This is so wrong. I’m a physicist so I have some authority in this area. First of all, this is not “without particles.” Light is a particle. In fact, it is a quantum of the electromagnetic field so electricity is also involved. Second, quantum teleportation is not at all the “kind we are familiar with in science…

Use salted butter for your “snacking butter” for reasons that should be obvious. Stick unsalted in the fridge and use it for cooking.

I have an XPS 13 since everyone recommends it. There’s one important thing that nobody will tell you -- just like Apple, it uses a chipped charger. If you’re at work when you realize you left yours at home, and you think “Well, I’ll just plug it into this here USB port,” it will pop up a message that you have to use a…

If it isn’t for everybody, then it isn’t for anybody. And bad taste is not limited to this one event. Stop by Christmas sometime.

Doesn’t seem that big a deal. What IS a big deal is the Intel has the worst cooler attachment mechanism in the history of time. I’ve lost count of the number of times an Intel box has instantly shut down, and when I look inside, yep there it is: cooler popped off, cpu overheated. For most of us out here, it puts the…

It is fashionable for critics to hate the thing they like.

Ragnar Lodbrok in space. What’s not to like?

There is exactly one allegation of anti-Semitism, the one you linked to, and it is a stretch. Some people persist in looking for ghosts under the bed. The fact that this is executive produced by J. J. Abrams is likely the reason why anyone with any sense has ignored that allegation. I mean, seriously. Do you honestly…

I can find exactly one such criticism, from Philissa Cramer of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, reprinted in the Jerusalem Post. The argument goes in its entirety: “Psychopath serial killer of black people has a Jewish last name. This reminds me of when people used to accuse Jews of using the blood of gentiles to make…

I have that pen. It’s a pretty good pen. Until you’ve had it for a couple of years and the lid won’t stay on anymore. My other pens have a screw-on cap and last (literally in once case) a century. The Lamy Safari snaps on and sooner or later the plastic ring it snaps over erodes sufficiently for it to come off in your…

I have that pen. It’s a pretty good pen. Until you’ve had it for a couple of years and the lid won’t stay on…

Well that was worth sacrificing astronomy to. DSL in space.

1. Atticus, at least, remembered the shoggoths so blithely allowing the team to return from town in the dark was implausible. That was a misstep.

Then you missed some funny shit.

Well that won’t last long. Either people will ignore it in droves and McCarthy will get fired, or Viacom will disappear up its own ass.

I don’t get the mac and cheese one. Make from scratch is trivially easy, you can use whatever mix of cheeses you like (I like to add a bit of gruyere and aged gouda), whereas Kraft is just salt in a box. The “cheese” is the same thing they fed to GIs in World War II and Korea.

Mispronouncing a name is not a goddamn microaggression. Mine is mispronounced and misspelled all the time adn I don’t get my knickers in a twist over it. Well, at least I know who isn’t worth reading.

It wouldn’t be good if it didn’t have someone bitching about how bad it is.

“Forest argues that by capturing the infinite data of everything,”

But Archer got his kid a tattoo.

Star Trek = Final Space?