I completely misread the title. I was expecting her to play the part of the POTUS’ spouse, Santa Claus. Color me disappointed.

Thanks for the response! Keep up the awesome job that everyone at io9 does, Jill.

I'm curious, how much lead time do you have to write your review? I love that I can read your write-up of the episode immediately after the episode airs, but I'm wondering when you are given access to view the episode yourself.

Can I be Greedo? I swear I have poor reflexes!

I’m shocked that I never thought to pronounce Rahne so it sounds more like pain than yawn. It very nearly has gasted my flabber!

Time to pick a nit: the video is 83 seconds long. Still nice, though!

They offered up the portmanteau ‘ship name of “Donnie” in the Talking Dead. Cute, but I’m partial to “Caryl,” though mainly due to the inevitable confusion it would cause.

I believe you meant THAC0. I’ll show myself out now.

Watch that Shazam clip. At the end Zachary Levi gives a refreshing take on the whole “Brie Larsen’s Captain Marvel vs Shazam” nontroversy. (Wow, I must say that I like that portmanteau!)

If you use Chrome, install the Good Place extension. It replaces expletives with “fork” and the like.

Is that Hamill or Rob Liefeld? I never noticed a resemblance until I saw that picture!

Time to correct the correction, hehe. Stronghold Games publishes Terraforming Mars, while Stonemeier Games publishes another popular game, Scythe. I own both games, and am a big fan!

“As banes of my existence go it’s pretty minor.” Fixed.

That’s a great price on the Firefly game. It’s a really well-constructed game, and while being familiar with the show will add to the nuance of the game, it is in no way a requirement. If you get this, make sure you have a large table on which to play it, and I recommend buying a card sorter to help wrangle the…

That’s a great price on the Firefly game. It’s a really well-constructed game, and while being familiar with the…

I have a Nexus 6, and use a PIN along with Trusted Locations. I’ve turned on the Trusted Face feature, but can’t seem to get it to work. I’m trying not to read anything into that.

178 undecillion years. (That's a lot of zeroes, folks.)

I'm currently reading Oryx and Crake, the first in the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. I received the last 2 books for Christmas, and am really enjoying the way the story is unfolding in a non-linear fashion. I still can't really tell you what it is about, per se, but if you're familiar at all with Atwood,…

That cover is from sometime in the late 80's, at earliest. Keeping things anal. :)

It gave me the option after I added it to my cart, I think. Either that or it was during the checkout process, before submitting payment information.

It gave me the option after I added it to my cart, I think. Either that or it was during the checkout process,…

Easily the best price I've seen for a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer, and you can purchase the 3-year warranty for about $17. Now, the only issue is finding a place to put the darned thing. Mrs. Robdalajara will love it, but at the same time I'm anticipating her being a little upset that I went over on our Christmas…

Easily the best price I've seen for a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer, and you can purchase the 3-year warranty for about…