

I’ve remembered and then re-forgotten that fact several times, and each time I hear it again I just feel so happy for both of them. I’m not totally sure why, but I guess because they both seem like cute, cool people who are doing a great job of staying off the gossip radar?

he wrote his way in

my daughter is currently obsessed with the Tintin posters we have in the hallway. combined with her current hair situation, it was a pretty obvious call.

thank you! I thought I was cured, but apparently I still have some lingering trigger phrases.

it IS. though nothing is as hard as foaming soy milk. there was a time when my two least favorite words were “soy cappuccino.”

the writer of the US Weekly article doesn’t understand DST because he doesn’t understand anything. like the fact that your favorite Friends episode only takes up 23 minutes, not a whole extra hour. or literally anything about to-go breakfast-food establishments:

I hear that tacos are great for hangovers. Hope you can find a truck nearby that sells them!

not that logic matters to someone as determined at Curt is to only consider evidence that fits with his assumptions, but:

tangentially related: my friends and I (psychologists) refer to the Pooh stories as “A Children’s Illustrated DSM-5*” for the way each character exemplifies one or more mental disorders. e.g.: