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I suspect the reason there's no movie of Han and Leia's wedding is because they changed their last names to Duet. Kyllo Ren's birth name was Ben Trio. If they'd had another kid, they would have just gone with Ensemble.
Fun fact: The modern Cherokee syllabary, which contains characters resembling Latin/English letters, was created for the printing press. The original syllabary had no characters we would recognize except for "ga," which was a treble clef sign. So that means Lady Gaga's name would have been written 𝄞𝄞.
And the award for most confusing headline of the day goes to: Kansas man accidentally shot at meat plant; buffalo blamed
Apropos of nothing: Rats may be the first to flee a sinking ship, but only the captain is last. That leaves everyone else somewhere in the middle.
In Cherokee, "Nice weather today" has the same number of syllables as a haiku. O-s-da NU-s-da do-ya-di-LA ko-hi-i-GA.
It blows my mind that basically every OS is now UNIX. Back in 1993, when we were learning nonsensical UNIX commands, I never would have guessed that 24 years later we could sit down with any Mac, Windows, or Chrome computer and be only a few clicks or keystrokes away from a bash prompt, and both major cell phone OSes also run UNIX under the hood, as well as virtually the whole Internet.
The fact that we share 99% of our DNA with mice should give us paws.
There should be a movie called "A Human's Purpose," in which a guy spends his life feeding a series of dogs and carrying their poop around the neighborhood.
"Mike, you know how much I enjoy watching you work, but I've got my inauguration to plan, lawful immigrants to attack, and Muslims to frame for it. I'm swamped!" --Prince Trumperdinck
Lesson learned: attempting to apply drywall mud without first removing wallpaper does not, in fact, save time and labor. It is a reasonably effective way to remove the wallpaper, however.
Duolingo just totally cracked me up by having me translate "There is no spoon" from Russian. ("There are no spoons" was not an acceptable answer.) It's been over a decade since I saw the Matrix, but that's one of those over-the-top lines that outlives the movie, like "I know kung-fu" or "See how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Bad joke of the day: stick forks made of two different metals into a pickle. Put someone's hands each on one fork. Say, "I'm charging you with an attempted battery."
Arrival is better the second time because you get to experience it the way the heptapods do.
So much of our technology is based on heating things up, it's going to be a challenge when all we want to do is cool things down.
Summer Glau sounds like how Chaucer would describe a suntan.
That awkward moment when you're halfway through a news article before you realize it's not the Onion and there won't be any jokes.
I think everyone on both sides of the aisle agrees that military contractors shamelessly overcharge the government for equipment and services. So why is "spending more on the military" even on the table? If our commander in chief is half the businessman he claims, shouldn't he be able to spend *less* and get more value from those contractors?
Whenever I see a semicolon tattoo, I wonder if the other side says <?php or #include.
Justice isn't blind. That blindfold is for her Jedi training.
Whenever an online form requires me to give myself a title, I remember games of Silent Football back in the '90s and all the preposterous titles we gave ourselves. Archbishop Dirtboy. Supreme Commander Toejam [Football]. Mr. Ection. Mr. "He". Rev. Dr. Motorboat. What were some other good ones?
Proposal: buy a package of adhesive coat hooks. Whenever you're in a public bathroom stall without a hook, add one.
I hope the LEGO Batman Movie outperforms all the Dark Knight films so that WB can accept it as canon and leave all the dark broody BS behind. Batman is no good without character development, a chosen family, and a sense of humor.
The new trailer for Ghost in the Shell makes it look like they just said, "What if Robocop was a naked lady?"
During most of the Netflix movie "Barry," I was thinking it must have been the inspiration for "Get Out." Except during the montage set to "All Along the Watchtower." No, thanks to Battlestar Galactica, during that scene I was thinking, "OMG, Obama is a Cylon!"
[link to an article about official recognition of a new form of cloud] According to the International Cloud Atlas, most prominent clouds are reincarnations of different-looking clouds that all knew each other in previous lives and will do so again in the future as they live out their karmic fates, and the presence of a comet-shaped birthmark may or may not help you identify the main character or something.
Trigger warning!
Early one morning, while eating Fruity Oaty Bars / I gathered three flowers in a vase for you / The first one was yellow, second was also / As for the third one, green was its hue.
I'm grateful that March Madness ends when they get down to one team. Though come to think of it, "Single Elimination" would be a good name for a dating reality show.
