Rewatching ST:TNG Following the events of Part 1, Data plays along, simulating damage to the ship. Baran is persuaded by his Romulan flunky Tallera that he should retreat, and grudgingly thanks Riker for his role in keeping them all alive. Picard (undercover as “Galen”) taunts Riker as a “traitor and coward,” and gets a solid…
Similar:Brass desk lamp, with translucent green shade and glowing light bulb filament. #blender3dPersonalHow Not to Be a Jackass at Your Next Academic ConferenceOkay, I confess, I was once in the audie…AcademiaIf I don’t hang my own artwork on the walls of my #steampunk fantasy ship-of-the-line, who…AestheticsCelebration of Writing Fall 2025. Students present their research for…
A federal judge brokers an agreement in which Minnesota police had to be told specifically that they can’t arrest, threaten, or assault journalists, or confiscate or damage their equipment. Even when protestors are ordered to disperse, journalists are permitted to document what happens next, as per their First Amendment rights. The settlement includes a payment…
Rewatching ST:TNG I didn’t for a minute buy the “Picard is dead” premise, but it’s fun to watch the away team, dressed in civilian clothes, chatting with aliens in a cantina. They learn the “smooth-headed” human they are tracking was attacked and vaporized by artifact smugglers. Troi asks Riker to speak at the eulogy, but…
Rewatching ST:TNG The cold open features LaForge crawling through a Jeffries Tube without his visor, reaching through flames with his bare hands. He’s actually in a lab, hooked into a VR interface, controlling a drone that’s inside the Reman, a science vessel that got stuck in the dense atmosphere of a gas giant planet. Riker…
Similar:Fire Chief Grants Fireman 3-Day Extension On Difficult Fire Shortly before leaving work Monday, …AmusingFacebook touts fight on fake news, but struggles to explain why InfoWars isn't banned10 points to CNN’s Oliver Darcy for work…BusinessDetails on the disappearance of the Utah monolith Mr. Bernards, 34, of Edwards, Colo., w…ArtCNN reports Biden's dog was "involved in…
Similar:Kindle App Vs. iBooks. (Spoiler: They’re Virtually Identical Now!)I noticed with interest that Kindle now …AestheticsThe Lost Art of Paste-UpWhen I started using a word processor as…AestheticsElmo? Yes, I do mind. I learned far more from Bert.Like plenty of people my age, I grew up …AestheticsFun With Charts: Scale MattersAt first glance, this chart makes…
The word “dongle” has long existed as a representation of the sound of a bell, and it seems in the very early 80s it acquired the meaning of “a plug-in computer security device,” but in a 1970s magazine devoted to recreational model building, “dingle” and “dongle” were terms denoting components that needed to be connected.…
Rewatching ST:TNG Worf grumbles about his dress uniform, saying it looks like a dress. He’s preparing to receive two ambassadors on the Enterprise-D, along with a pilot to shuttle Picard to their homeworld. While Troi cheerfully introduces Loquel to the concept of “dessert,” Worf gripes that Byleth is “demanding, temperamental, and rude.” Data helpfully observes,…
Similar:Headphones, Croutons and RhetoricME (with crouton tongs in one hand and s…CultureThe Darkness and the Light #StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch (Season 5, Episode 11) A serial killer t…Rewatching ST:DS9 In a cave (again wi…DramaIn February 2000, I was blogging about "The Heist" (Sorrels); the "Instant Muse Poetry Gen… In February 2000, I was blogging abo…CybercultureTricking the…
Similar:Love outdoor theater. Love #Chekhov ! Love #cherryorchard Support the arts in your city. @…PersonalIf you like bloody, singing, punning demons you will love this show.If you like bloody, singing, punning dem…AmusingIn-home schooling popularity slipping across stateWe were on our way out the door to see A…CultureCarolyn plays Ti Moune in the Stage Right homeschool…
Rewatching ST:TNG Data plays poker with holodeck simulations of a crabby Isaac Newton, a genial Albert Einstein, and a grinning Stephen Hawking (playing himself). The Enterprise-D follows a distress call to an outpost, where they find a Borg task force. But everything seems off… not only did these Borg seem to be hiding, the drones…
Similar:The daughter opens another show. This weekend only.The daughter opens another show. This we…PersonalWaiting for a talk on preserving artifacts from NASA’s Apollo program So much to see at the Heinz History Ce…CultureEveryone wants to save the world, but no one wants to help Mom do the dishes.CultureSunny but cool. Great day for a long…
I think this #denoising filter makes my #CGI scene look a bit like a hand-illustrated children’s book. #Blender3D #cyclesrender The fruit bowl and some of the base textures (like the cloth for the potholders, or the wallpaper) are from free kits. Similar:The chief engineer does not know where the floating lamps are coming from,…
Similar:Birthright, Part 1 (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 16) Worf learns his father m…Rewatching ST:TNG The Enterprise-D vi…EthicsHow to Think Like ShakespeareSaving this for the next time I teach Sh…AcademiaRereading “Writing to Learn”Rereading “Writing to Learn,” William Zi…AcademiaLGN Launches Quandary to Develop Ethical Thinking through PlayThe Learning Games Network, a non-profit…CultureDiamonds Are Bullsh*tI did…
Pandemic living can make it much more difficult to form a memory at all, let alone call it back when we need it, said Yassa, director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine. “Sometimes we’re a little bit harder on ourselves. We think, ‘Oh, how…
The filter won’t replace real hand-drawn art, but the imperfections give some life to a CGI scene. Similar:Leveling up my skills in #blender3D. Using invisible shapes to cut holes …DesignParchmap – Interactive Fiction with automapping, autocomplete, navigation, note taking, an…Parchmap is a wonderful expansion to the…AwesomeSorry, not sorry. I don't want such friends. Back in…
In February, 2002, I was blogging about Robert E. McElwaine was a conspiracy theorist who had a habit of spamming multiple newsgroups with his political, religious, and social ideas. He used an account at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, and was very active until around the time I started teaching at that school. Animator…
Rewatching ST:TNG Picard, Data, Troi and LaForge are lounging in the back section of a runabout (seen only in this episode), reflecting on a conference they just attended, when they start running into pockets of space where time moves at different rates. They find the Enterprise-D and a Romulan Warbird frozen in time, apparently in…
A 20-something former CEO takes a fast food job The death of Astrid Lindgren (creator of Pippi Longstocking) at 94 Isadore, patron saint of web surfing (who remembers when “surfing the web” was the dominant metaphor?) Teenager created a glove to translate ASL finger positions to speech On the implausibility of the Death Star’s trash…