Lee got an amazing story, and it's amazing in part because he died. It's the zombie apocalypse, major characters gotta die. I'm curious if they'll have the same gumption when it comes time for Clementine to die…

I prefer books that contain "high weirdness", which in sci-fi, usually means heavy future tech. I'm a big fan of Greg Egan's stuff, too. I want braincrunch.

It's not technically over yet, but Jean Le Flambeur is running probably the most daring (and surreal) heist ever.

Then again, it doesn't exactly portray Kentucky in a nice light. I'm still sad that they moved shooting from Western PA to CA. Yes, WPA isn't Kentucky, but it's way closer than CA.

I feel like that intimacy was under-exploited in the film. It's deeply creepy, and far scarier than any of the monsters they were fighting. I feel like people who have been drifting together for a long time would all be like those twins in The Shining.

I write my own documentation, thank you very much. Humanities nerds and tech nerds are not two foreign camps that are at war, there is not a zero-sum game in humanity's realm of achievement.

Once something gets repeated enough, it's hard to tell where it starts. It's good advice, regardless of who says it.

Actually, that quote doesn't originate with Joss Whedon. Near as I can tell, it started with Billy Wilder.

It's built around scale because it's built around mass manufacturing. Nobody's making bespoke iPhones in China. They're making iPhones by the million. That's the bulk of oceanic shipping.

I don't think this has much market for cargo. The economics of cargo shipping are built around scale, not speed. Unless this is significantly cheaper than air travel, which I find doubtful, and can operate regardless of the weather (also doubtful), air shipping is still going to rule for situations where speed matters.

For each mystery science resolves, a thousand fresh ones are revealed. We don't want fewer mysteries- we want more!

Each time he handed someone an envelope, he said, "Excuse me while I whip this out."

With these glasses, Mr. Little is looking a little like Giancarlo Esposito, which means that I imagined this entire special being done by Gus Fring, which lends a different kind of horrible menace to it.

My New Year's resolution is to fail to keep my New Year's resolution, just like it was last year. Maybe this year I'll get it right!

Maybe it's a "Witch Doctor" movie. I'd be cool with that.

Without digging it up, I recall an instance where the owners of the property were parents of a drug dealer (not a kid selling baggies of pot to friends, but an actual drug dealer), and they did lose their property, or at least had a protracted court battle to retain it.

In many jurisdictions, the state will take any property used in the commission of a crime. This logic is also how parents can lose their house if their kid sells a baggie of pot to a friend.

Plug in USB, it's upside down. Flip it over, try again. Still upside down. Flip over a third time, plug in. Works.

I would have loved it if Ivo pulled a Magician's Force instead. "Choose who lives or dies." "Shado!" *Ivo kills Shado, and Ollie learns a valuable lesson about grammar.*

I am not a Herbert.