The remake of Beauty and the Beast adds more than half an hour of footage to fill in some of the plot holes of the original, but I still have questions...
1. How did the mob find the hidden castle, when not one of them knew the way? Did the sorceress help them? What for?
2. Were Cogsworth et al. originally servants or guests in the castle? If they were servants, why were they dancing in the first ballroom scene (when their vain master presumably would have had more distinguished guests) as well as in the final scene? If they were guests, why were most of them named after household items, and what happened to the original servants?
3. If the whole point of the Beast's enchantment is that he's supposed to be too ugly to love, how come he's so magnificent? It's not like Disney has some kind of policy against repulsive characters.
4. What historical event resulted in the main characters having English accents while the minor characters are French? Was there some sort of converse to the Norman invasion of 1066, so that aristocrats all traded countries?
5. Belle distinctly refers to her tiny front-yard garden as a "farm." Is she a pioneer of urban farming, or unclear on the concept?
6. Gaston is supposed to be "roughly the size of a barge." Was John Cena not available to play the role?
[headline: Contestants leave wilderness after a year to find their reality show doesn't exist anymore] All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players, and beyond the glare of the lights, the audience has long ago gone home.
You can tell we've had a lot of thunderstorms from the number of dog toys in our hallway.
Looking at a map of global soil erosion rates, and I'm like, "Oh, at least there's no erosion in the Gobi and Sahara deserts...
"... wait ..."
You know, when I hear the phrase "the war on coal," what I think of is the fact that new coal is not being made anymore, and probably won't be until humans are long gone, and so every bit of it we burn diminishes the amount that is left, essentially forever. It's the most efficient and stable store of carbon on the planet, and every chunk we burn is a nail in our coffin.
Quote of the evening: you can do a lot of algebra with just x and y, but it would be dumb to say those are the only two variables you'll ever use. [regarding pronouns]
I remember when Peter Capaldi was chosen to play the Doctor, they said an older actor would give the role gravitas and dignity. Then they gave him scripts where he was disoriented and forgetful. I'm kind of afraid what they'll do when the Doctor is female. PMS jokes?
The only reason Millennials are the "selfie generation" is because the Boomers had cumbersome cameras.
I wonder if anyone has ever had successful results from the Four Non-Blondes' coping strategy (stepping outside and screaming, "What's going on?"). It doesn't sound very effective to me.
Ah, spring, that time of year when literally every item in the hardware store's sale flyer is a poison. Life is returning! Kill it now!
In hindsight, it's suspicious that only my Efficiency Kansas customers whose names began with A through N received loans to complete their projects.
My spell checker must be an introvert -- it wants to know if instead of "gregarious," I meant "egregious."
I think if imperial is spelled with an I, colonial should be spelled with a K. It's only fair.
While walking the dogs just now, I heard Morse code. I asked the guy sitting nearby whether that was his ring tone, or if he knew Morse. He laughed and said, "good one! That's brilliant!" as if it was ludicrous to think anyone would know Morse. Dude's next door neighbor has three ham radio antennas and a call sign license plate. Oh, well.
Gah! Two different guests on two different permaculture podcasts I've listened to have claimed that the word "mortgage" came from Greek and means "death grip." Wrong and wrong. Why should I believe anything else you say if you repeat stuff without taking 10 seconds to Google whether it's true? 😠
Back in 1993 or so when I was captain of the BHS Academic Bowl team, during a match we got a set of questions that I had heard before, when I was timekeeping a match between two other teams and the judges mistakenly used the wrong set of questions. Scrupulous guy that I am, after buzzing in two or three times on questions before they had been fully read, I told the judges what had happened and offered to sit out the round. But there was no provision in the rules for swapping out a player during a round, let alone a team captain, so they left me in, and I continued to buzz in for pretty much every question, and we easily won the match. I've felt guilty about that for years.
Tonight I finally realized for the first time: there were at least ten other players in the room who also heard those questions early. And they had an even greater advantage, since their entire teams heard the questions, not just one player.
Most days, our dogs are fine with the rest of the world being located outside the house. Today is not one of those days.
If you are advertising a liquid product as 98% natural, you need to tell me what percent is water.
A carillon downtown is playing the Hallelujah Chorus... on Good Friday. I'm no theologian, but... Wouldn't that be more appropriate two days from now?
