what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{3.5/5} “Better to be king for a night than shmuck for a lifetime.” Rupert Pupkin wants to be a stand-up comedian. He practises in front of a fake audience in his basement. One day he manages to have a conversation with famous and beloved talk show host Jerry Langford. Rupert wants to be on Jerry’s […]
{4/5} “A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy’s shoulders to let him know that the world hadn’t ended.” It’s 8 years after Batman took the fall for the death of Harvey Dent — Bruce Wayne is a recluse in his […]
{4.5/5} “Sir, I am president of the Electronics Club, the Math Club, and the Chess Club. Now if there’s a bigger nerd in here, please… point him out.” The politicians don’t listen to the scientists, and a huge disaster hits the largely unprepared people of Earth. A sudden climate shift begins with a series of […]
{5/5} “I hate campaigning. It’s an Olympic sport in hypocrisy. Fat smokers frowning on and on about their… medical coverage. Smiling when babies with runny noses are shoved in my face. And most of all, I hate lying… telling people that things are going to get better when they never will.” Elaine almost becomes the […]
xkcd is a comic strip on the web I just discovered (although there’s some chance I discovered it in the past and then forgot about it) — it’s done by Randall Munroe. Many comics are based on obscure bits of math or science. It’s sometimes not funny but it’s often very funny. xkcd: A webcomic […]
{4.5/5} “Winston Niles Rumfoord had run his private space ship right into the heart of an uncharted chrono-synclastic infundibulum two days out of Mars. Only his dog had been along. Now Winston Niles Rumfoord and his dog Kazak existed as wave phenomena — apparently pulsing in a distorted spiral with its origin in the Sun […]
What made the ancient theatre of Epidaurus so acoustically great, who made the crystal skulls, and is there a face on Mars — all answered. From Listverse: 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries There are lots more lists on this web site if you’re a fan of lists. As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here are […]
Think you know everything about the Moon? See if you’re right. Feel like you don’t know enough about the Moon? Look right here. From LiveScience: Top 10 Amazing Moon Facts The most amazing thing I ever saw in the sky was a ring around the Moon. Here’s an explanation of the cause (you can also […]
{4.5/5} “I am impure, a mongrel. I am an imposter. And there is more that he doesn’t know. When I tell him what I am, he will look foolish because he has mistaken me for Chinese, he will lose face. We will pretend that nothing was ever said. Then when this job is finished he […]
{4.5/5} “I’m not crazy, I just have another consciousness inside my brain.” In “Aurora” they find an Ancient ship with all of its crew in stasis. When McKay discovers that they’re communicating with each other in stasis, Sheppard goes into stasis himself to find out what they’re saying. In “Duet” McKay and Laura Cadman are […]