"It's ringing, goddammit! Shoving a gun into my side isn't going to make it ring any faster."

Ugh. I hated the Helicarrier stuff, and the NYC bit was waaaaaay too long. I mostly didn't bother to watch during the NYC bit. I probably missed some sight gags or whatever, but it burned me out on spectacle.

The Bechdel Test was a one-line gag that has become this strange sacred cow of progressive fiction. It's definitely a useful sanity check, but no three-bullet-point test is going to be suitable for ranking the progressiveness of fiction. The Bechdel Test isn't a bar that you need to pass for progressive credibility,…

Avengers was like 4lbs of fun in an 8lb bag. Oddly, the least fun parts of the movie were the action sequences. They were just so loooooooooong. That Helicarrier scene still makes me angry.

This is why I buy my comics directly from Comixology. I can still read them on my iOS device just fine, and Apple doesn't get to take a cut of the proceeds.

It's not the singularity which kills you, it's the gravity gradient. You'd need a supermassive black hole, like the sort at the center of a galaxy, and you'd need to spit it up such that the Kerr singularity is a sufficiently large radius that you'll never have to cross a gravity gradient large enough to spaghettify…

A POI episode entitled "Lethe"? That can't be good for anyone. I'm assuming it's the Machine that's taking a dip in that particular river, which would be interesting. I'm fearing that it's actually going to be an amnesia episode, which would be terrible. Even if the number-of-the-week is the amnesiac.

For me, it's just that my nostalgia for the book can't overcome the fact that the book isn't actually very good.

I get the sense that episodes are going to get a lot more complicated, as we discover that the characters are pawns in the Machine's game. And while the Machine is smarter and more powerful than anyone… it's young, it's unwise, and it's going to make mistakes.

It was a great show- and it's terribly overrated. The cult status its achieved is completely undeserved.

Tomato ketchup has been the standard, at least in the west, since the mid-19th century. The original ketchup was closer to modern fish-sauce. This doesn't change the fact that for a huge swathe of the 20th century, American cooking avoided spices. You can find recipes from the 50s in which the entire spice content is…

In American cuisine, ketchup was once considered extremely spicy. Basically, nobody ate food until about 30 years ago.

Cadbury is owned by Hershey. Or was it Mars? Regardless, Cadbury is American chocolate. Sorry we ruined it on you.

I'd probably eat most of that. Sounds like fun.

It's so painfully obvious that I can't believe I didn't think of that.

Of course he does. And of course it is.

Spoiler Alert: Harrison Ford is his grandfather! What a twist!

That only works for non-mammals below the conversion threshold. All 40lb+ mammals can convert from active Kellis-Amberlee. Further, zombies can rebuild lost tissue from consuming meat. A well fed zombie can stay around for a good long time.

That only works for non-mammals below the conversion threshold. All 40lb+ mammals can convert from active Kellis-Amberlee. Further, zombies can rebuild lost tissue from consuming meat. A well fed zombie can stay around for a good long time.