When you're biking on a 2-lane road, and a car approaches from either direction, and the one behind slows to let the oncoming one pass, but then the oncoming one also slows to a crawl for some reason...? #nothelpful #justdrive
So many of my female friends are reporting dropping their phones into toilets, I think the time has finally come for women to rise up and demand larger pockets on their clothes. Or sue the clothing manufacturers for replacement costs. Seriously, when was the last time you heard of a man dropping his phone in the toilet?
It's that thing where one of the outstanding luminaries in your field [Darren J Doherty] broadcasts a webinar from a room with a twin mattress leaning up against the wall.
When a taxidermist gets a burst of energy, does she shout, "form ALL de hide!"?
Copy and paste this status as your own to show that someone is always plagiarizing!
OK but... which bands have you seen die?
This morning I dreamed I heard Ruth Stout saying, "My philosophy of life is, 'Yippee.'
"...'Yippee.'"
As I breathe in, I remember all the crazy stuff happening in the world. As I breathe out, I remember we're all just a bunch of apes after all; what do you expect?
I miss Simon [the cat], but in the year since he died we've had more birds nesting on the property than we had in 7 years with him on patrol.
Corporations are people. Specifically, sociopaths.
Hey, fundraisers. When you use the phrase "last chance" multiple times over several weeks of emails, it loses all credibility. It makes me think you don't know what day it is, let alone how to plan ahead.
I am suspicious of ResistBot. I know if I were an unpopular elected official with totalitarian leanings, I would want all the dissent to come from a single channel, so it could be more easily ignored. YMMV.
I don't know where the little girl lives who is practicing her roller skating while walking a dachshund up and down the sidewalk, but I like her style.
Here's what I don't get about the Handmaid's Tale, even after two readings and now the miniseries: where did all the additional men come from? Most people aren't able to have kids, and yet somehow there are enough extra men to replace *all* the women in the workforce *and* form an omnipresent police force. Where did they all come from?
I know some very sweet, gentle pit bulls. They're great dogs. I get that poor training is usually at fault for any dog's aggressive behavior. But nobody's ever been killed by an aggressive chihuahua, no matter how badly trained it was. If you are opposed to breed bans but in favor of gun control, please explain to me how you reconcile those two positions.
I finally just realized why permaculturalists recommend building a house at the steepest point (keypoint) of a slope, even though doing so seems awkward. The reason that's the steepest point is because the rock there is relatively hard -- it has a steeper angle of repose. Not only does that make it easier to construct a foundation there, it means springs will spontaneously form there if the ground above is saturated. So you've got both a convenient water source and a firm foundation, which you wouldn't have in the softer layers above and below.
Ah, Facebook marketplace. Most of the time you immediately find me buyers who have cash on hand to exchange for my unwanted crap. Today the woman who agreed to buy used scraps of garden edging for $1 did not have a dollar, so she gave me her last 51¢ from the console of her run-down pickup. I am humbled by the whole situation.
OMG, why did it take me so long to buy a 1080p monitor? It's like that moment in the screening of Oz the Great and Powerful when they pulled the theater curtains back and switched to Cinemascope, after starting the film in square format.
Remember when we thought properly cared-for CDs would outlast cassette tapes?
I just found one of my old journal entries in which I speculated that the town of Petawawa, Ontario (which I had just passed through) got its name from the Ojibwe word for Canada goose, plus the SI prefix for 1,000,000,000,000.
Things I just learned about Vietnamese from Duolingo, which may or may not be accurate: the color green is literally "skin of leaves," and blue is "skin of sky;" the word for brown sounds like "mau now," making the saying "how now, brown cow" useful for the first time in my life.
I can't think of a time in my life when having a gun would have made me safer.
Quote of the morning: "You're seeing the skeleton [of a plan]. You're not seeing what's inside." So... the plan is an arthropod?
Wonder Woman was good, but this weekend's Doctor Who may have been the most straightforwardly anti-totalitarian episode in the show's history, and this is a show that has been blatantly fighting totalitarianism since 1961. Don't get me wrong, it was not a great episode even by DW standards. But it spoke to the current political climate in a way that Wonder Woman (being set in the past) did not. And the guy who wrote it is the new show runner, so we may be in for a ride next season.
