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Apr 26

piminnowcheez commented on Next Up in the Slog Netflix Streaming Club: The Young Girls Of Rochefort.

I found this movie hard to sit through (impossible, actually, were it not for a summertime outdoor screening and a bottle of pink wine), but I have to agree with Fnarf about men in white pants and that fucking awesome cafe.

Apr 25

piminnowcheez commented on Did Twitter Kill This Young Man?.

Wait, do we even know how long he'd been dead before he was fished out of the water? Is there *any actual evidence* to that the mis-identification business had anything at all to do with his death? Or that he was even alive to know about it?

Or are you just stirring shit?

Apr 17

piminnowcheez commented on The Science Today: What A See-Through Brain Looks Like.

Hey, we did the Deisseroth paper for journal club in my lab today. Everybody agreed it was nifty technique and made for fabulous pictures, but nobody could think of an experiment where it would actually be useful -- it only works in fixed tissue, and in vivo imaging is where the action is.

Apr 16

piminnowcheez commented on Predictable Trolls Are Predictable.

@7, I would have been so disappointed not to see you here given the post headline.

Jan 31

piminnowcheez commented on The Problem with "Paperman".

HER EYES ARE SO BIG

Jan 17

piminnowcheez commented on This Weekend at SIFF: A Very Good Terrible Movie.

Against the Ninja!

(Dudes, I am so excited about this.)

Jan 17

piminnowcheez commented on This Weekend at SIFF: A Very Good Terrible Movie.

I am DYING to see this movie, in a theater, and b/c I live abroad, I probably won't be able to.

The thing is, I saw some publicity on the Internets for this, and I thought, Y.K. Kim, Y. K. Kim, why does that sound so familiar? Why does that guy look so familiar?

He's familiar because I grew up in Orlando in the 80's, when this movie was made, and when Y. K. Kim had his mug plastered all over billboards on I-4 and on commercials for his dojo all over UHF teevee (Channel 35, w00t!).

Oh, what better way to spend a nostalgia stiffy than to watch 80's martial-arts nerds act out their Hollywood fantasies.

Jan 7

piminnowcheez commented on In the Wake of Harassment, Rape Video Star Is Sorry About Misogynist Comments.

I really don't see a lifetime of diminished employment and social opportunities as just desserts for saying mean things while teenaged.

No doubt that, if all we have to go on is this video, this kid qualifies as loathesome and antisocial. But as far as I know, that IS all most of us (including Cienna) have to go on: based on one 12 minute episode of deplorable speech uttered in adolescence, we're supposed to wish a lifetime of disadvantage on this guy? That seems like some creepy, lynch-mobbish thinking to me.

Nov 27, 2012

piminnowcheez commented on The Bad Taste of Photographing and Posting Something You Are About to Eat.

I don't understand why this is a thing people like to bitch about. If I had a friend who liked to post pictures of birds, or kittens, or their kids, or antique toy robots, or comic books, or any other goddam thing I don't care about but they do, I'd just ignore it without feeling the need to hate on somebody who takes joy in something I'm not interested in. Foodies like food. It's their hobby, it's an interest they use to connect with other people. So what.

Jun 23, 2012

piminnowcheez commented on How Many Words Has Jonah Lehrer Repurposed, Exactly?.

I think the introduction of the word "plagiarism" has set discussions of this story off in the wrong direction. For me, at least, the scandal here is less one about journalistic ethics and more about how a lazy, mediocre writer ascends to such a professional height. I don't care if he's guilty of plagiarism, but I do care that the New Yorker continues to hire hacks.