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📚 twenty-five of 2020: Star Trek S.C.E.: Foundations by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dillmore ⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Trek “expanded universe” novel; three short stories and a framing story, all of Scotty’s interactions with the early S.C.E. and tying into TOS episodes.

Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.23: Bombtime!

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I’ve apparently fallen into the habit of doing some sort of themed set every third week. This week started when I realized how many songs I had with “bomb” in the title, and decided to see what I could do with that….

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On This Day: May 23

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 27 posts previously published on May 23rd

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 21 I've read enough William S. Burroughs to recognize those symptoms! ➡
  • 2020
    • 📚 twenty-five of 2020: Star Trek S.C.E.: Foundations by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dillmore ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Trek “expanded universe” novel; three short stories and a framing story, all of Scotty’s interactions with the early S.C.E. and tying into TOS episodes. ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.23: Bombtime! I've apparently fallen into the habit of doing some sort of themed set every third week. This week started when I realized how many songs I had with 'bomb' in the title. ➡
    • On This Day: May 23 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 23 ➡
  • 2016
    • Not a bad day at all for a Monday. Here’s hoping that’s the start of a trend. (144/366) ➡
  • 2015
  • 2014
    • Funny little dollar store eyeball ring. Too small for my fingers, but amusing. Looks like a friendly little alien to me. :) ➡
    • Hard at work at Law and Justice! Except that I actually sit at a computer all day, and never need to touch the law books. But still. It works for today’s picture. :) ➡
    • Fun Feet Friday: Darth Vader socks! ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for May 21st through May 23rd Sometime between May 21st and May 23rd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • After Keeping Us Waiting for a Century, Mark Twain Will Finally Reveal All • Cripple Crab Crutch • The Swinger • 10 Days in a Carry-on • The Pirate Bay | Cracked.com ➡
  • 2006
    • The Perils of Being Blogged Must make this quick.... Out in the [doctor's] waiting room- I am typing away on blog and then zoom to your site to see what's new, when guy next to me goes- 'That's the numbnut from Microsoft- right??' ➡
    • Up, Up and Away… A 'time panorama]' -- seven shots combined into a single panoramic image capturing this kitesurfer's jump. ➡
  • 2005
    • Episode III: Pros and Cons Mike messaged me on iChat this evening after getting back from watching Star Wars Episode III. Our conversation ended up touching on most, if not all, of the points I've had wandering around in my head and was planning on using for a more in-depth review than the one I gave previously. So, with his permission, I'm reposting our conversation here. ➡
    • Love Battle Ideologies and slogans are going to be battling it out in the Seattle area next month. In the (far) right corner: Love Won Out, a 'national campaign to treat homosexuality as preventable.' In the left corner: Love Welcomes All, a counter-conference organized by PFLAG. ➡
    • Local Innuendo Headline from a story in today's Seattle PI: University of Washington among top-endowed colleges ➡
    • 2005 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Films Dori's got a very handy list of this year's Sci-Fi and Fantasy films that are likely to be potential Hugo Award nominees. Some I've seen, most I've heard of, but there were a few listed that I didn't know about -- including a new Terry Gilliam film! ➡
    • Apple and Intel There's a lot of rumbling in the Mac world today thanks to a Wall Street Journal article reporting rumors of Apple talking to Intel about using their chips. ➡
    • Recap Still alive, still here, just haven't been very talkative. Quick weekend recap, though... ➡
  • 2004
    • I’m so glad I don’t drive Gas really does cost an arm and a leg these days. ➡
    • Draft targeted to resume in spring 2005 There have been rumors about this for a while now, but it's been looking more and more likely all the time, and now the first major steps have been set in motion. ➡
    • Shrek 2 We also saw Shrek 2, which was a far more enjoyable experience than Troy. ➡
    • Troy Prairie and I saw Troy this weekend. That wasn't supposed to be a comedy, was it? ➡
  • 2003
    • Can we clone Sen. Byrd? Another excellent speech from Sen. Byrd. Can we please get more politicians like this man in office? ➡
    • US takes control of space The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of all U.S. spy satellites, NRO is talking openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any time — not just adversaries, but even longtime allies, according to NRO director Peter Teets. ➡
    • SARS from space? Here's an interesting theory: could SARS have come to us from outer space? ➡
    • Starring Howard Dean 'Cool idea!' 'Ick — Windows only (sigh).' 'Oh, wait — Quicktime videos too!' ➡
  • 1996
    • [From Usenet: 5.23.96 2300] Was wondering if anyone had attempted an install of NetBSD on a mac...? --and-- Anyone attempted a firewall system like this...? ➡

