Concur. I use my kindle for reading fiction unless it's a particular long book (200 page sci-fi type stuff). I have to read my non-fiction science books and lengthy fic with actual pages so I can easily scan back and forth to re-check some earlier point made. Looove being in the presence of a lot of books and I…

My sister has an old 19th century printing press. I'm way into that for just that reason. It's something real, tactile, and requiring the care of individually placing each piece of type. Generally just small stuff, e.g., I have a framed alphabet of author's names (Austen, Bronte, Chaucer…), just as something nice to…

My favorite fictional satan is the original. He gives awareness to humans and offers food and water to a poor guy wandering in the desert. Meanwhile that other guy is laying waste to cities (turning people into pillars of salt for the awful crime of looking back), murdering the first born (despite not allowing pharaoh…

Gotta go against the grain on this one: this contest prize is heaven to me. Seeing Radiohead live* and the opportunity to pick Ed Norton's brain? Does Natalie Portman show up afterward to say she likes me too?

Can we just make the Van Damme project a TV adaptation of Street Fighter?

You guys can snatch up what you will. Personally, I gotta catch 'em all!

By "snatches up" I assume Hughes meant "catches." Missed opportunity.

Upvoted for the mere mention of Dara.

"…of course I did, it's 4:30"

Functional Fixedness: An inability to perceive a new use
for an object previously associated with some other purpose; adversely
affects problem solving and creativity.

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins the movie by telling you how it
ends. Well, I say there are some things we don't want to know.
Important things!

'To hell with the turtles!'

What's a Chachi?

Leslie Jones for The Doctor.

You mean the guy who had an ongoing creepy attraction to his daughter? Oh, wait…

Rep from California: "Trump may perhaps have hands slightly smaller than average. I am not concerned with it."

From all the 726 episodes of Star Trek I put The Offspring from TNG number 1. I'm biased towards the topic as a cognitive development researcher, but a damn fine episode.

I wish I could miss him.

I miss Korra.

Ditto. This seems like a good idea in principle, yet half baked. It needs more variables. Too few combinations to be interesting.