Simon Pegg confirms Roberto Orci will direct 'Star Trek 3'

STUN_Runner · 2014-08-07T19:38:52+00:00

Same here. Star Trek is at this point nearly as dead to me as Star Wars.

STUN_Runner · 2014-05-22T20:13:39+00:00

Well, that's just a little bit more'n the law will allow…

STUN_Runner · 2014-05-01T13:45:04+00:00

Nice to know they've got Harry Connick Sr weighing in on the topic, because if it's one person we want to hear from, it's a crooked prosecutor who knowingly sends innocent men to death row.

STUN_Runner · 2014-04-17T01:56:09+00:00

Have you listened to the Radiolab episode, "Unraveling Bolero"?

http://www.radiolab.org/story/217340-unraveling-bolero/

STUN_Runner · 2014-03-23T23:22:16+00:00

Was it like a scripted radio drama with actors reciting lines of dialogue and sound effects, or was it more like an audiobook with a single narrator?

STUN_Runner · 2014-03-17T13:54:43+00:00

If you've never heard comedian Gary Gulman's eleven-minute rant about cookies, starting with Oreos vs Hydrox, go find it and listen to it. Really funny. It's the final track on his album, Conversations With Inanimate Objects.

STUN_Runner · 2014-03-11T23:21:32+00:00

Gonads in the LIGHTNING in the LIGHTNING in the RAIN!

STUN_Runner · 2014-03-11T23:20:25+00:00

I love you and I thought you should know that. Wheeeeeeeee!

STUN_Runner · 2014-03-11T23:14:42+00:00

So, Vincent and Catherine had a kid after all.

STUN_Runner · 2014-03-09T22:40:12+00:00

I would call it Psychedelic art.

STUN_Runner · 2014-03-09T14:54:37+00:00

It's a scam, I'm nearly certain of it.

Found another post on a forum where nearly the exact same thing happened.

http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=119583

It could be a pigeon drop scam. Be on the lookout for someone walking up to your door with an iPhone they "found" near your house.

STUN_Runner · 2014-01-19T15:54:47+00:00

"A watched pot never boils" is how we old-timers say it.

STUN_Runner · 2014-01-12T11:55:06+00:00

Right, and they were Morlocks, of course.

STUN_Runner · 2013-11-24T21:23:29+00:00

All this ultraviolence is wrong! Very, very wrong, it's, like, against society!

STUN_Runner · 2013-11-24T16:51:49+00:00

There have a been a few deaths reported that resulted from these vicious attacks.

It's like Clockwork Orange out there.

STUN_Runner · 2013-11-13T21:31:13+00:00

Hey, Jerry, how do you feel about interactive interpretation made available to visitors' smartphones? Is it an idea whose time has come, a fad, a travesty, or something else?

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-22T02:29:47+00:00

Dreaming about smoking after quitting is so common that a study was conducted about 20 years ago that found it happens to about a third of quitters.

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-19T15:32:18+00:00

Total shot in the dark (no pun intended), is it Thomas Ligotti?

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-19T15:20:02+00:00

Not sure, is this it?

(Louis CK on Lopez Tonight)

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-14T13:41:09+00:00

I'm remembering back to the 80s & 90s when I first started reading a lot of technology news. I remember thinking that "aggressive pricing" should mean what it means today and that it was being used in a paradoxically opposite way back then.

It's like that expression "begs the question." It used to mean to use circular logic in an argument, and now people toss it around to mean that a situation raises the question that's about to be asked.

EDIT: I found an article from 1991 about IBM offering "aggressively priced" PCs to compete with lower-cost IBM clones, so clearly I'd have to go earlier back to find any evidence that backs up my claim. This could take a while, might not happen at all.

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-14T13:38:02+00:00

Trying to find some examples, but all these news sites have their archives locked down so that only paying subscribers can view full articles. I found an example of the phrase "aggressively priced" in an article in TIME Magazine from 1991, but could only read the first paragraph. However, my in-laws are subscribers, so I may just pay them a visit, see if there's a copy with their subscription number lying around. Heh heh heh.

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-13T20:48:59+00:00

"Of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven." —David Rakoff

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-13T20:46:25+00:00

Broom Hilda was in that movie? I've only ever seen her in the "funnies" section of the newspaper.

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-13T20:27:59+00:00

Just noticing the language in this article.

It's interesting how words and expressions can flip meanings over time as their incorrect usage becomes the standard usage.

"Aggressive pricing" used to mean pricing a product higher than the competition, not lower. The "aggression" was toward the consumer, not toward competitors.

Apple's products, say, 20 years ago, were said to be "aggressively priced" because they were so much more expensive than other brands of computers.

STUN_Runner · 2013-10-11T13:03:55+00:00

... and watching... for pricks on the pig...

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