If they're on Tau Ceti, Wolf 359, Aldebaran, and so on.

I love knowing these useless things. It comforts me in my dorkitude.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Sensuous Curmudgeon.

I have known about this basically all of my life.

But after seeing this speech, if I were not okay with it before (I was) I am even moreso now.

Thank you, PC.

And the three-parter was shai-hulud, thumper, and water-of-life. Which is also the translation of the Scottish word for whisky.

"How do you feel about nunchaku?"

...Since she might be called upon to explain (or recuse herself from) her own opinion in the Second Circuit of Appeals.

So, Judge, are they the same as firearms (like swords might be) or do they fall under some lesser category of protection? Is it okay to ban the carrying of gusari-manrikyu but not Colonel Colt's ( Read more... )

I thought I'd gotten two bad memory mods for the MacBook. In a row.One is possible, even plausible; two is operator error ( Read more... )

So I've been watching Big Bang Theory and like most sitcoms, it actually is pretty funny. Also like most sitcoms, many of the jokes are flat, lame, trite, half-assed, ill-considered, or were never funny to begin with and are still overdone ( Read more... )

There are, for example, three metric Felicia Days to the Imperial Kutcher.

And it's only five bucks for the PDF version.

Soooo tempted.

And sometimes I do. And then they bring The Creepy again and I am much less sure I can like it ( Read more... )

It is, for lack of a better word, good.