'811098111081111 Gary Larson makes me laugh.|||Articles: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes, by Lucy A. Snyder|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRmbWnsMMk|||So I watched Jack Reacher last night, and in spite of it not being a great movie, the scene where a dumb blonde tries to pick him up in a bar had me howling.   A hooker would have gotten the...|||Sometimes, even you don't know if you're joking.|||I find the trick is to push a tiny edge so far that a trained player will get confused.  My brother is far better than me at chess, but last time we played I beat him simply because I had marginally...|||I suppose you can look at it that way if you like.  I have decided that I don't need to give JarJar Abrams any benefit of the doubt when it comes to what he's doing to StarTrek.  It would be one...|||Whether it was intended or not does not affect whether it exists or not.  Sure, we see a lot of Spock-Uhura interaction during the series, but we never see Spock show romantic interest in anyone,...|||So much of Abrams-Trek is so bad it's difficult to even locate the worst of it.  The whole Spock-Uhura relationship is the biggest alteration to a beloved character since George Lucas re-engineered...|||No...I can just tell the difference between Star Trek and someone who just got Lost on the way to the bank.|||Really?  You liked that?  How?  Oh.  It suddenly makes sense.|||Yeah.  I mean, why make him Khan?  All that does for the plot is forces the super-weapons to be fueled with frozen people, meaning the enterprise was bound to tumble to Marcus' treachery when they...|||Star Trek Into Darkness.  So bad...so bad.  It was a borderline traumatic experience.|||Sam Lowry from Brazil.  Or maybe Brenda from Six Feet Under.  Perhaps Lindsay from Freaks and Geeks.  Topher Grace from Dollhouse?  I identify very strongly with all of these characters.|||60's: The White Album (Beatles) Sgt Peppers  (Beatles) Let it Bleed (Rolling Stones) In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson) Led Zeppelin II (duh)  70's* Dark Side of the Moon (Pink...|||I thought the visuals were great, but that the script was so lazy and manipulative that I felt like my intelligence was being insulted for the last two thirds of the film.  Pointless plot...|||I don't think this is uncommon.  As we get older, our interests change.  Also, the nature of the subjects tend to change.  In high school/prep school, humanities classes tend to be almost entirely...|||BladeRunner in a narrow race with 2001.  This of course assumes the later editions of BladeRunner, not the theatrical one which is badly spoiled by the narration.|||I have two more episodes of the last season to watch, and have read the first four books (waiting for paperback).  My general observation:  They are fairly faithful, and well executed.  In recent...|||I'm pretty certain my type is correct, but there is an argument to be made for at least one other...I'll play along.|||I agree.  We INTPs would also be relatively good at surviving, as we're not overly dependent on social interactions and don't have a terribly difficult time terminating relationships suddenly.  These...|||Prometheus...It was better than Phantom Menace.|||I'm not nearly that cool, suave, good looking, or likely to contract lung cancer.  Actually, I'm one of the guys who figured out we could sell mortgages to people who didn't need them when...|||As someone who once made a great deal of money in marketing, I second this.  In the end, the only way I could live with what I was doing to people was to pour a more or less constant stream of...|||There are a few reasons, one being that we don't necessarily play well irl with the more common personality types.  We also tend to structure our reality around ideas rather than real world...|||I once had a high school teacher, on reading an essay I wrote about Cat's Cradle, tell me I had the soul of a poet.|||I watched, on a suggestion from a friend, for about 15 seconds.  By the time they went to the laugh track the third time in that span, I knew I'd hate it.|||Don't hold it against the kids you saw as incongruously loud and happy.  Grief affects different people in different ways.  When I was 13, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven...|||I am not a lawyer, and moderately offended at the allegation!  That is to say, your allegation that I am sane.|||...when you deliver a deadpan one liner only to have the person who set you up look at you like you just offered to pimp out their mother.|||Lots of things, most particularly:  The final moments of the film Brazil. Bill Hicks Richard Pryor Ironic occurrences in everyday life (this sometimes convinces people I am cruel and uncaring)...|||Mine has two versions - abridged and unabridged.  The abridged version lists everything, but only details those jobs which are relevant to the current prospective employment and lists the other jobs...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iatGZ8NDknA|||@kikkins: I'm sorry if you were offended by my assertion about whether or not your post was in any way an attempt to appear intelligent; I certainly am somewhat guilty of making an assumption on that...|||Because I don't see the example you cite as irony.  Perhaps I just view the world differently, but it is the practice of ranking people, not the method by which those rankings are derived, which...|||Why do people feel like I've attacked them personally when all I've done is demonstrate faulty logic within an argument they've made?  I generally thank people when they do this for me. (although...|||I agree with this as a worthy addition to the list.  As much as I love Wild Strawberries and the Seventh Seal (particularly the latter), Through a Glass Darkly spoke to me in a way that few films...|||To my thinking, this statement is, in and of itself, ironic.|||I would actually be 100% behind the guy who turned his dead cat into a RC helicopter on two conditions: 1 - a bird problem and, 2 - the roto-kitty was actually controllable enough to use it as a...|||Not sure if it was me, but I know I saw a great doc on Ellsberg a few years back.  The reason I'm not sure it was me is that I can't recall the title to save my life!  Fog of War is a must see for...|||Fog of War; Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert McNamara directed by Errol Morris with a great soundtrack from Philip Glass.  Actually, anything directed by Errol Morris is a pretty good bet for...|||Have you considered Euler's Identity?  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/math/9/e/9/9e9a547076c6820b95e439dd1a5d6a32.png|||I write.  Mainly I write science fiction, but I also occasionally dabble in essays and erotica.|||You find your pet cat to be too socially demanding.|||I never had much problem with this. I rarely went to class anyway.  I read very well though, and learn well from reading, so I usually broke the curve when a prof pulled that move. From talking to...|||I'd sell my plan, but I wouldn't want to live in that world unless I was in charge.|||I never really watched that show, so I couldn't say for certain.  Was the Brain an ambition blinded schemer, and Pinky the one who molded the schemes into something that actually might work?|||For the most part, we lack the kind of ambition necessary for world domination.  Understanding, not power is our goal. I'm convinced we'd make fairly effective advisors to persons with great power. ...|||That is the golden rule.|||Depends on the quality of your legal representation.'