We cross-posted with the same idea.

Reboots of '80s movies.

This is how I introduced powers of 10 and scientific notation in my math classes. It gives a good idea how to wrap your head around large (and small) numbers.

This image is kind of unsettling. It's like watching NASCAR with airplanes.

If you're messing with long division, you're messing with me.

Or The Road, for that matter.

That is absolutely not a mullet. The hair is too long in the front.

I'm expecting Terminus to be the TV version of Alexandria.

Pirates of Dark Water was going to be my choice. I don't think I will die happy without getting closure on that story.

There was so much potential in that show. It died too soon.

Only Star Trek has succeeded, based on some brand loyalty.

The foul language can be pretty off-putting for some people. I did post a YouTube video of the final wedding scene to the course Blackboard site, as that was pretty clean. At least now the student will understand the reference, and if she wants to watch Spaceballs on her own, she can. I think the entire movie is on…

I use "short, short version" in my lectures. On Wednesday, I was trying to remind myself which movie it came from, and I answered my question aloud. One of the students (a high school dual-credit student) said "There's a movie called 'Spaceballs'?" I felt ancient in that moment.

The marketing for GotG will hopefully keep the movie out of the Barsoom Crater. The marketing for John Carter assumed that everybody knew the story from the books, and never gave a non-fan of the material (basically everybody) a reason to see the movie. It looks like Marvel is smart enough to know that nobody knows…

I'm using a trackball right now. I bought it at a yard sale for $2. They're comfortable and great for tight work spaces.

To quote my grandfather, "Technology is only obsolete when it no longer meets your needs." He owns several Macs, and still has a Apple II to read some of his older floppies. His father's memoirs were written on the Apple II and stored on floppy disks.

I really want the scene after that one illustrated.

Here is more on dieselpunk.

I had the same thought.

...thus if you write a comic about, say, how a guy overcomes a physical handicap to direct a movie which inspires America to beat the Nazis, then it can be adapted into a real movie and win pretty easily.