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If that was the case, they needed to cast Samuel L Motherfucking Jackson as Frodo...

Sure, but The Lord of the Rings was published in 1954, when that wasn’t really a consideration for anyone.

I also suddenly have a little crush on Claire... don’t let Mrs Snowdog find out...

Rogue One was good. Solo was trash. Not even hot trash, just... trash.

This might be a double post — I thought I posted this earlier, but I can’t see it now...

Too bad the App Library is hot garbage...

Forgot “Change default mail and browser apps”

Well, I expect (or at least hope) that the quality of widgets will improve over the next couple of weeks as devs add widgets for their apps. All I can see right now are the few new Apple widgets, and the ones that already existed from other devs.

Still waiting for Butcher to finish the sequel to The Aeronaut’s Windlass... His website says it’s the next thing he’s working on, but...

Why a bit less heroin? You don’t think Alfred needs to unwind after putting up with his psychotic employer?

Laser SWORD, not lasgun... Was making a joke about the amount of Dune stuff that Lucas swiped for Star Wars...

They did several times during the Battle of Arakeen, both in action and as decoys, and I would expect to see them in the background all over the place...

So what would happen if a laser sword hit a Holtzman shield?

It’s a trailer... All the scenes are from the first third of the book, or earlier.  I don’t want a trailer that drops “For He IS the kwisatz haderach” in it.

We made a rule for the Snow Pups that a blanket “I don’t like this” isn’t an OK response. It’s fine to dislike something, but making them explain why they didn’t like it resulted in kids that were more willing to try different foods, and were able to discuss alternatives reasonably.

Well, you really need to do your homework about HOA fees, regardless. $70/year is ridiculously low compared to anything around where we live...

That’s commonly known as the Custer Effect...

Linking to the same article over and over again does not make it a more reliable source, you know...

Sure, I mean my wife yells at me every morning for free...