Spider-Man is possibly my favourite Marvel character. Because - this kid, he's just a kid. He falls backward into some power and he thinks he'll just skate by now, and then he realises that he has to help people, it would be irresponsible to just profit from his luck. I, I don't know, look up to the idea of Spider-Man, in the same way that I look ( Read more... )

So there's a joke where a mayor, a priest, and an engineer all go golfing together, but they sit around waiting the entire morning because the guy before them is taking ages, until eventually they can't take it anymore and they ask the steward what is going on, and the steward says well you see the guy before you is a firefighter who lost his sight ( Read more... )

I don't know. I feel kind of...dumb, and useless, and ineffective, and not good at things today.

Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and wonder if I'm the kind of man I'd be proud of. There's a bit in Tom King's latest Mr Miracle; to get in their heads, Kalibak offers Scott Free and Big Barda the Mirror of Goodness. It turns out that it's a ( Read more... )

I'm pretty certain this is how The Handmaid's Tale starts. I feel like I'm about to throw up.

My god, it's been seven years of getting emotionally blindsided. What is going on.

I think it's...important, or at least useful, to be able to clamp down on feelings and turn them off. Push them down, really, push it down and ignore them. They really just get in the way. I think it's Stross, there's a book I remember reading where there's a relatively common processor for the brain, called the metacortex: with it you can regulate ( Read more... )

Billy Joel was a great concert tonight, and I don't regret going. But I was not prepared for And So It Goes. In hindsight, I should have been, because...of course he would play it. It'd be weird if he didn't play it. But I was not prepared for And So It Goes, on this day, of all days. Five years ago today. It still cracks me open, sometimes: but ( Read more... )

In economics this refers to the problem of influencing the investment cycle by way of manipulating the Federal interest rate; theoretically at lower Fed rates more liquidity is available to banks on short notice, which eases some of their liquidity problems and makes it easier for them to make loans to the rest of the economy. The problem is at ( Read more... )

Jamie is over and where can I turn?
Covered with scars I did nothing to earn
Maybe there's somewhere a lesson to learn
But that wouldn't change the fact
That wouldn't speed the time
Once the foundation's cracked
And I'm
Still hurtingSo I'm definitely leaving Thursday. On the one hand I'm sort of relieved it's over. On the other hand, I thought this ( Read more... )

Went shooting on Saturday. It was great; AR and the others made fun of me for making a point of introducing myself to the range officers as they cycled in and out, but I think it's basic sense to make sure the people who are ensuring your safety know who you are. I shot the P226, which is exactly as much of a beast as I remember it being, but more ( Read more... )