On This Day: May 22

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 22 posts previously published on May 22nd

  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 20 How you'd usually find me on weeknight evenings if you broke into my house, which would be creepy and unappreciated. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • The Body’s Most Embarrassing Evolutionary Marvel: “To peer into the soul of a sea cucumber, don’t look to its face; it doesn’t have one. Gently turn that blobby body around, and gaze deep into its marvelous, multifunctional anus.” ➡
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Happy #WorldGothDay! The top two shots are me at about 22 (1995) at my first DJing gig at City Lights in Anchorage, AK; bottom left is at about 25 (1997) at Gigs Music Theater in Anchorage; bottom right is at 45 (2018) in “undercover goth” work mode. Remember: goth has no age limit, there’s no ... Read more ➡
  • 2017
    • Chucks of the day (54/54): new style (padded) classic red low-tops. #chucks #converse ➡
  • 2016
    • Book twenty-two of 2016: Dead to Me, by Mary McCoy. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (143/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • This must be the most hilariously college student treat I’ve seen in the cafeteria here. Like Rice Krispie treats, only with Captain Crunch (I think). Looks…horrible. ➡
  • 2014
    • I’m sadly lacking in photos (that I haven’t already posted) worthy of #worldgothday, so in lieu of a photo, here’s a #throwbackthursday sketch given to me in 1998 by Jon Hannah, back when I was doing the alt/goth/industrial DJ thing at Gig’s (and/or the Lost Abbey). On the original, text underneath reads, “A DJ’s life ... Read more ➡
  • 2008
    • Heterosexual Questionnaire There are multiple versions of this floating around on the 'net, and I've run across the concept before, but I saw this particular version for the first time this week in my Women's Studies class, where it got a lot of laughs and some good discussions going. ➡
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2003
    • With stripes! We just saw the zebras mating, thank you, very exciting. It was like the Heimlich — with stripes! ➡
    • Okay, enough with the buttons! Need a button, Kirsten? ;) ➡
    • Pathologicopsychological Too many projects, not enough time… ➡
    • Alaska questions Patriot Act 'When we stand on this floor and we salute that flag, the final words that we use are 'One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,'' said Sen. Robin Taylor, R-Wrangell. 'I take it deadly serious when we start removing groups of people from 'justice for all.'' ➡
    • More buttonmania Mena, if you weren't married to Ben already, I'd propose after seeing this! ;) Just beautiful. ➡
    • Winerism of the day Movable Type's new TypePad service is unveiled. It appears to be what UserLand had working (for free) in 1999. ➡
  • 2002
    • The Last Temptation of Christ If I'm understanding this correctly, the heresy lies not just in the belief that Jesus could be tempted, but that there was a risk that he could give into that temptation. My question, then, is just this -- isn't that the way it would need to be? If there were no possibility of Jesus giving into the temptation and renouncing his spot on the cross, then what would be the point? ➡
    • Hooray for slow work days Things here are slow enough that I'm spending a little time bouncing around, and found something quite interesting -- the top 100 books of all time, as chosen by 100 writers from 54 countries. ➡
  • 2001

On This Day: May 21

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 15 posts previously published on May 21st

