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What does the conceit of found footage add to the storytelling?

That’s easy. I’d promise to name a discovered goldielocks zone planet after each member of the sub committee responsible for the funding. And the moons would be named after their kids.

Those images are now the exclusive property of the producers of The 40 Year Old Virgin.

Can we just launch some ion engine and solar sail powered probes at the six nearest solar systems?

I stopped watching the show shortly after. It was the first genre show I ever gave up on. I only came back for the last half of the final season and felt like I hadn’t missed anything in between.

10 year moratorium on any form of remake. Not of a movie, TV series or cartoon.

And in order to sustain the ship year after year with no Starfleet docking facility for repairs, they would need to scavange parts where they can and make deals with other races to make repairs. All requiring more difficult choices.

Star Trek Voyager: Year of Hell. It should have been an entire season. With no time travel reset. Hard decisions. Hard consequences.

Its because the mindless rage beast is a boring one note character.

In the Ultimate Spidie carton, Parker net a female Spidie, but it wasn't Gwen. It was a female Parker. Just like there was a female JJJ.

Would mathematicians consider this cheating as they didn't really show their work?

Tried a quick search for the article, but its a few years back and didn't come up.

Can't find the exact article, but here's a similar one:

If the Predator uses its full range of weapons, this movie should last 5 minutes.

Don't carry anything but a swiss army knife in NYC. A handyman was arrested and forced to take a plea deal for having a leatherman on his belt in Brooklyn.

There are mall ninja knives where the blade is spring loaded in the handle. You push a button and it pops out. You can even disable the catch so the blade flies out of the handle.

April Fools, for Science!

More entertaining than the disappointment of the pihrana “feeding” time at most aquariums.

I want to comment on them. Sometimes humorously. Sometimes sarcastically. Sometimes to point out all the serious, serious flaws in the product being sold.