what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “If life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like ‘Whaaat?’” Haley is off to college, and Lily starts kindergarten. Gloria has her baby, while Cam and Mitch attempt to adopt a second child. Cam gets a new job, and Jay teaches Phil to golf. Phil and Claire’s Valentines’ Day ends with […]
{4.5/5} “Any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet — just needs the right broom.” Hitch is known as the Date Doctor — he helps men get dates with the women they’ve fallen for. At the moment he’s helping accountant Albert get a date with famous actress Allegra. Sara is a gossip […]
{5/5} “I just want to feel like me for as long as I can.” Cathy is going through chemo, which is making her feel horrible in itself. She wants to play “The Entertainer” on the piano and tells Paul he should get remarried after she dies. Paul is giving seminars and writing a book. Andrea […]
{5/5} “In the long run, the best strategy for cultural longevity was either to sit tight in a single system, or become like the Lines, entirely unshackled from planetary life. Expansionism worked for a while, but was ultimately futile. Not that that stopped new emergents from trying, even when they had six million years of […]
{5/5} “I was thinking of writing a book called ‘A Brief History of the Time I Made Stephen Hawking Cry Like a Little Girl.’” Howard has some trouble with the other astronauts on the Space Station, Sheldon hires an assistant, Penny takes a college class, and Sheldon and Howard fight over a parking spot. Sheldon […]
{5/5} “The notion of transwarp beaming is like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet whilst wearing a blindfold riding a horse.” James T. Kirk is attending Starfleet Academy when the fleet is called to investigate something unusual happening on Vulcan. When the Enterprise arrives they discover that it’s being attacked by Nero, a […]
{4.5/5} “If a happening happened and you didn’t know that it happened, did it happen?” Jess loses her teaching job, and Cece gets engaged. Winston and Jess decide to get a bathtub installed in the apartment, and Nick thinks that one person in Jess’s writing class is really a killer. Nick and Schmidt celebrate being roommates for 10 […]
Here’s a fascinating article by Kevin Drum from Mother Jones. He argues that rate of change in artificial intelligence matches that of computing power — it doubles about every 18 months (a phenomenon known as Moore’s Law). This means that for the first while it seems like nothing is happening and then suddenly everything happens […]
{5/5} “There’s only two things to do at the docks, kill someone or go fishing. It’s a little late to go fishing, isn’t it?” Castle and Beckett are finally together, but will it last? And can they keep it a secret from Captain Gates? Beckett finally discovers who’s responsible for her mother’s murder. Following the clues […]
{4.5/5} “You ever wonder if this constant pursuit for revenge is the reason we’ve no one who cares for us?” Magic is brought to Storybrooke — and everyone remembers their past as characters from the enchanted forest. But people still can’t leave town — if they do, they’ll lose their memory. Then the one person who’s capable of […]