Don’t tell me how to live my life.

Yeah, the last time we tried Pizza hut I found the sauce unbearably sweet, and the best thing that could be said of the sausage was that it was probably part of some kind of animal at some point.

There was a local Jewish deli that had been in the family for a couple of generations and maintained fantastic food quality. In 2000 when it went to the next generation they collectively said “You know what, we all have other careers and we’re not going to be able to maintain the quality from afar.” and closed it on a…

Well they didn’t find a gun on him, and we all know that black men are always armed and dangerous, so it’s only logical that he must have been hiding another black guy carrying two guns up his butt. As soon as they let their guard down the second black guy would leap out of his butt and give him one of the guns, and…

I wish I could remember which Tom Clancy book it was, but in one of his earlier ones I recall a conversation between two characters while they were watching a football game. One of them was IIRC English and he was musing about how well behaved american football fans at the stadium were. He was in disbelief that they…

“Lada does anything including staying perfectly stationary, goes bad very quick.”

The really dicey bit will be when he crosses the Russian border and is instantly t-boned by a Lada running a red light.

That show did an amazing job of actually making me feel a tiny bit of sympathy for Hitler (within the context of them being in hell.) I’m fascinated to see where they go from here and what he does now that he’s out and on the run. It’s been said that every villain is the hero of their own story, but what do you do…

That’s weird, I thought that any weapon can be deadly within 21 feet and the cops want to go home to their families at the end of the night and if you don’t obey this is what happens and blah blah blah. It’s almost as if there’s some variable at work that we’re not seeing, something that causes them to not treat every…

Many years back I played a Pikachu in a fairly weird RPG campaign, and throughout the game I communicated exclusively through gesture, body language and saying my name in different ways. It was a lot of fun and I have to say it’s pretty amazing how much you can get across.

I was confused because as far as I knew Newsweek stopped publishing a print edition at the end of 2012. Apparently they relaunched in 2014 and nobody noticed or cared. The current sales figures are said to be about 100K, which puts them firmly in “Only remaining market is waiting room subscriptions.” territory.

It’s basically the same business model that a number of pen & paper RPGs have used, put out the main rule books and then churn out a seemingly endless stream of “splatbooks” with new character classes, magic, equipment and so on. Difference is that video games are a much larger market and you don’t have GMs saying “I…

My normal stance is that we have to be careful when handling restrictions placed on those who have served a prison term for crimes committed using a computer because computers and internet access are so vital to life these days that you risk gutting the person’s ability to move on and rebuild their life after they…

I’ve been really happy with Twelve South’s products.

Actually there are a number of studies indicating that putting even a small amount of time and/or difficulty between a person and their suicide method of choice makes a huge difference. There’s a really interesting article about it titled “The urge to end it all” and it does a good job of refuting the common wisdom of…

It’s one of the most genuinely awesome character arcs and death scenes in comic history, fondly remembered by a lot of fans.

They have a TV ad these days that touts their “quality control” and how they have a clear plastic thingy with lines on it that they hold over the pizza to check that there will be toppings in every bite. You know what else ensures toppings in every bite? Not being a stingy bastard with the fucking toppings. Don’t try…

Made me think of the Peter, Paul & Mary song. (Minus the bit at the end where he actually succeeds)

We had an older cat who was a terrible hunter, but apparently his very presence kept the mice at bay because the first winter after he was gone we started seeing evidence of rodents in the basement. Thankfully one of the two furballs we got from the shelter to replace him turned out to be quite a keen hunter and we…

I agree that the RT style review aggregation that works fine for movie reviews pretty much breaks down when you try to use it for TV shows. There are TV shows that knock it out of the park from the first episode, but they’re way outnumbered by the shows that take several episodes to find their feet and get all the…