Gonna guess went to law school, did not get law job.

Might also be the whole, I dunno, artificial people and the people around them struggling with the big what-is-life-really-anyway question thing. Or the lighting.

Aaaand there it is. We're running away from the lost and glorious civility of a simpler and gentler time and towards the zombie apocalypse ... because Obama. Got it.

Thank you. Saved me the trouble of saying it.

And then paint over them with lead paint. Slumlord's wet dream.

These pun threads are the worst. Everyone patting themselves on the back for being oh so arch.

I wake up groping my own ass all the time.

In all seriousness, Maker's Mark is my go-to. Bless you, sir.

I have a hole in the center of my being that I try to fill with premium consumer electronics and footwear.

Can't edit, but that should read freewheel cog, not freewheeling.

It's not fancy road bike stuff. A flip flop is a kind of singlespeed wheel hub that can accommodate a fixed gear cog on one side, and be fitted with a freewheeling cog on the other. Difference being the fixed gear will move the crank whenever the bike is moving, whereas the freewheel is like your old kid's bike, where…

+1000 on #1 there. Patching on the fly is for the birds.

I made your last point somewhere below. This is unacceptable. I don't care about you even. I care about you smashing into me.

A few notes, coming from a native NYCer who has been biking in this town for decades:

I prefer the beer before — or during — the run.

I agree with most everything you've said. However, it's always slightly irritated me that TMP was essentially a retread of the TOS season 2 episode The Changeling. But the concept is so awesome it's only a small negative.

Among the many things I liked about Alien 3 (yeah, I said it) was that it killed off Newt and Hicks in the first few minutes. I know this was a major point of nerdrage for the Aliens fans but it reestablished Ripley as the solitary, doomed badass from the superior Alien.

Alien 3 never gets the credit it deserves. I found it a nice downshift from the big, dumb-ish bombast of Aliens, and of course Newt and Hicks had to die. Leaving aside how annoying they were, fact is being close to Ellen Ripley is bad for your health. Poor woman is doomed.

I have a Middle Eastern name, despite being the most hideously, monolingually American American. I never remember anyone's goddamned name because I am always steeling myself for being asked to repeat mine several times, potentially spell it, then be purposely obtuse when people inevitably start to ask where I'm from.

I think I am alone among uber nerds in not hating Prometheus. I actually kinda liked it.