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Yup. The point is, for me, not that these people are stupid, but that we, being people, are stupid. Most people learn, I guess in high school, how to answer the question: what is the scientific method? But it wasn't until college that the beauty and power of it really hit me, really kind of...

Yup. I watched this one too, along with the one about the church of the woman with the big hair. The lesson for me is how pitifully easy it is for people to believe, and commit to, plain old crap. We are deficient, as a species, by design, in critical thought; it is not natural, it has to be...

OK. Finished The Consultant. Maybe there is some post post-modern aesthetic here that is beyond me. I'd ask someone to 'splain it to me but I'm afraid I wouldn't care enough to listen. Oh well. As I said, never again.

Oh, and as an answer to the question: It depends on one's goal. If it is to be an artist, then of course the latter. If it is to just make a product (and nothing really wrong with that) then it doesn't matter. Samuel R. Delany, in About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews...

I may be wrong, but the question works a little better for me if I put a comma between people and with. Or maybe: Now it is the move maker who doesn't regret imitating others, without care or conscience, and not the people themselves who are regret-less. Although I kind of like the idea of...

Ok. Four episodes into The Consultant (prime vid) and four to go, which I think I'll save till tomorrow. Yes it is somewhat suspenseful, and yes, Christoph Waltz is busy being Christoph Waltz. But I swear to god. If this thing is another open ended, unresolved, series of mysterious crap--I'll...

More from Oolon Collluphid, his great philosophical trilogy: Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?. And, like Douglas Adams, had had a fourth book in the trilogy: Well, That About Wraps It Up For God. And yes, Douglas Adams. ❤️

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Guilt But Were Too Ashamed To Ask. Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex But Have Been Forced to Find Out. -- Oolon Colluphid (Douglas Adams RIP)

Whenever I hear someone say, "I have no regrets," I think: "What species are you?"

Yup. Over the years, I have discovered, through experience, through trial and error, that, when faced with some kind of decision, major or minor, or some kind of moral dilemma, the default should be (and sometimes it has, and sometimes it hasn't) to bite the bullet and do the right thing. I...

On a family trip, way back when, driving around Lake Superior (my father, for some reason, thought this was a good idea) we were at this shallow little patch of stream, flowing into the lake over some extremely slippery, algae-covered slate. You could barely stand by it, and my nephew and I...

OK. I don't think i could pull it off, I think I would be too self-conscious walking around, but I think I want one of these shirts. Also one of those rugs that look like a vortex-hole in the floor. Actually, I think i want one of everything--a magic plasma ball, a table top fire pit, that...

Watched this week's Bill Maher. Bill's been on this anti-woke thing for a while, and it's an argument I don't have much sympathy for--more, it seems to me, propaganda aimed at the simple-minded, trying to recruit . . . well, whatever. Anyway, I watch Bill because, I guess, i always have, but...

Dang! I was going to invent a glowing scrotum to hang on your bicycle. Oh well.

Or, the master plan being that our hand full of heroes will infiltrate the nest of dozens of heavily armed bad guys and will face a barrage of bullets--which will all miss. Until the main good guy and the main bad guy face off, somehow manage to drop their weapons, and go at it hand to hand.

I didn't watch the show when it was on until the last few episodes, having binged the previous ones in the week or so before. And sure, it was entertaining, and had a lot of bits and scenes and actors that were kind of memorable, but I was a little surprised at the degree of praise the thing...

Nate, you want a reader? Let me know.

Rereading a few threads (and I do like this one) I'm returning to comment on Iren's closing post. I love that he (or maybe, she) was moved by what would be the absolute center of this project: the transcendent nature of great art, and the impossibility, the mystery, of it arising from the brains...

Hey, it made a joke (kind of) And then, of course, pedant that it is, goes on to explain. The fact that it "couldn't resist" the line -- I still don't know what to make of this, but it is, to me, astonishing. Before giving the literal answer--it can't interact with doors--it "understood" the...