And before you say Wonder Woman was more feminist, Diana is not a human being. She may or may not have stopped WWI -- it's not actually clear, which is odd since that was her singular goal for the whole entire film, and yet we are left not knowing -- but if she did, she's a goddess, not a woman. She doesn't share your history of oppression or microaggressions or even PMS. When she stands up for herself in the film, she's empowering herself, not you. When she uses her godly powers, that doesn't give you powers. Meanwhile, in the Doctor Who episode, a black lesbian cafeteria cook saves the world, even though the most powerful man on earth (who tried and failed!) is repeatedly ordering and begging her not to, even though she thinks it will cost her life, and she succeeds not because she's extraordinary in some way or predestined to greatness but --simplifying a bit here-- because she *cares* in a way that he does not. It's fine to have heroes and role models, but at the end of the day, which message is more empowering?
Hmmm, should I sign up for 6 months of satellite radio for $30 or 12 months for $99? Surely you can't be Sirius...
Somebody should buy Maxwell's demon a centrifuge.
I'm about 20 years late with this joke, but... Yo' mama's such a geek, she thought the Spice Girls would all have blue eyes.
I just received an email claiming, "If there is a Transportation Stopage People will kill Each Other in the Streets in Less than 4 days!"
My reactions: 1) Click unsubscribe. 2) Stoppage has two p's. 3) Cars kill people in the streets every single day. Assuming a transportation stoppage includes cars, the death rate will go *down* immediately.
Whenever the characters on Orphan Black start talking about Neolution, I think, "It should be Elvislution! Elvislution!!!"
[in response to the Philando Castile shooting] Black lives matter. If the police want my respect, they can start earning it any time.
Does anybody else sometimes mistype Granada as Grandad? In downtown Emporia ya got your Grandad Theatre, Grandad Coffee, the Sweet Grandad...
Here is one way humans are different from apes: if a baby ape threw tantrums the way a baby human does, the entire group would be eaten. Maybe this is why a group of apes is called a "shrewdness."
People who call pets furbabies should call children skinbabies.
Switching to single payer health care would eliminate thousands of people's jobs. But at least they wouldn't lose their insurance...
[responding to BBC article, "Canadian sniper 'kills IS miltant two miles away'"] You know, the Green Martians in Edgar Rice Burroughs's books had guns like this, but they never used them, not once in all the books that I can recall, because they lived by a code of honor, and it would be seen as cowardly to kill from a distance, so they always took the risk of fighting up close. Granted, dropping bombs is much worse. Burroughs's heroes didn't do that, either. Granted also, they were fictitious, and the people they were fighting also had a code of honor.
Your mama's such a coder, she calls herself this
[June 24] Ten years ago today, while taking a walk through Portland, Oregon, I decided to call a young woman I'd met on eHarmony. It wasn't a convenient time for her to take a call, but she made time, and it was the first of many phone conversations before we met and eventually bought a house and got married. Happy talkaversary, Jessie!
Whenever I hear the name Al Pacino, I imagine canned dog food with steamed milk.
Your mama's such a drama queen, her house only has three walls.
ou notice nobody's pitting IBM's Watson, or Google or Siri, against spelling bee champions. I asked Google how to spell Tchefuncte, and it thought I said Chick-fil-A.
I just got my first bifocals, and now the whole world is like my workspace: two monitors, the top one 1080p, the bottom one 4x.
We're hosting a couchsurfer named Bruce and his father, who arrived late last night. I just met the father, and his name is also Bruce. I said, "just to keep things simple," and they both laughed. I feel like I've been waiting my whole life to use that line. #MontyPythonFTW
Now that the Doctor will be the same age and gender as her daughter Jenny, they should team up against Missy and have an all female episode.
OK, so The Doctor's Daughter was a Russell T. Davies episode, but according to Wikipedia, having Jennie survive without the Doctor's knowledge was Moffatt's idea. River lives on inside a computer on the Doctor Moon, even though the Doctor acts like she's dead. He also acts like Rory and Amy are dead, even though they're living out their lives in NYC, and he could visit them anytime he'd like to take the train from Jersey. He's forgotten Clara existed, and though he could certainly piece together the evidence if he wanted, he has no way of knowing that she's off seeing the universe with the Lady Me. And now Bill -- he thinks Bill died, and it's his fault. Not only doesn't he know the Pilot rescued her, he doesn't know Bill and the Pilot ever had that conversation.
So unless I'm leaving someone out, we've now got six female companions (and one male) that the Doctor presumes are dead, but that are alive. That's a great opportunity for them to team up and stage some kind of intervention objecting to his thoughtless behavior toward them, and the Christmas special would be the perfect opportunity, since we know it results in the Doctor's becoming a woman.
To avoid being a slipper, please wear non-slip slippers.