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • Here’s a nice collection of photos from the Kilauea eruption going on right now. Gorgeous and awesome — in its formal “extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear” meaning. ➡
    • The Coup Has Already Happened Sad to say, this sounds about right to me: The coup has already happened. ➡
    • I know a lot of people are allergic, and I’m sorry about that, but I have to admit to really getting a kick out of the cottonwood “snowstorm” going on right now. That stuff is everywhere! ➡
  • 2017
    • Family game night? #lego #starwars #milleniumfalcon #hansolo #chewbacca #bb8 #rey #finn ➡
  • 2016
    • Getting my rocks off in our front driveway this morning. ;) We moved about three tons of rock to cover what used to be a scraggly dead patch of our backyard, and managed to get it done before lunch! And now, the collapsing. (142/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • There are probably people out there to whom this looks more familiar than my actual face. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Buttonmania! I've reworked my sidebar a bit, using buttons I found on Steal These Buttons, via this MeFi post. Hopefully it's not too much — I haven't seen it yet, so I'll find out after this post goes up. ➡
    • Navigation – left or right? I had the standard left-justified navigation for a while, and at one point had a three column layout with sidebars on both sides of the page, but in one of my redesigns I decided to go with the current right-justified navigation, and plan on sticking with it.I had the standard left-justified navigation for a while, and at one point had a three column layout with sidebars on both sides of the page, but in one of my redesigns I decided to go with the current right-justified navigation, and plan on sticking with it. ➡
  • 2002
    • Birthday presents! I've got some very silly parents. I'm sure that this is just an entirely mindblowing revelation, for anyone who knows me well, or has met them. I got my first box of birthday presents from them a couple days ago. Two items, both of which made me laugh a lot. ➡
    • Why I don’t give my phone number to people who fry anymore. The only reason Mikhail Gorbachov would be the 7-11 buying a pack of smokes at 3:45 in the morning is beause you dropped five hits of acid at midnight and have in fact seen Willy tryin' to hold up the store again. ➡
  • 2001
    • Back to the usual Kirsten and Jamie picked me up at the Fairbanks airport, and we headed back to Kirsten's dorm at UAF, where the three of us stayed up talking and bs'ing until way too early in the morning. But then -- that's the point of vacations, right? ➡
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📚 twenty-four of 2020: E.T. the Extraterrestrial by William Kotzwinkle ⭐️⭐️⭐️

An odd adaptation, likely done from an earlier draft of the script. I never realized E.T. was quite so romantically enamored with Elliott’s mom! That got kinda weird a few times.

On This Day: May 20

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 25 posts previously published on May 20th

