Robert Ingis’ unabridged reading of Lord of the Rings. Brilliant voice characterization. Each character is unique, so much so that there's a part where Merry is imitating Gandalf, and you can hear both of their voices. He and the producer wrote original music for the songs. An epic reading.

Scatboards

Rollerblands.

So many ideas in there I can't let it go.

New Sun is so amazing.

I'd take Anathem or The Baroque cycle over either one.

Gene Wolfe’s Severian the Toturer series. Utterly brilliant. And I’d stack Stephenson’s Baroque cycle or Anathem against Snow Crash any day.

“My battery doesn’t last because my wifi is eating it.” “Now my data gets used up because I wanted to save battery charge.” You know what doesn't use up either? Turn it off sometimes.

Hey, I've had rosary chicken! Isn't rosary that long, grassy stuff the put on potatoes n stuff? It's good.

So when the call comes, I’ll get on the horn to Andy Serkis. He can do anything, including mocap of Gambit jumping on that crazy stick. If he’s unavailable, I’m sure I can find a unknown Brit or an Aussie, since there are absolutely zero American actors who can do a Cajun accent.

I'd love to know what it's used for.

You seem to be defining existence in such a narrow way that you will soon disprove yourself. Fictional characters have real effects. That is my point. The idea of Holmes changed our police work. I believe, yes, an idea has real existence.

It was the dream of flying, and the understanding of math, that allowed us to build powered wings, and literally fly. As Adam Savage has pointed out, our desire causes us to learn how to do things that are impossible under our own power.

Sherlock Holmes effects our real world.

There are any number of concepts we believe in which effect our actions: emotions, stories, religious beliefs, and numbers, to name a few. There are tangible, real-world changes made, which exist (assuming we truly count ourselves as existing) based on those concepts. The Hoover dam is built of numbers and concrete.…

If time stops on the event horizon of a black hole, and yet they do merge, I can’t imagine what sort of strange forces and mathematics must be taking place. Fascinating!

Or Alan Moore, famous wizard and self-proclaimed comic book author. (Or is that the other way around.)

This is how antique dealers work.

It depends. Is it going to take pictures of me without my knowing and hold my data for ransom?

Hadron is Kenyan for, “Crazy.”