It does seem rather odd that the promotional stuff for the show appears to be totally unaware that there are, you know, people already living there.

I recognize where you're coming from, but in my dialect, "guy" really is a gender-neutral term. It may have started out gendered, but it's used indiscriminately in my area by people of all genders, ages, socioeconomic classes, etc. to refer to everybody else, there's no masculine implications. As a woman myself, I…

The Chupathingy is indeed very important.

On my dad's side of the family, we have some Polish immigrants. When building up my family tree, I found records in the 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 censuses. With different names each time. Stanislaw is Stani is Stanley, Everett is Evart is Emil, Herbert is Rupert and Wubertum...

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize this was a meeting of the Dour Faces club. No making silly jokes are allowed for this Super Serious Website about Super Serious Things. We can never ever poke fun at things we think are cool or are excited about, either.

Man, they are pretty weird, aren't they?

All seven lols were vitally important to ensure his message got across properly. Six was just too few, and eight? Don't be ridiculous, we're being serious in here.

Plus we got all those nice iron and copper mines, and Lake Superior is very pretty. We definitely came out on top.

Cinco de Mayo (which is NOT Mexican Independence Day, that's in September) is the celebration of a Mexican victory over French forces in 1862, even—the whole France-Mexico thing was a very big deal in the 19th century.

All of them.

Wouldn't a fake show be the best thing ever? It'd be hilarious. I would watch every episode.

As a programmer (so... theoretically in the same ballpark as a hacker? Security is not really my bailiwick, though), I would actually love to be on this show, purely to see just how much bull I could peddle with a straight face before they figured out I was making everything up.

What struck me about this was the self-correcting stuff—when the goshawk brushed something, it didn't even stagger it, it just instantly corrected its course. That seems to be pretty hard for unmanned vehicles—once they get thrown off, it's hard for them to retain their balance. But it looks awesome, how casual the…

That seems like a pretty difficult assertion to back up... certainly there's a lot of Christian themes throughout the book, but actively based on the New Testament? Who's the Son of God, where's the Church?

You can buy empty lots in Saginaw for $150, though, if it's adjacent to property you already own. That one's true. (or at least it was—I'm not sure if they're still offering them, actually)

But do you or do you not have a family of Irish ninjas living near Cumberland?

Well, a large percentage of people living in Quebec are monolingual French speakers. Probably over 50%. And the overwhelming majority are French speakers even if they're multilingual.

My brother-in-law's from Connecticut... the first time he saw Lake Michigan, it took him a very long time to process that yes, that is actually a lake, not an ocean, and it's aaaaall freshwater. He was just like "but it looks like an ocean!"

True, highly entertaining story:

"Marquette"? "Large"? I understand these words separately, but together, I just don't understand!