I think in hindsight, we'll realize that making memory cards so small they can be vacuumed up or swallowed without our noticing was a bad idea.
Many thanks to Gail Fuller for bringing Dr. Don Huber to Emporia (en route to Copenhagen) to talk about the dangers of glyphosate and GM crops. I know many of my friends are under the impression that Science is all on the side of biotech, and the critics have nothing. I am increasingly convinced that the opposite is true, as it was for the tobacco companies in 1990, and we're about to see a reversal of fortune as we did then, provided we live long enough. Thanks again, Gail.
"If you hurt the environment, the environment will definitely fight back. It is that simple." Well no, it's not, because people in poverty don't exactly have a lot of other options. The people who cut the forests are not the same people who were living downslope from the mud.
The word methicillin always makes me imagine the Beastie Boys doing a PSA.
In the dream I had just before walking, people were making a full length musical of M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. Which is a terrible idea, but I can't get the power ballad out of my head, which means it was catchier than Allegiance.
If I didn't have plenty of other reservations about the integrity of Twitter, the fact that my login *never ever* times out would make me suspicious. I swear I haven't used it in over a year, but somehow my browser is still logged in? Why even bother having a login at all?
I'm gonna have to say my three favorite Star Wars movies are Serenity, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, and The Force Awakens, in that order. Maybe Empire can be in 4th place.
I understand Harvey has been downgraded from a hurricane to a pooka. Stay safe out there.
There's a whole generation of kids learning that the reason to cover your face when you sneeze is so you don't freak out your touchscreen devices.
It's creepy how good Google Photos' facial recognition is, even correctly matching babies to their older selves, but then it seems to think all statues and paintings are the same person. Sounds like the premise of a Doctor Who episode.
Kombucha has ruined me for sweet tea. I'm like, "this is too fresh."
If you think birds and butterflies have an inalienable right to migrate across national borders, but people do not, you might not be a humanist.
Ben's sleepy afternoon thought: What if you went into a tanning salon, and there were a bunch of ladies making leather out of cowhide? All the cool kids are doing it
It cracks me up that some folks who advocate carrying handguns for self defense are now [after Charlottesville protest] saying that those who use violence in self defense are no better than their attackers. Funny how you didn't find that argument persuasive when we were talking about you.
It's that thing where somebody used an animation of turning gears to indicate something is working, but the adjacent gears are turning the same direction. All the teeth are going to grind off
Is a group of monarch butterflies an oligarchy?
You might have a dead-end job, but you'll never wait as long for a promotion as Captain Jack Harkness.
There's a lot I don't know about football, but it seems to me that if Nebraska is going to go crazy firing people every time they lose a game, that's a HUGE incentive to all the other teams.
[review of The Market Basket] This restaurant is so white it hurts. I got two kinds of culturally assimilated chicken salads - Mandarin and curry - and they are both so bland I'm not sure I could tell the difference in a blind test. $17.
The soundtrack from Sucker Punch is so inextricably linked to the action in my mind, that when the songs come on the Pandora station here at the coffee shop, suddenly I am fighting robots on a maglev train on Titan.
On my way home from the hardware store this evening, I lost 3 out of 5 newly purchased tote lids out of my truck and didn't realize it until I got home. I retraced my path immediately and was just in time to watch one get run over by a semi (which had no choice, swinging wide for a turn) and one by a police car (which changed lanes at exactly the right time to run it over). I was standing on the side of the road with the third, undamaged lid in my hand, waiting for a gap in traffic to step out and get the still-pristine lid, and then bam, it was trash. I'm sure he had more important things to think about, but still, thanks a lot, officer. [a friend commented: "Protect and swerve"]
Watching Wonder Woman a second time, I can't help noticing the Germans had IBC totes about 80 years before they were invented.
The sole survivor of the meth lab explosion that killed his parents, young Dexter Roberts struggled to find his place in the world, until he discovered he had the superhuman ability to suppress other people's coughs, without drowsiness. Now he roams the streets and subways during cold season, alert to the sounds of coughing in a world gone to the germs. He is... DEXTRO, METH ORPHAN
Is westernization the polar opposite of orientation?
I feel like a film with a Hans Zimmer soundtrack would be a great place to cover up a bad case of explosive flatulence. BWOMMMP! [whale noises]
Everybody talks about bridezilla, but nobody talks about groomothra.
It's that thing where your decision to use the electric dryer instead of the clothesline has nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with the quantity of animal hair on the laundry.