  • 2023
  • 2021
  • 2020
    • This is so frustrating: The Abyss is one of my personal favorite films, but all indications are that there’s a good chance that the old, non-anamorphic standard definition DVD may be the only physical release we’ll ever see, and even a digital HD release is an open question. ➡
    • 📚 twenty-four of 2020: E.T. the Extraterrestrial by William Kotzwinkle ⭐️⭐️⭐️ An odd adaptation, likely done from an earlier draft of the script. I never realized E.T. was quite so romantically enamored with Elliott’s mom! That got kinda weird a few times. ➡
    • On This Day: May 20 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 20 ➡
  • 2017
    • Got a good haul of #lego #minifigures today – 12 bags, and no duplicates! Got the ones I wanted the most (highwayman and both retro sci-fi guys), and the ones Prairie wanted (the baker and butterfly girl), plus more. ➡
    • Came down to Yakima for a nice long walk and picnic by the river today. ➡
  • 2016
    • Waiting to see if the new #StarTrekBeyond trailer goes online after it debuts at the #StarTrekFan event in LA, while friends are at the @empmuseum #StarTrekEMP party in Seattle. And I’m here in Ellensburg. (141/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • We are once again allowed to leave the country! First time since 1996 for me. Now…where to go? (Probably Canada in the near-ish foreseeable future.) ➡
  • 2014
    • Prairie’s left early this morning for Seattle for a conference until tomorrow evening, so I have a couple days of riding my bike to and from work. Gorgeous weather for a morning ride! ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for May 18th through May 20th Sometime between May 18th and May 20th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • New Social Networking Site Changing the Way Oh, Christ, Forget It • The Ragbag - F(x) = ½X + 7 • Who You Gonna Call? • Article Asking for More Comprehensive Sex Education Cut From Catholic-School Newspaper • The Big Caption ➡
  • 2008
    • Silliness: Medical Notes An e-mail from Mom. Normally I don't pass these kinds of things on (via e-mail or the web), especially when they're already posted on Snopes (this one is listed as 'Undetermined'), but this one had both Prairie and I in stitches (no pun intended) as we read through it. Lots of good arguments for the importance of clarity in writing in here! ➡
    • Eight Point Three I have no idea how I ended up on their radar, but I've just been rated an 8.3 on Blogged.com, some form of directory and rating site for weblogs. ➡
  • 2006
    • Is Pixar a ‘boys only’ club? Honestly, I'd never even thought about this until Prairie brought it up after we watched one of the trailers for Cars, when its predominantly male-centric theme got her started thinking about the rest of Pixar's oevure. Just where are the girls in Pixar films? ➡
  • 2005
    • Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith In brief and spoiler-free: I know Episode I stank, and Episode II was better, but still nowhere near what we'd all been hoping for. Episode III, while not perfect, is _far_ better than either of the prior two prequels, and -- believe it or not -- stands as a worthy addition to the series. ➡
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • XXX A willing suspension of disbelief is one thing, but when the fight scenes in both Matrix films pay more attention to the laws of physics than the stunts in XXX, it's really not a good sign. ➡
    • Then I have to go When I'm with a boy I like, it's hard for me to say anything cool, or witty — or at all. I can usually make a few vowel sounds, and then I have to go away. ➡
    • Reclaiming the Public Domain The idea is a simple one: Fifty years after a work has been published, the copyright owner must pay a $1 maintanence fee. If the copyright owner pays the fee, then the copyright continues. If the owner fails to pay the fee, the work passes into the public domain. Based on historical precedent, we expect 98% of copyrighted works would pass into the public domain after just 50 years. They could keep Mickey for as long as Congress lets them. But we would get a public domain. ➡
  • 2002
    • Frikkin’ Major Tom!!! I got to go to another concert last night -- Peter Murphy! It was an absolutely incredible show. He focused mostly on songs from his most recent album, Dust, but also tossed in a few of his more popular songs from other older albums, including both 'Crystal Wrists' and 'Roll Call'. ➡

In Search of Tomorrow Watchlist

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This is a list of films planned (as of May 2020) to be referenced in the upcoming documentary In Search of Tomorrow. I got curious as to how many I’d seen.

Key:

☑️ = I’ve seen it at some point, though it’s been a while and impressions may be colored by time.
✅ = I’ve seen it recently or often enough to have a reasonably current impression of it.
📀 = I have a copy in my personal collection.

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On This Day: May 19

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 29 posts previously published on May 19th

