I’ve got friends who stuck a keg in their garage fridge and ran a tap line straight into their kitchen. Which is even better! But not something you can do in a condo.

Yeah, right, Topher. A wonderful, magical animal.

God, I hope they do this right. Six episodes, a different and genre-appropriate director for each one, and the complete ignorance of everything that happens after the pilgrims reach the time tombs.

The Hyperloop!

A lot of the issues that I had with it come down to Lee Pace, as Ronan, had more or less nothing to do. A film like that—even if it’s focused on the heroes coming together as a team—still relies on the charisma of the villain.

Let’s be fair: it was clear she was going to die as soon as she was the first wildling to speak in favor of Jon’s truce.

I suspect that in the Doors of Stone we’re going to get a lot more of Bast and Chronicler—Kvothe has a lot of blind spots in his story (not knowing about the C’Thaeh, etc). I don’t know if I need full books from other characters’ POVs, but short stories about Elodin and Devi would be wonderful.

I’m a Pats fan and this is my favorite gif of all time.

If you zoom in, the pepperoni rolls are attributed to West Virginia (correct!) and Virginia’s meal is a . . . crab sandwich?

AND THAT’S WHY YOU ALWAYS LEAVE A NOTE

But the whole reason the movie was great is because it avoided the whole “AI and humanity are mortal enemies” thing, and presented a view of the singularity that we don’t see that often: AI is our child, and children must always eventually strike out on their own.

Westeros is pretty bad, yes, but if I woke up there tomorrow my first and only mission would be to make it to Braavos as quickly as possible. Take an apprenticeship as a blacksmith (I'm in my 30s but could probably pass for early 20s in that world), spend a couple of years learning the trade, and then boom—cast some…

Apparently the offside flag was up so it wouldn’t have counted anyway, though.

I have to give a shout out to Peter Watts' "The Things," which is his retelling of "The Thing" from the perspective from the alien. Gave me chills the first time I read it, and the third, and just now.

Back when I was driving buses in college we used to joke about (a) how awesome it would be if we had hoverbuses and (b) how awful it would be if anything went wrong:

Also unleaded gas.