This is actually a plus, if you think it through.

My wife prefers male OB/GYNs, because they're much gentler, always make sure their hands are warm, etc. Female OB/GYNs don't care, and are much "rougher" in her experience.

YMMV.

If we can find a casket that looks like a photon torpedo, so much the better.

I believe you're looking for Eternal Image's Star Trek Casket, inspired by the scene you describe.

Really? I heard it was food poisoning from a nine-year-old weiner.

...can they run Linux?

Thanks for the ad hominem attack, I really enjoyed it!

Do you do parties?

I wasn't real happy with the movie or with some of the changes (Spock and Uhura as an item? gimme a break....)

I actually found that one of the more enjoyable changes. Maybe this is only known to people who have read about the behind-the-scenes history of Trek, but in the TOS episode Plato's Stepchildren, Kirk and Uhura shared the first onscreen interracial kiss -- except it was supposed to be Spock and Uhura. Bill Shatner threw a fit, he was "the star" and deserved the honor, so they rewrote it.

Just about any other pairing would have made me roll my eyes as you are, but I like to think this is a nod to an original, unaired timeline.

Really, welcome to the world of technology as governed by Moore's Law.

On the other hand...

However many years ago, I'd saved up for a new 10GB iPod. I ordered it, decided what I wanted to have engraved on the back, and settled in for a week or two of excited waiting. A few days later, Apple announced a refresh of the iPod product line -- which included a 15GB 3rd-gen iPod at the price-point I'd just bought a 10GB. I spent a few minutes kicking myself before realizing that I had no way of knowing, them's the breaks, etc., and resigned myself to enjoying my outdated-before-I-even-received-it iPod.

The next day, I received an email from Apple letting me know that they were sending me the new 15GB model, not the 10GB I'd ordered.

I don't know if this was a lucky one-off or if this was their policy at the time, or if it's their policy now, but it did earn Apple a lot of respect in my book.

My understanding has always been that doing things like eye transplants are currently impossible, because the eye directly integrates with the brain -- the retina blends into the optic nerve which blends into the brain. As Neal Stephenson said in Snow Crash (paraphrased horribly), if you look into someone's eyes, you're actually looking into their brain. Our current level of understanding and experience with neurobiology precludes brain transplants, which in turn precludes eye transplants.

Until we have that kind of knowledge, I don't see how any kind of eye replacement, whether via transplant or some kind of bionic prosthesis, will be possible. Of course, IANANB (I Am Not A Neurobiologist).

Dear God, why is this modded Informative?

Clearly they should start using black flags as well, to mark the unmarked lines.

...you FIND A NEW GOD.

I own both a physical print and audiobook of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. You might recall that Y.T. (a fifteen-year-old girl) and Raven (a 30- or 40-something man) fuck near the end.

I'll go quietly, officers.

Then how did you know it was slashdotted?

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