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I still do the Peter Griffin "ehh ehh" thing on titles in dialogue.

I wouldn't be surprised if they let him back into the backrooms, yeah - nothing team facing, of course. I certainly wouldn't expect them to let him at the games or anything. Seems like there's precedence for unbanning of rich sports owner types. But I already said I know nothing about the...

I'm not a basketball watcher at all, but I know the playoffs are going on right now, which are with hundreds of millions to the NBA I'm sure. A lot of this just sounds like them protecting themselves. What if sponsors started dropping over this, or one or two important players went on...

"NDT is about to Crack an egg of knowledge on your ass" is NDTs favorite tweet. Edit: it took me a few to get the GoT reference.

Been seeing some stuff on Nuclear Fusion lately. BBC News - UK centre to shoot for nuclear fusion record Then saw this: Between this, renewables, and some of the promising new battery tech we're seeing...could be an exciting time in 20 or so years.

Pretty much this. He just didn't use the euphemisms the media and most other crazies have learned to use to temper it.

I think Qarth has a few franchises. Yo quero mi Dragones!!!!

Holy fucking shit - that was an amazing, intense episode. Not even going to try to say anything else.

Yes. Why would I have any idea what GRRM is going to do? I said it would be a nice twist, not that I expected it to happen. Y'all need to adjust your panties... I wasn't suggesting Ned get killed off or anything.

More of a musing on how much the TV show will change the books.

No, they need a good up-and-coming character to bite it. Peeps in NO Spoilers are probably thinking "Finally, this is the dude who's gonna pwn Tywin and bring balance to the Lannisters/Tyrells". Does Oberyn in the show remind anyone else of Ricardo Maltoban? I always kind of hoped Dany...

Well, the "word" Brienne yelled to uncat saved her life from hanging when she and Pod were strung up. We see Brienne later, so it obviously saved her. But any mention of Podrick has yet to happen, so we need to wait to see what Evil Santa did to him.

Looks like an alien face on it. Definitely extra-terrestrial. If it were me I'd be trying to bust it open, but I have a thing for breaking rocks.

But it's a show, and I guess I'm just not feeling him - Once he starts getting a ton more screen time as he does become important to Dany's development maybe I'll like him. Maybe I'm just jealous that he's tappin dat and I'm not.

I couldn't care less what he looks like, but so far his character has done nothing to make me think Dany would have any interest in him. He's not very charming, or loyal, and isn't enough of a bad ass to pull off the bad boy deal. He gave her a flower once, and killed a horse for her...

I was doing some reading on Patterson, and apparently the "duck soup" comment that was made actually occurred. I couldn't find anything about him freaking out as portrayed in last night's episode, though he was pretty big on trying to get lead out of our lives. Lead was still being used in...

I think that's part of what makes Tywin Tywin. His first son only wants to play soldier boy, his daughter's a pure cunt, and the one with an actual brain not only killed his wife but is a dwarf. Joffrey was a cruel twat, which leaves Tommen, who is still pliable. Even though his speech was...

I only realized he was the villain from Last Action Hero during his dialogue with Tommen.

From this coming Sunday's Cosmos. I have to say I really love the history bits. It's nice to have that context.

Fair enough.

To be fair, you're making a testable hypothesis, which is the start of good science. I would much rather this than blind faith = the end. Alchemy was the father of chemistry. Without the observations made in alchemy, modern chemistry wouldn't exist. It was Newton's contemporary Boyle who...

At least we are all accepting science requires a testable hypothesis. Things that are not testable should be kept in the realm of fiction and imagination.

Good show. Judge chilled on the coke long enough (seriously, I was having a beer with him at SXSW once and he left to go do coke) to push this out, and it's interesting to see, even satirically, some of the stereotypes and positions of those in the tech industries.

When (books wise) did this happen? I do not recall it.

How often did a scientist invoke god and then recant, saying oh, wait, I looked into it more and figured it out! Seriously, I'd love to be enlightened to the anomalies, but as far as I know this has never happened. It's other people/scientists who decide to look into it more. Newton lived...

I don't think anyone is saying you can't be religious and a good scientist. There are plenty of religious scientists even now who are religious. However, I would make two points. a) As you raise through the "tiers" of scientists, those that deal with physics, astrophysics, and biology...

Where exactly did I say only atheists know any science? Science doesn't belong to any religion or affiliation. I said non-religious people are under-represented, especially here in the US. However, those who believe the world is 6000 years old, and many other religious persons do refuse to...

I think we definitely have problems here in the US, and obviously places like the ME, but the rest of the world seems to be heading on the right track.What's interesting is that, thanks to the northern European countries that are heavily atheistic, if you total all religions/beliefs among the...

There are theories that Mance is actually Rhaegar. I don't buy those either. But... The more I think about it, the more of a possibility it is that Varys is a Targaryan. He's been working on disrupting the current power and getting the Targaryans back in power. He keeps his head shaven...

Unless he's actually Rhaegar, who fled across the narrow sea and became a eunich-slave!! There are crazier conspiracies (maybe).

Both events are in SoS, and timewise happen very close to each other. In the books, Jaime misses the wedding completely as he's still with Brienne on the way back and doesn't even have a hand until FFC. Joff's wedding goes on as soon as the War is over (red wedding). Pretty sure there were...

Olenna cares about Margaery and spent a lot of time finding out exactly the type of person Joff was - The wedding night might not have been a pretty thing for Margaery, and Joff's tastes are more to the sadistic/perverted than normal sex (he's supposed to be only 13). It was shown that Margaery...

That's what makes it so fun! D&D are always doing real subtle things like this to amuse and keep bookreaders wondering. The deed never was described in the books, so when you translate this to a show where the scene IS depicted, of course it's going to be scrutinized. I wanna see if I can get...

LF played both sides. He got the poison for Olenna, who had her own plot to kill Joffrey and blame Dorne. Afterwards they would marry Tommen to Margaery as he would be a much more suitable puppet than Joffrey was (Joffrey just didn't listen). During Tyrion's trial Obryn visits him and tells...

It's all kind of moot since they are all complicit in the deed, regardless of how it was done in the show. We may get the actual details later. I wouldn't expect someone to look down in the cup and drop something into it from a few inches above, though. Since Margaery is closest to the king...

It looks like Margaery is putting something into the cup before she sets it down. Look at the awkward finger placement/movement in the slowed down portion...the movement and placement is consistent with something being slipped in.