  • 2024
    • The Latter Fire by James Swallow 📚: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: A somewhat predictable primary antagonist, but balanced with a very interesting major threat to all parties. ➡
  • 2023
    • Year 50 Day 17 Getting older? Inevitable. Wiser? I hope so. More mature? Not if I can help it. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2016
    • I’m too sexy for my yogurt. ;) (140/366) ➡
  • 2015
    • More goodies! The movies are birthday presents from Prairie’s mom (we’ll have to let her know what she got me), the book I’ve had on preorder for months. Our plan is to find time to watch the Jurassic Park trilogy before seeing Jurassic World. No real reason for the Pirates series other than that we ... Read more ➡
    • Just got a nice present from one of the graduating LAJ students. She did the bird etching herself. :) ➡
  • 2014
    • Hanging out in Prairie’s office as she finishes up the day. Not grumpy, just being amused at the white patches on my chin. :) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Still Awkward After All These Years Yesterday I was interviewed by a reporter for ABC News who was working on an article about AFP and the reactions from people who've stumbled across their photos on the site, and the article went live this morning! It features both of the shots of our family that are on AFP, and my part of the article comprises a fair chunk of the last third or so. ➡
    • Links for May 16th through May 19th Sometime between May 16th and May 19th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Geek Girls Network Interview: Shannon Flowers From Seattle Geekly • Zoo's Penguins Finally on View • Fox Abandons Experiment to Air Fewer Ads • It's Terminal: A Dozen Scenes of Early Office Computing • Reinventing Star Trek's VFX ➡
  • 2007
    • Wamu Sees All! Last September, I put these eyes on a small sign at the driveway in to the Northgate Washington Mutual bank. Last night, as I was walking home from work, I noticed that eight months later, they're still there. This makes me rather ridiculously pleased with the universe. ➡
  • 2006
    • Let’s Go Fly A Kite I took advantage of yesterday's gorgeous weather to stop by Carkeek Park. This guy was practicing with a mid-size kite -- larger than normal, but not large enough to go kite surfing with. Lots of fun to watch! ➡
  • 2005
    • Feed types Looking at the Google AdSense for Feeds announcement, Scoble takes a moment to rank the various basic types of feeds that can be produced now. Dead-on, I'd say. ➡
    • Hi there! It's raining pretty decently right now, so I ducked into the Convention Center on my way home for lunch. Walking past the lower level shops on my way to the elevator, I spotted a girl in the beauty salon sitting with a pomeranian propped up in her lap. ➡
    • May Meetup May Meetup report, I've got a doppelganger running around town, and Star Wars fans are fun to photograph. All in all, not a bad evening! ➡
  • 2004
    • If only I had a bit more under my belt As much as I enjoy being something of a 'jack-of-all-trades' in my computer experience -- lots of experience across a wide range of fields -- the downside is a lack of comprehensive knowledge in nearly any field. ➡
    • Bad code! No biscuit! Sorry, guys, but if I'm seeing three cringeworthy examples of bad HTML code within the first couple seconds of visiting your page, you could have a program that makes BBEdit look like Microsoft FrontPage and I wouldn't be able to take it seriously. ➡
    • Good point I'd rather be shot than vote for bush at gunpoint. After all, i can recover from a gunshot wound in, say, a couple months. Voting for bush, well, that takes four years. ➡
    • Silly quiz time! Old school punk! You just say what you have to say regardless of what everyone else thinks! You're one of my most favourite types of music…. You're raw and uncut! You're surrounded by hype…just don't let it make you go insane… ➡
    • iRaq There's an interesting bit of anti-war postering going on in New York right now… ➡
    • Mac OS X vulnerability News broke across the 'net over the past day or so that there is a verifiable, serious security threat under Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) involving Safari and the Help viewer application. ➡
  • 2003
    • Bush's hydrogen plan According to this Kalilly post, Bush has figured out how to seem environmentally conscious while still screwing over the planet. ➡
    • Patron Saint of… There's a good chance that dad knows that Francis Xavier is the patron saint of the archdiocese Indianapolis, Indiana. He might even know that Therese of Lisieux is the patron saint of the diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska. ➡
    • Geeze, that's a big-ass cube. One trillion pennies would form a cube 273 feet to a side. That's roughly half the height of the Washington Monument. The cube would weigh approximately 3,125,000 pounds. Now, just to boggle your mind a bit further: multiply that cube by 100 times, and you'd have the number of pennies that the Department of Defense can't account for. ➡
    • Water shutoff Oh, this is good -- our building has a 30-day shutoff notice from the water utility posted on the front door. ➡
    • Getting personal An interesting article in the NYT today about the pros and cons of getting personal with weblogs, something I occasionally struggle with. ➡
    • Ari Fleischer resigns I informed President Bush last week that after 21 years of doing nothing but government and politics...that I have decided that my time has come to leave the White House. And I will leave later this summer, most likely in July. ➡