Not all religions believe that we’re the only life in the universe. Most Americans are sheltered enough to be surprised to learn that most non-US religions have a far greater connection to the universe/cosmos. Buddhism is full of references of life in the universe. The Koran also refers to extraterrestrial life.…

The 12 days of Christmas is still celebrated, just in a different way. For some it is the act of surprising someone with a small gift every day for 12 days leading up to Christmas day.

Wasn’t one of the main points of the movie the fact that Gotham was corrupt from top to bottom? That’s why they made all the fuss about the importance of Dent keeping a clean history?

There are too many great ones to list, but Tales of Bah Sing Se definitely belongs on any top 10 list.

Nissan Xterra for those who want something different with 4x4 (not AWD). They are still everywhere around here even though production stopped in 2015.

Over the years, I realized that the majority of my time helping my parents has been digging up old passwords. Router’s acting up? Let me sit here for 10 minutes while you dig out the piece of paper with the log in info. Need help with your iPhone? I’m sure the password is on a piece of paper somewhere.

Getting to your destination 5 - 10 later is a lot faster than being stuck in a ditch or dealing with an accident. So go slow and allow plenty of room on all sides of your car. Assume the person behind you is going to rear end you. Assume that people will slide through intersections.

That was more believable than all the front wheel drive trucks at the end of the movie.

We’ve made an effort to have one of use home when the kids got home from school. It’s not easy and it’s been a financial sacrifice, but in our case it was worth it. We also have great support from our retired parents. One day a week is “grandpa day” and he takes the kids out after school for a Subway or smoothie until…

We’ve been using RCS (Pixels on Verizon) for a while now and encountered one big drawback. Third party text backup apps like SMS Backup and Restore can’t back up the RCS database. So you’ll like likely lose your messages. Google’s backup might back it up but last time I checked it didn’t do MMS (which is the majority…

Bring back the Xterra. Give it Titan suspension.

It all seemed pretty straightforward to me, except for the part about Cap. Still not sure what happened there.

I was expecting this guy when I saw the headline:

It’s a great little board. Looks like it still runs on SD cards - the achilles heel of the pi since day 1. SD cards are fine for tinkering, but they are far from reliable in a pi. Weak power supplies and skipped shutdown procedures will kill your card. I wonder if the pi4's higher power draw will make this problem…

Aside from the fact that statistical interpretation allows them all to be snapped together... there’s also the small detail that the universe experienced an apocalyptical event. It’s not like school would just start back up the day after the snap. It could have been years before the infrastructure and emotional…

Nice to see them work Ronin into the movie pretty seamlessly. Although, I can’t recall if they specifically called him Ronin. Other than that, the “Hail Hyrda” moment was pure gold.

I think you misunderstood what I said. I didn’t say anything about erasing it. If someone looks different or believes different, try to find common ground and then seek enlightenment from your differences. Or like you said “acknowledge that different kinds of people come from different cultures and backgrounds and…

Phantom Menace Trailer: That moment when you realize that the cool creatures emerging from the mist are just dimwitted comic-relief characters who are going into battle against equally silly droids yelling “roger roger”.

When it comes down to it, most people are “multiracial” even if they don’t look like it. If most people truly knew their ancestry, and the actions of their ancestors, racism would be far less common.

Privacy issues aside, our kids were very excited to do a DNA test and to see their diversity. They’ve been raised to…

When I was a kid I watched a schoolyard fight where one boy basically landed a punch and nearly blinded the other kid. Both kids’ lives were pretty terrible for the next year. Imagine if one of them knew how to properly subdue the other one. A few sore joints and a wounded ego would have been the result.