By the end Sun and Nomi were racing for the top two. I've struggled with a bad temper so Sun's anger control issues felt very real to me.

Stannis has been one of my favourite characters on the show since series 2. That he's commited a morally reprehenisble act doesn't change that.

Stannis is basically Judge Dredd. He has an unswerving loyalty to the law, regardless of whether he wants to do something or not.

All at once my sex life seems more mundane, and I don't have a problem with that.

Meanwhile, I laughed so hard when they introduced Agile and Scrum and SWOT tables. Like the IT Crowd, I feel that Silicon Valley gets the culture and mindset right - and lampoons it mercilessly, and the tech details are less important.

Oh yes, this. Ancillary Justice is one of the best books I've read this decade.

It looked like an awl to me

Hanneman.

One of my best friends was a QA tester for Codemasters. The job was so bad he quit the industry altogether, and eventually became a teacher.

I'm gonna have to say no

Ah, it's not so bad. The company flew me to the UK and put me up in the swankiest hotel I've ever set foot in for a week.

I started a lean six sigma training course today, covering SWOT analysis amongst things. I get back to my hotel room, put on Silicon Valley, and see Jared pulling out the chart. I couldn't stop laughing.

All the surface to air missile batteries Gates had brought in

My favourite moment of his is still from Less than Hero, when the New Justice Team arrive in his office: "Captain Yesterday, Cloberella! MY LIEGE!"

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!

Radio on Internet?

I thought they were quitting for good, swearsies realsies after Mike Saccacia died?

Loved the album as an earnest 16 or 17 year old, and while I've not listened to it in ages, a bunch of the songs (mostly You Learn and Hand in my Pocket) are in rotation on the local classic rock station and they hold up.

I fucking hate that New Radicals song. Especially the whole callign Beck, Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson fakes bit at the end, when the singer was making most of his money churning out disposable pop hits for former boyband stars.

I'm just a poor boy. I tried to rectify this by making fake Calvin and Hobbles strips and selling them on eBay. But that didn't work out as well as I thought it would.