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08/31/09
*slaps hand on the table* Sold. I'll be there for the premier.
08/30/09
Star Trek: Countdown was very close to the line. It was a good comic, and made the movie much more logical; but without having read the comic, I would have seen Nero as a flat, two-dimensional villain whose motivations are not properly explained. As far as I'm concerned that's a huge flaw. If you can't tell the complete story without making fans search for the rest of the information, something's wrong.
08/30/09
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08/30/09
We accept you! We accept you! We accept you!
One of us!
08/31/09
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12/22/08
There are some aspects of Chinese cuisine that are truly wonderful--mu shu pork, humbow and ma bo tufu--and there other aspects that clearly ought to be listed in arms limitation treaties--thousand year old eggs.
That being the case, I say that Sweden and Norway have much to answer for in lutefisk. Maybe the Swedish Batman can:
1) Serve as an ambassador who explains lutefisk to a shocked and appalled planet.
or
2) Hand out a little vigilante justice to the cooks that make lutefisk. The deranged maniacs really deserve it.
12/22/08
12/22/08
@Annalee Newitz: What about Green Arrow? That's pretty close to being a Batman, just more "flamboyant".
12/22/08
12/22/08
Writing, HARD!
12/22/08
Just lettin' ya know there.
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12/22/08
Maybe the problem is that these books are written by ex-nerds, who are trying to convince everyone they're cool now. Let's get a current nerd to write a book about nerd childhood next time.
12/23/08
There are much better ones out there, such as "Nerds."
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11/06/08
You try to close the airlock. Make a saving throw against your agility:
1 Botched Throw: Your bag of chips explodes and, while you float around, munching, you crash into the ant farm. You destroy years of research into ants' ability to sort tiny screws in a weightless environment.
Failed Throw: James Taylor forces you to listen to his easy listening adult contemporary music, including all of his hits from the Seventies
Successful Throw: You close the airlock door, saving the supply of Tang from being sucked into the cold pitiless vacuum of space.
19-20 Critical Hit: You find an inanimate carbon rod and wedge it in the door handle. When you get back to Earth, they throw a parade in honor of a true American hero -
The Inanimate Carbon Rod
11/06/08
One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted JerseyCam personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
11/06/08
[en.wikipedia.org])
11/06/08
As for these things, I can picture it now. "Aw look, one of the Spheres used it's magnet to pick up that knife. Wait, why is it coming this way? First Law, FIRST LAW!!!"
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[Corpore breaks into his math nerd snort!]
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These are truncated rhombic dodecahedrons:
[en.wikipedia.org]
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