My brother and I grew up with guns. We lived in a rural area and would go target shooting in the back yard. I have no personal interest in owning a gun at this point in my life, but am quite aware that it’s not incompatible with otherwise liberal views.

But also not kidding that the rest of my family are crazy Bircher …

Nah. His politics have moderated quite a bit. He’s still Christian, but he left his church a few years ago because they’re anti-gay rights and he’s pro. He hates Trump. His current wife (of the last ~2 years) is a complete hippy. He does still own guns though. (Speaking from personal family experience, not all gun…

The author of the short story’s given name is not romanized as Ryünosuke; it’s Ryūnosuke or Ryûnosuke. The macron or circumflex indicates that its a long vowel. You don’t use umlauts or diaereses for Japanese, even if you want to indicated the second of the same vowel starts a new syllable (or is the start of a new…

First, do watch the original; it’s a very good movie and only 88 minutes long. It’s unclear who is telling the truth about any of it. Each person tells a self-serving / self-aggrandizing version of the story that has some germ of what probably happened (we’re never shown the actual event) but is heavily colored by…

In Japan, the PC Engine (10 million) handily outsold the MegaDrive (4 million) but the Super Famicon eclipsed them both (17 million). The TurboGrafx-16 (as the PC Engine in an unnecessarily large case was branded in the US and Europe) was a flop though. I’ve liked a lot of the games on the PC Engine Mini though,…

Gross ad and bad ripoff of a scene I already hated in The Meaning of Life.

But the Super FX2 GPU on the cartridge really made the graphics on Yoshi’s Island pretty amazing compared to earlier SNES games.

They not only license to Nintendo, but after they pulled out of the hardware market they actually signed several multi-year, multi-game exclusive licenses to Nintendo for Sonic games.

Also, I’d like to get you started on the TurboGrafx-16. I never had one nor knew anyone who did, but I got a PC Engine Core Grafx Mini…

Generally when you see an actor or director described as a “journeyman” it means that they work regularly and do a good job but aren’t a big name or don’t make a strong mark. It certainly can come across kind of insultingly, like people will call someone like Ron Howard a journeyman director, as in “he makes a lot of…

Guest is a Baron, but he was one of the ones who voted for the 1999 reform that kicked hereditary Lords out of the House of Lords (he legitimately thinks it should be reformed as a democratically elected, more Senate-like body). So, it’s not like he has a ton of baron-y things to do.

As of right now, it’s all over my Hulu landing page. They very much want me to know it’s back. But it’s a day later and I didn’t check yesterday.

FXX is owned by Disney, just like Hulu, so it’s not likely to appear elsewhere. In fact, this season they’re releasing each episode onto Hulu next day (and they really hype the “FXX on Hulu” vertical), so even less likely to change.

No doubt there are some Boomers that crossed from one camp to the other, but I suspect that most of them are the same as they ever were. The anti-war, civil rights protesting contingent were a minority, but were good at making news and being seen in the 60s and 70s. The scummy majority of them became more obvious as…

True. My point was essentially, “you may already be familiar with a case like this that got a lot of media attention and it’s a thing that happens regularly”.

My understanding is that it has been verified that he does, but he transferred it to a shell company for tax dodging purposes and it was actually a much smaller percentage than he initially made it out to be.

This is basically how Steve Bannon makes money off Seinfeld, a show he had no hand in making. He bought shares of the production company that owns the show when it was up for sale and he was part of the team that managed the sale.

As the parent of an elementary student, I can confirm there are still book fairs. (Maybe not this school year though.) They also send home newsprint Scholastic flyers every month.

Not sure where they got off to, but my wife and I both gave our daughter “Book It!” pins that we had in boxes from our childhood stuff.

I’ve seen a similar thing to the “Liquor Hut” with a defunct Hollywood Video, which is now “Hollywood Wine & Spirits” (although the building is not a distinctive shape like a Pizza Hut). At first they just took the “Video” part off the sign and replaced it with “Wine & Spirits”, but eventually they put up a much…

That comes down to a philosophy of what you want grades to mean. Opinions vary.

The one you like, where you use grades to rank order students on a normal curve of expected grades, is decidedly old school and in my opinion, dickish. I signed up for a calc class once where the prof was practically salivating telling us ho…

BBC had an odd mix of not having a department in charge of archiving film and wiping tapes because 1) they were too expensive not to reuse and 2) Actors Equity contracts that stipulated that shows could only be re-run four times. (They feared that reruns would keep new shows from being made.) Plus just a general…

Fortran still gets used all the time, and even gets updates; Fortran 2018 is the most recent standard. In fact, right now there are some people panicking because there isn’t a viable Fortran compiler[1] for AARCH64 (64 bit ARM, which is what Apple is switching their Macs to starting next year). There’s a lot of code…