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Since I finished the latest Dresden Files, I started to read the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. (That's the 1978 Star Trek 1 movie, for the kids at home.) Wow. Patronizing, sexist, and trying really hard to be "enlightened", but really it all comes off like a teenage boy's...

wow, I guess no one is actually reading what I wrote. one last time: Chase will not allow someone to deposit cash into an account (even that of a friend who is in the hospital with stage 4 cancer), unless the person making the deposit is also a Chase account holder. Example: Samantha is trying...

cyberpunk super computers had a whole gigabyte of memory!!! wow!

Even with a deposit slip from the correct person for the correct account, they are not accepting cash unless the person doing the depositing has a Chase account as well. Person who was to receive deposit was in the hospital. As such could not make the deposit in person. Bills needed to be paid...

Blue stick? The old Luke came with a Yellow Lightsaber stick. Or did you canabalize an Obi-Wan?

I wasn't planning on posting anything for a bit, but it's being an interesting month. :blush: Chase Bank is not accepting cash. :erm: (blink) a bank is not accepting cash. (blink) :confused: OK, the background: Friend A was making a deposit into Friend B's bank account because Friend B was in...

Well, thanks everyone. Sorry for the offense I have caused. Clearly this was the wrong place for venting.

So by not seeing the point of something "purely ceremonial" or "feel good", I might be a sociopath? Hmmm. Maybe part of why I never manage to feel like a joiner?

Used to be you needed a pulse and to have made at least some effort. Don't know what the requirements are now, but they seem to have dropped.

If I want to feel old, I can just talk to my last boss, who is 20 years younger than I. (people sometimes mistake her for my daughter) To her, the Cold war was something the history teacher went on about, James Bond movies don't make sense, and basically she was born 3 years after I graduated...

And for the record, it seems I confused two stories from about the same time. The girl getting the honorary grad was in a coma & brain dead after botched tonsillectomy. The drive-by happened a week later, and that child was killed. Trying to find the fluff-piece that annoyed me so you could see...

Now, what are the chances of any of these actually being any good? We can rule out Spiderman, thanks to kurtzman and orci, and Man of Steel 2 if it has anything whatsoever to do with MoS(1). Aren't there supposed to be a couple of other marvel movies? Tie ins that fall between ASM2 & 3?

I think that's the first honest and useful criticism I've received in weeks. Thank you.

All honorary degrees diminish those who have worked to earn legitimate degrees. I've gone over the fluff reporting several times already. And how, exactly, does this help people "heal"? It seems to me more like a be a slap in the face of something that won't ever happen.

Attention seeking & picking a thorny issue? No, that's more of an OTTer thing. The way it was reported really did bug me. And the implications of honorary degree (in any form) bug me as well. Most kids don't have a problem with the Pledge of Allegiance either. Of course, they aren't (well, I...

"Which makes him what I'd like to call 'One of Bart's People'." One reason it all rang so false was that every kid interviewed in the piece all said the same thing, like they'd been taught a catch phrase about "honoring her" without being told or taught what it means.

Let's simplify here. Item 1: award of achievement without merit. Item 2: tv news fluff reporting Item 1 a problem? debatable. Item 2 a problem? absolutely I might have had fewer problems with item 1, if not for item 2

someone who thinks (insert political activity) is more newsworthy and or important? And that maybe the news should have just let this be something private instead of filling up time with a tear-jerker fluff piece? And those honorary degrees are for people who still accomplished something. Being...

So, you don't think it invalidates or diminishes the accomplishments of those who did the work and put in the efforts?

There was a big fluff piece on the news last night. Last December a girl was hit by stray bullets from a driveby and was rendered brain dead. The parents struggled against the doctors to have her kept alive. The schools made a big fuss about how the girl would have graduated. It seemed so...