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Something you only know in a parallel dimension.

• Jim’s Big Ego
• Rockapella

We have a code for when we’re ready to leave a party. One of us will go to the other and do the finger walking up the other’s arm. This means “I want to go home.”

Is it worth the money? You’re going to spend something like 1/3 of your time on it. Make it a good one.

Messed up Hawkeye too.

I find Wikipedia invaluable. I’ve been donating $5/month for a number of years now.

Yes, SNW is a worthy spiritual successor to TOS.

I’ll give you two suggestions at opposite ends of the spectrum:

• Neon Genesis Evangelion is a wonderful show. It starts out as a giant robot series, but then moves in on examining how the characters are broken mentally (as in, they’re already broken, not let’s break stable people). Does have a tendency to depress people, but they generally feel it was a good experience.
• Just about any Studio Ghibli movie. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle. Some of these are more kids movies, but adults love them. Others have more adult themes. Stick to the ones directed by Hayao Miazaki. Warning: Grave of the Fireflys will make you cry and leave you devastated.

It’s unusual to have pet rats. Most vets do cats and dogs, and anything else is an afterthought. While there are many vets within 5 miles of me (suburbia), we have to travel over 30 miles to get to a good rat vet. Vets for farmers know more animals, but I wouldn’t expect them to know rats very well.

One time when one of ours got an X-ray, the doctor was comparing to a photo in a large book of X-rays for various animals. I expect that’s an expensive book to buy.

I’m so sorry to hear of your loss 😭. I’m glad that they had a good home and loving family.

This episode exists because of the stupid Starfleet rule of having traumatized veterans of the war have to interact positively with the supposedly bad-to-good turned war crime enemy. That’s a classic example of people acting stupid for “plot” (e.g. we couldn’t have this episode without the stupid bit).

Pet rats are awesome! They’re domesticated and used to interacting with people. They have distinct personalities and are very loving. Sadly, they only live about 2.5 to 3 years.

The opening of Cowboy Beebop: Tank.

Looks like it’s strictly one server. Too bad I can’t connect to multiple servers and switch between them.

When Galaxy Quest came out, Wil Wheaton called Patrick Stewart and told him to go to the theater and see “the best Star Trek movie ever made.”

PC: Descent. Full 6 degrees of freedom movement. Fantastic.

The opening song to Neon Genesis Evangelion. A Cruel Angel’s Thesis.

If you like art, mastodon.art.

For ST, the Voyager looked good, but I didn’t like the moving nacelles. The updated Enterprise from the first movie was my favorite iteration of the Big-E.

But, my favorite ship is the Omega class destroyer from Babylon 5. (sue me)

My first wife would get this thing about every 3 years or so where a contact would migrate around to the back of her eye. This would then be followed by about an hour of her trying to get it back front-and-center. Just the thought of it is enough to horrify me.