Elon Musk looks suspiciously like Captain Jack Harkness. Has anyone ever seen the two of them together? Actually, I guess that wouldn't prove anything.
It's a shame no one was working Ground Control when the Hindenburg landed.
Rewatching Blade Runner, I'm glad I didn't upgrade my Android to a Nexus 6 in 2016.
I can't see the phrase "Amazon Prime" now without thinking of Hippolyta.
I'm loving the sound of thunder right now. The gods are bowling. If lightning doesn't reach the ground, it's not a strike, it's a spare.
It's funny that a generation of students have been taught that Wikipedia is not a reliable source, yet the news media routinely quote Twitter.
I don't understand the popular theory that a tame social event can be improved by turning the music volume up to the point that speech and thought become impossible.
Though we adore Baby Boomers individually, we agree that as a group they're rah-thah stew-pid ♫
Our truck's license plate ends in HPW. The way I remember it is, "what did ensign Chekov get on shore leave?"
I remember in elementary school, we had a principal we called Mr. Kasbaum. Thinking back, he probably had a doctorate, but he must not have wanted us to call him that, in the '80s, for some reason. Or maybe the sheriff didn't like it. DOC-tor Kasbaum, DOC-tor Kasbaum.
You know that comic strip, Shoe, where there was a bar for birds that was on a tree branch? How come the bartender never said, "I'm cutting you off"? Sorry, that's a joke for Twitter
I love it when people get indignant about the word "discover." They're like, "Columbus didn't discover America, there were already people here." I'm like, "You just demonstrated what the word discover means, because people who had read the definition already knew that, and yet it was news to you."
In the near future, you'll know your refrigerator is running because it will call random children asking for you.
Don't let anyone tell you there's no such thing as the War On Christmas. We might not have a country today if Washington hadn't crossed the Delaware on the night of December 25.
The sad thing about going through my old photo negatives is finding all the pictures of weddings of couples who are now divorced. Good photos of happy people, but nobody wants to see them again.
Whenever I see the word Rubicon, I can't help imagining an evil robot that transforms into a multicolored cube. You don't pull de mask off de ol' Lone Ranger, and you don't cross de Rubicon.
Yeah... The plot of The Winter Soldier doesn't make any more sense the second time.
The Doctor Strange theme is just an up-tempo rendition of the Harry Potter theme.
After yesterday morning's Texas-shaped waffle iron, this morning's hotel in New Mexico has a waffle iron depicting the Four Corners.
I was unprepared for how run-down Tucumcari, NM is. I think it must be the inspiration for Radiator Springs in the movie Cars.
What is the CW of the CW? Or are they just warning us about their content in general?
Is a Baby Driver bigger or smaller than a Minnie?
Jessie says before she met me, she'd never played Monopoly with anyone who bought properties. Apparently they just went around and around the board, collecting $200, taking their Chances and trying not to go to jail. #ClassDifferencesInAmerica
Whenever someone defines religion as "binding back together," I want to ask if that's how Christian Bale got his name.
I was noticing the other day how many contemporary Christmas songs just seem to say "it's Christmastime" over and over, as if they are afraid it is not actually Christmastime.
Is there a single character in the Star Wars galaxy whose father didn't die or desert them?
That question at the post office, "Does it contain anything liquid, fragile, perishable, or potentially hazardous?" always makes me feel philosophical. I mean, don't we all, really?
I don't know that The Last Jedi is in my top 5 Star Wars movies, but that's only because Serenity and Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 are solidly in first and second place.
It's redundant to say that the new tax plan will create a trillion dollars in debt. Every dollar is a dollar of debt. The only question is who is holding the debt.
I wouldn't call myself a classical music geek, but it does bug me that the logo for Symfony (a Web programming framework) is the symbol for sforzato, and the logo for Composer (a package manager used with Symfony) is clearly a director. Semantics be damned, I suppose.
Ophira Eisenberg could call herself ommetta-ornithophobia (a fear of eyes and birds).
You know, the shell (command line) on a Chromebook is limited, but at least it *knows* it's limited. The terminal on a Mac in Recovery Mode doesn't know it's limited. There is no `man` command or `info`, but if you try `help`, it suggests you try `man` or `info`. I remember when Macs had help that was actually useful... back in 1991...
Why is Mr. In Between the only one in the song who has a title instead of a definite article? Would "don't mess with the in between" sound too ominous?