guess I can't respond to the calls or automated alerts I get on my phone, the latter of which require keypad entry to acknowledge.

The next Dr. Who: Will Ferrell. Just shoot me now.

Clearly a problem of relativity. While you may not be able to see your anus, your doctor can, and as he shoves his gloved fist up into the brown dimension the observed properties vary with the distance and speed that his fist travels. QED.

X-COM, Terror From the Deep started? Leave it where it is!

I can hear the little kids on a field trip to the planetarium... "the stars are bright! I can see the Milky Way! Wow, the stars are hot and LOUD..."

damn, beaten to the punchline. Think they know they'll need interior defenses to keep the ghouls and nightkin down?

you're gonna have to let him touch the pipes.

really this thread is 'over in 1', as I totally agree with the initial comment. Ad-hoc servers on the net, you're lucky they don't give it and you the boot.

when badly coded MTA software would get a reply-to-all with embedded email groups in it, misprocess the groups, and go into a exponentially-growing loop that brings down the server (happened in an office where I worked, Groupwise was the app). That'd show those reply-all types.

At my current job tho, people hate being left out of the loop, so reply-alls are the norm, rather than the exception. "Think before typing" hasn't been repealed, people just act like it has.

The quarter-million fake accounts here can reply to the presumably equal number of fakes on match.com. Pardon me while I go register DNS names for virtual wedding sites; they're sure to be a hit!

A restaurant, maybe?

I see they haven't figured out our advanced potato cannon technology yet.

Aside from whatever extra cash it may have generated, Niven and Asimov both revisited their flagship works after long layoffs to tie up loose ends in the stories. Easier to do that with a sequel than a prequel. With a prequel all you do is mess with the story that people think they already know and, broadly generalizing, that tends to piss people off (e.g. SW Episodes 1-3 as prequel for Episode 4).

Pulling my copy of Foundation's Edge off the shelf (old school print, yo!)...and your suspicion about the publisher's wishes shows up in the afterword... it's all references to other books that would now tie in to the new storyline. Bald-faced profiteering! This is why I avoid sequels (and prequels) and look for the new, fresh stuff. Good for director Scott, I hope this new project is worth watching.

As someone who has owned a video copy of SW since RCA Selectavision (gack), I welcome our new format overlords.

The only thing that elevates 2012 over the monstrosity that was The Core is the 'little commuter plane that could' in 2012, you know, the one that pulls off turns, dives and climbs that an F-22 would envy. otoh, Woody Harrelson being blown up by the Yellowstone caldera? yeah, i'd buy that. besides, the Bad Astronomy guy has been doing this list for years. NASA must love old ideas as much as they like old computer hardware.

The IT org where I work now, in a Fortune 25 company, is trying to boot all the support people out to WFH, so that they can house the contractors and resident offshore peeps in cheaper digs (main building instead of renting extra space for them). So nobody here cares what size their cube is, since the cubes are about 2/3 empty now, and many are used simply as hotel space.

btw, typing this from my cube at work, since it's now much quieter here ;0.