Yeah, I’m pretty much done at this point myself.

Finally, another Idiocracy hater. Most people I know around here love it. The smug smarmy-ness of it makes my teeth itch. It’s like move-length Bill Maher routine.

Holy. Shit. That’s beyond the pale.

Nice.

Nope, I still do that, provided the mold is on a limited amount of the surface (if half the surface is moldy, I just give up).

I live in a Big 10 college town, and we refer to the 2 days where all of the leases turn over in the student neighborhoods as “hippie christmas” (or sometimes “the couch parade”). Luckily, the university has gotten pretty good about providing donation bins for drom moveout, but the off-campus housing is on a…

I live in WI, so I’ve seen a lot of him in the past few years, and every picture or video clip makes me want to punch him. I’ve never encountered him in person, but I feel pretty confident at the point saying that it’s his face.

He created the “budget gap” that “required” busting the unions by instittuting a massive tax cut for the weathly when he took office. The budget had been balanced under Doyle. The whole thing was a completely manufactured crisis.

Yeah, it’s been a rough few years. I’ve gotten to the point where I keep a selection of small stuffed animals next to the couch to throw at the TV whenever the news covers a speech of his.

I think that this may be me just not knowing my way around awards like this, but how is AHS: Freak Show considered a mini-series (for Jessica Lange’s nomination) with 13 eps in the season, while Orphan Black is considered a regular series with 10 eps in the season?

The sheer number of creepy stories I’ve heard about Watson (some direct, most 2nd or 3rd hand) are insane. This is the same guy who in one of his autobiographies complains that Rosalind Franklin was “almost willfully unpretty”, because that’s really salient to her impact as a scientist.

All of the stars for you!

I had the same confusion when I first started hearing about 12 Years a Slave. I hadn’t been aware of him before that.

Yeah, I remember at least a few interviews with Steve McQueen when he won the Oscar for 12 years a slave where the reporters tried to ask him how he felt about being the first “African American” director to win an Oscar. His response was basically “I’m not African American. I’m Black British”.

Hooray!

This! 1000x this. I work on a big 10 campus, and I’m rejoicing in the end of the school year because it means most of the dudebro frat boys are gone. You know, the ones who think it’s hilarous to moo out their windows at me and pretty much every other woman on the bike trial while I’m biking to and from work (on a…

All the stars for you!

Yeah, call me uninformed, but I wasn’t aware that not being upwardly mobile was a capital crime. I guess I should expect my execution to come any day now, since I will undoubtedly be less well off than my parents.

Yeah, one of my labmates gave me no end of grief for being “politically correct” and “going overboard on diversity” when I was sorting through applications to hire an undergrad assistant, and the people I brought in for interviews were ~60% women and ~3/4 non-white. It didn’t even occur to him that these could…

Yeah, it also makes me feel like putting a huge amount of effort on the front end to trying to anticipate potential reviewer questions and address them in the process of the initial experiments and writing the paper is a waste (which is a shame, because I think it’s an important intellectual exercise that helps you to…