Meiran commented on io9's (Semi) Annotated Picks for Comic-Con

"I would absolutely love to hit a Max Brooks panel, man am I cranky I'm missing this. Especially since I want to ask him if he actually graduated from American Unviersity's film school, or if he just attended for a while ; )"

Meiran commented on Passengers Stuck Overnight At Dulles—First On Plane, Then In Luggage Area

"@Tmoney02: I could be wrong, but last article I read said that when it came to delayed flights, BWI had the least, then Dulles, and National had the most. I don't fly that much and have never flown out of National, so I wouldn't know from personal experience."

Meiran commented on Reader Refuses To Give Driver's License With Credit Card Purchase

"Interesting, I shop at several different Best Buys in VA and none of them have ever even looked at my card, I swipe it myself at the little machine."

Meiran commented on Tokyopop Tries To Reinvent Itself With SF Licenses

"They're also doing a series based on the Starcraft: Ghost game that never actually made it out of development. Which I'm excited about, but still seems like an odd decision when you put all the others together."

Meiran commented on Wrong Order Kills Customer At Ruby Tuesday

"@Concerned_Citizen: I'm very surprised that you're assuming the wait staff and people working there are uncaring, callous people. The person who brought out the food was probably just a runner, not their waiter or the chef."

Meiran commented on Does Anybody Want To See Eddie Murphy's Little Man?

"@Git Em SteveDave has a new Lego set: Thank you, I was starting to think I had lost my mind when I saw this at what was probably it's final destination that day."

Meiran commented on Mega-Publisher Kodansha Changes the Definition of Manga

"Also, if you'd like an interesting take on the subject, pick up DramaCon, I believe it's in volume 2 where a character rants that they can call something fried cheese if they want, it doesn't matter what you call it, it's all just words. Purists who rant that only Japanese comics can be manga would be quite surprised, I think, to find out how many things lumped under "manga" and "anime" don't come from Japan at all, and are just as good and sometimes you can't actually tell the difference at all."

Meiran commented on Mega-Publisher Kodansha Changes the Definition of Manga

"Manga are just COMICS."

Meiran commented on Does Anybody Want To See Eddie Murphy's Little Man?

"I dunno, the other day I came out of the Tenleytown Metro stop in D.C."

Meiran commented on Absolutely Nobody Returns Mike and Juliet's Calls

"@notsofresh: I actually used to watch their show every morning because I was in a waiting room as a receptionist and had to have TV on and it was the best thing I could find in the time slot that was more or less harmless."

Meiran commented on Netflix Profiles To Stay!

"@PingPongDarts: The numbers I read were from 1% to 3%, coming from various Netflix CSRs and statements on blogs like Hacking Netflix. And when I calculated the number of people who had signed the online petition to keep profiles that was circulating compared to the number of subscribers, I came up with 0.002%. Until this story broke, nobody I had met in real life had even heard of profiles."

Meiran commented on Watchmen Shouldn't Be A Movie

"There's a trick that I learned in film school, when a professor asked us why a certain story was a movie: most things are only really successful, or are most successful, in one media."

Meiran commented on Netflix Profiles To Stay!

"So, since this feature was actually bogging down the site and getting rid of it was supposed to bring new features that might be more universally loved and used, exactly who "wins" here? Because I was one of the people (probably the bulk of Netflix customers, just not the vocal bulk) who would rather have the new features than the profiles. Also, those of you who think it was all just a publicity stunt, do you have any companies you actually like and trust, or do you assume everything all of them do is a terrible thing?"

Meiran commented on Five New Job Titles That Are Corporate Code For "Hot Girl"

"Since my job is "customer relations representative" I'm not sure if I should be flattered or say this must be the exception ; ) Though I admit that there are five of us and we're all young women, though the other four are much more put together and pretty than I am."

Meiran commented on Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Refuses Bathroom Access to 5-Year-Old, Who Then Has Diarrhea In Front Of Them

"@jsboehm79: This makes me think the fault lies with the mall more than anything else then."

Meiran commented on Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Refuses Bathroom Access to 5-Year-Old, Who Then Has Diarrhea In Front Of Them

"The problem for me here is two small but important parts: -They offered no alternatives (even when I wasn't allowed to let customers into our restroom at a store where I worked, I could easily let them know there was a restroom around the corner)."

Meiran commented on Netflix Eliminates User Profiles, Infuriates Customers

"@Mudpuddle: The system IS broken."

Meiran commented on Netflix Eliminates User Profiles, Infuriates Customers

"Why is everybody assuming that Netflix isn't going to ever give us a similar or better feature in the future?"