Quick question, please: While in London, in the 80's, I was at a party at which someone brought a keg of beer that tasted like strong iced tea. I left soon after and never caught the type of beer it was. It looked reddish, if I remember. I drank a lot of it and didn’t have a hangover the next day. Was it some kind of…

Never would have guessed that the world of 1984 would come to life in China. Always figured it would be Russia or the USA. Sad thing for the people of China.

9 times out of 10, the script for a movie based on a book is just bad, and usually because the screenwriter thinks his ideas are better than the original author of the book. Well, if his or her ideas are so great, then they should just go write a book and let the public decide. Until then, they should write the script…

No, it’s not worse. It’s exactly the same. Or better, considering you get the same Kindle Reader (that you can also get on a PC) AND you get movies, via whatever viewer you like (Chrome, Netflix, etc.) and most of the apps Kindle (and Google Play with a bit of work) puts out there. So, again, why buy a Paperwhite for…

One click is all you get. Seriously, One Click is all you get. If you are just a gateway to somewhere else, you will only ever get one click, in total. Cheers!

Did they have an amateurs-only division? After all this pro stuff, it actually gets a bit boring. 

Was this the one with (I think) Orson Bean voicing Frodo and singing? Gaaah. I very much disliked his voice and the turning the RotK into a freaking musical. Awful. I don’t remember if I saw that movie at the theater or on tape, but I do remember instantly disliking that movie. Don’t really remember anything else but…

In the 80's, thanks to a resurgence in popularity of the LotR, etc., every book was Elves-this and Elves-that. Real Creativity is such a rare thing. Now, it’s zombies. /sigh. So boring. I will give NF credit for some interesting stuff lately, but this won’t be part of it.

I am a bit surprised that Blizzard is developing anything for the “Casual” crowd as they are completely committed to the “Hardcore” crowd on WoW. Casuals (a title with many definitions) have been shown the door by the last 2 WoW patches so I am quite surprised by the attention to the casual phone crowd. Still, as one…

It’ll be a cold day in Hell when I let Google track my location. Have a nice day.

It’s pronounced “tamales” as no one, absolutely no one, can eat just one. 

This survey should be relabeled to “Which Thin, Flat pizza tastes most like the New England thin, flat pizza?” as that does seem to be the “winning” criteria. There are more than one kind of pizza. The best pizza I ever ate was in a Naples, Italy, city center pizza cafe, fwiw. More like a combo of everything.…

I do not understand how our galaxy, which was formed many billions of years after this mega-thing, is receiving light from this thing, many billions of years later. That would seem to mean that the expansion and the creation of stuff (galaxies, etc.) is happening faster than the speed of light. I would think (guess,…

That is a stupid rule. I think if the ball would go into the stands on the fly, it’s anybody’s ball. I have always understood foul balls to go by that interpretation. Homers should also so if it’s not caught at the home run wall, it should be a home run, imho.

The issue is that people have used the belief in karma to cause more suffering, which goes completely against the idea of karma. That is also known as ignorance. The basic idea is “cause and effect”. As an agnostic, I tend to believe that karma could be true (as opposed to gods, etc.), as cause and effect is an…

If the Chiefs had a defense, they might’ve had a chance to win the game. Please note that since, say, the No-Punt game of the 2003 playoffs, the Chiefs fans have been saying that. God just gave the Chiefs Mahomes knowing full well he was going to rid apart their defense to the point that Mahomes won’t matter in the…

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This if the FIRST, and, might I say, ONLY, time that a show based on a series of best-selling books is actually better than the books due to the writing of the script writers. Well, there was that one HatEotU film, but it was fairly true to its series of Adams’ books. I just hope that they can keep it up. Looks good…

Try it on youtube. I had no sound here but ok on Youtube.

So, of course, it doesn’t work anywhere but on Youtube. Anyone have any idea why?