I want that shirt he wears when he gets kicked out of the club. That shirt is amazing.

We have AIs that can hack. That's not particularly hard.

"Which of us is the robot?"

She's said she's taking two years off to raise her kids, which is probably longer than POI will be around.

Holy shit, all of that and I forgot to mention the big project- a participatory algorithmic music installation which will be deployed at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh in May (for an ArtLAB). Depending on how we feel about it, we might pitch it to the Create Festival too.

USS Improvise, my Trek themed improv team, has a show this month and will be performing in "Make Nice Boom", a local comedy cagematch. We're still looking to get this show out on the Con circuit, because it's fucking great.

I have have a bias towards Analog since they're the ones that published my wife's story, "In Perpetuity".

Ripley and Hicks, storming the WY HQ with a bomb vest and space-jockey tech? YES PLEASE. That's the Alien 3 we should have gotten.

Considering your average comic book is 22 pages or so, I think 10 pages is far too generous- I'd give a comic 1-2 pages. Enough to establish the premise and the art style.

I give it… like… ten? I feel like ten pages is generally enough to get a sense of the style and if the story is actually going to go anywhere eventually.

I'm not seeing the problem.

Yep. I did this as a teenager, first with books, and later with early Internet (first with a 3600baud modem, then eventually with a 56k).

Hah! The first movie is the best of the lot. While ESB has a lot to recommend it, it spends too much time on the Force twaddle. If the Force twaddle ever amounted to anything, that might be forgivable, but for all the bumper-sticker mysticism that Yoda spouts, it really does nothing to advance the story or the…

Here's the thing: Classic Who absolutely cannot be bingewatched. It's slow TV, and you have to watch it at a slow pace. One episode every few days (or, if you're patient- once a week) is really the way to go. Even the best, most tightly written serials work better that way.

I really want a movie in the Spelljammer universe. It's such an awesome setting.

Actually, WWI's trenches bred an interesting environment- one which was the bane of generals. The people in the trenches realized that their continued well-being had more to do with the people on the other side than with the generals back home. So for the first act of the war, they actually coordinated to minimize…

Right- but the very idea of the Hobbit films is boring. So that precludes enjoyment. I suppose some people could be entertained by being bored, but those would be exceptional individuals.

Not exactly a selling point. I'll grant Middle Earth its role in creating what we think of as "the fantasy setting", but it's not a terribly interesting iteration on the premise.

I'm bored by the very idea of the Hobbit films. I have yet to watch one, because I can't possibly imagine the point.

There's bad timing, and then there's offensive timing. Bad timing is telling her this while she's dating someone. Offensive timing is telling her this right after she tells you she's moving in with their boyfriend.