"I hope the new program doesn't try to make that more complicated than it has to be."

Absolutely! As a data scientist, I don't know where I'd be without Notepad. When a client sends over a huge CSV file, the first step is always to take a quick look at the first few rows in Notepad. If there are any problems of the type that would cause SQL Server or R to choke, they'll usually show up immediately.

I'm genuinely sad to hear this. Despite being proficient with Photoshop and Illustrator, it's shocking to me how often Paint is the right tool for the job.

"What about my pain, huh?"

Between this absurd Boy Scout speech and the kerfuffle with Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, I've noticed fewer and fewer Trumpkins seem to be coming to his defense on the boards here and elsewhere. Is it still too soon to hope that a few of them are starting to wise up?

That sounds pretty gay.

Bravo! Actually, I wonder if just bribing the admissions board at that art school so that they'd let him in would solve everything with no bloodshed.

The world would be a poorer place without that clip of Meat Loaf screaming at Gary Busey. That's all I got for any positive impact the show had.

So, when I get the time machine working again, does "stop NBC from giving Trump a TV show" come before or after "kill Hitler in the 1920s"?

It's all relative; the Sand Snakes could hardly have been a bigger bust than they were on the show. I wasn't a fan in general of how much space GRRM gave to Dorne in the books, and I wasn't sad when the show streamlined that whole story; the big disappointment was that they cast a fantastic actor for Doran and then…

Ideally, Sansa first sends a raven to Cersei explaining just who actually killed Joffrey, then kicks LF's sleazy ass out of Winterfell.

There were a whole lot more Martells, too. Hell, in the books there are eight Sand Snakes (and they're neither as useless nor as annoying as they are on the show).

I didn't find that scene comical at all. And Jorah's nod to Sam to continue after the first round was my favorite little character moment of the episode.

I'm too lazy to go back and check, but wasn't the battle featuring Tyrion and the Hill People in the vanguard a big epic deal in the book?

I'm scratching my head over how Littlefinger could possibly still be breathing at this point. I understand that they need the Knights of the Vale, but surely he should have met with an "accident" by now.

There's definitely serious time dilation happening. More than anything else, I'm reminded of 24; in the first season, the bad guys had a clever and subtle plan to kidnap Jack's wife and daughter, and it happened over several episodes. By the time Day 6 rolled around, when the bad guys needed to kidnap Morris, it took…

That's interesting; I went back and rewatched Season 1 recently, and I maintain that the show was a lot better when they didn't have the budget for epic battles and big crowd scenes, and had to keep the focus on the characters and the dialogue instead. Heck, the scene where Jaime gets captured takes place offscreen,…

I maintain that that spot in downtown Boston where Tremont St intersects with itself is the central nexus of the time-space continuum.

Connecticut-style driving is a by-product of cross-pollination between New York-style driving (aggression, anger, random use of turn signals, and always trying to go twice the speed limit) and Boston-style driving (aggression, anger, always going half the speed limit while randomly slamming on your brakes for no…

If you're on the lawn, getting drunk is really your only option because you sure as hell can't enjoy the concert from there.