• Richard Dawkins:
  Periodical cicadas emerge all together every 17 (or 13) years http://huff.to/1aQ19wO . Is it significant that their cycle is a prime number?

@RichardDawkins Primes reduce odds of two broods emerging at same time, competing for food. Only happens every 221 years.

• Phil Plait:
  My choices: @timminchin. Jennifer Saunders. Chiwetel Ejiofor. @thebloggess. #DoctorWho

• Peter Sagal:
  @BadAstronomer Dude. Why hold back. IDRIS ELBA. #DrString

@petersagal @badastronomer Second time I’ve seen this name tweeted in 20 minutes. This could become a meme.

?@Mike_FTW: RT @BreakingNews Idris Elba to take on role of Doctor Who.? // THAT… would be. SO. AWESOME.

• Jason Snell:
  I love Matt Smith, but being a #DoctorWho fan is all about change, my dear, and not a moment too soon. Bring on the 12th…

@jsnell Aren’t we supposed to be assuming it’s the 13th at this point?

• Jason Snell:
  @jeffporten all part of Moffat’s evil plan

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell why are we assuming there is only ONE former doctor they?ve hidden from us?

@chuq @jsnell That would be one hell of a season: Clara w/ in-between Doctors from the classic show.

• Jason Snell:
  @jeffporten @chuq In Big Finish audios the 8th Doctor lost a companion who was then picked up by the 6th. Wacky.

@jsnell @chuq I’ve been veeerrrryyy slowly catching up on classic Who?currently on Pertwee ’72. Big Finish comes next if I’m not “done”.

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell it?s interesting to wander back into Old Who. But I cut my teeth on Tom Baker and faded after Davison.

@jsnell @chuq Come to think of it, the much wackier crossover is the 5th Doctor being the 10th’s father-in-law.

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell at some level your definition of ?who? is defined by where you came in on the timeline.

@chuq @jsnell Tom Baker was “my” Doctor on PBS, but never watched consistently enough to remember it.

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell that said, this new incarnation is my favorite by far. Tennant/Smith faves, then Eccleston, then baker.

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell Pertwee?s doctor can best be described as, well, quaint. and troughton is tough to get into.

@chuq @jsnell I dunno. Hartnell/Troughton/Pertwee all have their moments; main reasons I dislike some shows is variable writing quality.

@chuq @jsnell I suspect Troughton would be fave of the 1st three if more of his eps were available. As is, tie with Pertwee.

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell yeah. (I?m really curious how BBC is going to handle the next couple of ?history of the doctor? specials?..)

@chuq @jsnell New series not being judged in same breath as classic. Like comparing Shatner to Pine?audiences/productions too different.

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell The tom baker episode, frankly, came across as ?man,he?s a jerk, but we have to do this?.?

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell agreed. and old series were aimed at children. New series is for adults. huge difference.

• Jason Snell:
  @jeffporten @chuq I think that doesn?t go far enough, because 1963 Doctor Who was nothing like 1983 either.

@jsnell @chuq I’ll let you know when I get there. Sometime in 2018 at the rate I’m going.

@jsnell @chuq I’m genuinely curious to see if 6th and 7th are as atrocious as I’ve been warned.

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell Colin Baker wasn?t terrible, but? wasn?t much. And after that, it was time for the series to hibernate. But it didn?t.

• Jason Snell:
  @chuq @jeffporten Even the old show had elements (like the female assistants) that were ?for the dads”

• Jason Snell:
  @jeffporten @chuq There are some great 6th episodes, actually. Notably Vengeance on Varos and Revelation of the Daleks.

• Jason Snell:
  @jeffporten @chuq 7th is insane. I?m not a fan. It?s like a pure fantasy series at that point.

@jsnell @chuq Watching the Jo Grant seasons now, which makes that obvious. And Wendy Padbury stands out among prior companions.

• Chuq Von Rospach:
  @jeffporten @jsnell I?m still partial to Leela, but god, that?s probably my age at the time speaking.

• Wil Wheaton:
  Matt Smith is not your bitch. If he’s finished being The Doctor, the only thing we say is, “thank you.”

@wilw Agreed, but it’s not like it’s *our* fault that a certain SF series set 7 seasons as the satiation point.

?@bbcdoctorwho: Jenna is not on Twitter, so be wary of imposters!” // Maybe you should have thought of that before making millions of her.

More upset about Matt Smith than Jean Stapleton. I think that officially makes me an asshole.

• Patrick Matthews:
  @jeffporten We’ve known that unofficially for some time :)

@matthews_p PGA statute of limitations has expired and is supposed to be expunged from my record.

MT ?@stephenfry: That moment during a massage when you let loose a rasping breakage of wind // Just call it A Bit of Fry & Laurie

• Chris Jericho:
  Do we really need another Superman reboot? Didn?t we just have one like 3 yrs ago??

• Alan Gluck:
  ?@IAmJericho: Do we really need another Superman reboot? Didn?t we just have 1 3 yrs ago???Wrestlers reboot all the time, y not movies?

@Airport_Guy @iamjericho Kind of hoping that this time, Superman isn’t a creepy abuser

• Jesse Spector:
  Do you call the Trivial Pursuit circle-fillers “pie pieces” or “wedges?” Despite my love of pie, I’m a “wedge” man.

@jessespector I call it “haven’t had to use the word since Clinton was president”

Really, the depth of ignorance about the human body by #ExposePP non-ironists makes Todd Akin look… no, actually, he’s still a shit.

If you’re interested in reading the tweets of a bunch of bottom-feeders, mixed in with some randomly amusing parodies, click #ExposePP.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  When does the Smithsonian open the David H. Koch Abuse of Donor Influence Center? Or did they do that already, and I missed it?

@GlennF Probably somewhere near the Enola Gay exhibit.

• Christina Warren:
  While cleaning today, I?ve managed to find old business cards,$200 cash and the iPod nano I bought my dad last year, lost and rebought

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @film_girl I found a $100 bill we had shredded once. No recollection of receiving or shredding.

• Christina Warren:
  @GlennF yeah, how do you shred a $100 bill?

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @film_girl Thankfully, we had strip shredder, not cross cut at that point.

@GlennF @film_girl You’re the guy who lost an original MacBook Air in a manilla envelope, aren’t you?

• Neil Gaiman:
  Are there any good programs for clearing junk files off a full MacBook Air? Or any tips for huge junkfile places to start?

@neilhimself OmniDiskSweeper. http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/ ?

• Rainer Brockerhoff:
  @jeffporten @chuq @glennf FWIW I did several shirts with http://zazzle.com  over 4 years ago and the colors haven’t faded any.