ounceofreason asked if anyone could summarize Candide in one paragraph. Alas, it took me considerably more than that. Candide: Are you sure this is the best of all possible worlds? Exiled, drafted, flogged with bulls' pizzles, my love Cunegonde and her whole family massacred, and now we're in Lisbon and the place gets flattened by an earthquake. Personally, I think my life sucks. Pangloss...

Netflix is doing away with their "profile" feature, which allows people to set up individual queues under one account. This allows seperate recommendations, reviews, and we had it set up so we had a "his" queue, "hers" queue, and "ours". At any time, we would have one movie from each. Now there is just going to be one long queue, and my recommendations and reviews will be gone. There is a huge backlash...

I was recommended this book by the illustrious ounceofreason . I paraphrase, but I think he described it as a book about cosmology and heartbreak. Janna Levin, is a leading young scientists in theoretical astrophysics and wrote this book in the form of a collection of explanatory letters to her mother. She peppers her descriptions of concepts in cosmology with occasional glimpses of her life...