I feel like, if the "X-Files" got a Saturday Morning cartoon about when Mulder and Scully were in the FBI Academy, it would have been this.

I just love Enrico Colantoni. He can be in every episode, for all I care.

I'm Remy Porter, and a few months ago, I quit my straight job to spend more time doing whatever I want. "Whatever I want" includes programming, training others, photography, playing violin, and doing improv.

"I was bullied by the gaming press." HAHAHAHAHA.

Well, I'll strongly recommend that you don't start with Perdido Street Station, which found a new way to annoy me on each page. I only trucked through because everyone raved about it so much. I hated it, and it put me off the author.

It's not troubling- it's WHY we eat them. They're clearly smarter than humans. It's self defense!

And here's the start of a Python script to help puzzle this out.

Why not? They're gods, aren't they? Truth always tells the Truth. So if I ask Truth, "Will Random answer the next question 'da'?", I don't see why Truth would be limited in reply. How would Truth even communicate an inability to answer?

And that's the secret, I think- you can make each question dependent on another god's statement. Go to God A. "If I ask Random a question, and Random answers truthfully, then will God B answer falsely?" That seems to be the right sort of strategy, anyway.

Ignoring the solution to this puzzle for the moment, it has some interesting consequences. For example, let's say that I know who Truth is, and I ask Truth: "Will Random answer my next question truthfully?" Truth is a god, so its omnipotence can answer that question, but that raises some interesting philosophical…

a touch steampunk

Hey, shit-for-brains, do you want to know why the golden age ended? Because you "grew up", and I put that in scare quotes because you obviously didn't. See, most of us, we just got old. We recognize that our golden-tinged nostalgia grows out of the fact that those shows, and our personal development, they lined up in…

I was a little more "Yes yes yes!" only because most of this episode was so dull. Important things happened off camera (Digg & Lyla). Characters are repeatedly told to not go do interesting things (Lances). The villain was dull and uninspired, even if I did appreciate his accent and his greasy hair. With very little…

The moment passed, then passed again.

Even his argument for why you should dress nicely was at least interesting, if not entirely agreeable- women put a lot of work into their appearance, so you should too, just to be fair.

Back in the day, gladiators were frickin' superstars. People need food, but they want entertainment. It doesn't matter what economic model you're using, people are going to reward entertainers beyond what a rational model suggests, simply because people aren't rational.

Why not send an electronic copy of a document and let the recipient decide if they want a hard copy or not? I do not understand the purpose of fax machines in a post-1990s world.

I know this ship has sailed, but let me give you my elevator pitch of how a Fantastic Four movie should work:

I'll lead off with the big project- I'm co-teaching a workshop with Kevin Allison of the Risk! prodcast on how to use storytelling to communicate technical details. The workshop is in Pittsburgh, and should kick some serious ass. I've written a set of essays(1,2,3) to help promote the workshop, and will likely whip up…

I like the idea of the character more than the execution, but we'll see. She can't be more annoying than Adric.