I, too, rarely ever go back after watching something. I also don’t ever buy something, even shows or movies that I really liked. In fact, I’ve even found that re-watching some shows that I’ve loved is unpleasant. I noticed it when re-watching episodes of Fawlty Towers. I absolutely loved the shows when I first saw…

Old TV shows also act like a sort of background music for people, something to have on while you work on a task at hand. You don’t need to pay close attention since you’re already familiar with the plot, and with streaming, you can always rewind to the the part of the episode that you really like the first time around.

I think that calling out movie length is reasonable. There are stories that absolutely need more than 1.5-2 hours to be told well, but I think there’s a run-time inflation kind of thing happening now, where directors see that someone else has blown past 120 minutes, and think to themselves that their story deserves at…

It was exciting to see a big scale production of a Best Song nominee again. It seems like it’s been nothing but small performances ever since the Rob Lowe/Snow White opening number fiasco.

Seriously, Occam’s Razor needs to be applied here.

Yes, if someone failed to properly mount and tighten one wheel, how much trust do you have in the work done on the remaining wheels?

If the 9/11 highjackers had been smart, they would have suicide bombed a dozen major shopping malls on Black Friday

But the bigger point is, why? A regular tent is SUPER EASY to set up

I’ll allow it.

Please, no. Murphy is far too interesting of an actor to get stuck making the half dozen Bond films that Broccoli would require of the next actor tapped to portray Bond. Let some lesser actor who needs to polish his craft take the mantle.

Jeeves and Wooster would be an excellent place to start.

Everyone is focused on the glove modification, but is no one concerned about the fact that to use the modified glove, the driver is taking his hand off of the steering wheel in order to hold it up against the netting? That seems to be the greater risk factor.

So adding Hambone to the back was an effort to improve handling?

I know a big mantra right now is to tax wealth, but the question remains on how to effectively do that.

In college we studied the possibility that the works of Shakespeare were actually written but a contemporary under that pseudonym. Someone analyzed those works, counting up word and metaphor usage, and pretty conclusively demonstrated that they were different authors. It’s pretty difficult to not rely on the same…

I really dug the CRX when new. I worked with a guy that had one and rode in it, thought it was a perfect little toy for a guy without kids. I even like this ragtop version a lot, but I just can’t imagine driving something this tiny on a road dominated by massive SUVs. Drivers of those have enough trouble seeing big…

Yes, but Bezos has a lot of money. If he could buy Rivian out of BK at a serious discount, it would let him branch into a whole other industry with proven tech, and he could absorb losses until they got the manufacturing costs down. He would probably enjoy sticking his finger in Elmo’s eye as well. Imagine his EV…

I really enjoy seeing Cruise play against type like that. Collateral was another good performance by him. He should do those roles more often.

It’s a shame that no one has seriously put out a modest EV other than the Bolt (I don’t consider the Leaf very serious given its styling). All the EV manufacturers get sucked into the assumption that range has to be ~300 miles. I think there could be a market for an EV that had a range of 150-175 miles, especially if…

Since Rivian is making the Amazon delivery vans, I could see Bezos buying them at a discount, if nothing else just to make sure the vans keep coming.