January 2012
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Root Beer
Quark: “…so now [my cousin] Gaila owns his own moon and I’m staring into the abyss; and the worst part of it is my only hope for salvation is the Federation.” Garak: “I know precisely how you feel.” Quark: “I want you to try something for me; take a sip of this.” Garak: “What is it?” Quark: “A Human drink, it’s called root...
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December 2011
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“My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state...”
– Camille Paglia (1947–) Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (1992) Introduction, Page vii
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“…and it meets his definition of a classic–something that everybody wants...”
– Mark Twain Mark Twain’s Speeches, Page 194
Climbing the Mountain of Conflict
Simon Foster: “Go on, it’ll be easy peasy lemon squeezy.” Toby Wright: “No, it won’t. It’ll be difficult, difficult, lemon difficult.”
Peter Capaldi returns with a brilliant performance as Thick of It’s Malcolm Tucker in In the Loop (2009). Read about it. Stream it. Buy it. Watch it.
Advertisement poster done in the style of the Barack Obama...
“mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo.
my conscience means more to...”
– Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to [Titus Pomponius] Atticus [109 – 32 BCE]), XII.28.2 (45 BCE) Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 – 43 BCE)
Down to the road block, we've just begun
1. Down to the road block, we’ve just begun 2. The guards are through 3. The Major’s men are on a spree 4. Major and Wladislaw go through the door 5. Pinkley stays out in the drive 6. The Major gives the rope a fix 7. Wladislaw throws the hook to heaven 8. Jiminez has got a date 9. The other guys go up the line 10. Sawyer and Gilpin are in the pen 11. Posey guards points five and...
November 2011
15 posts
Ranks and Uniforms of Star Trek Characters
Oh yeah, I’m going there (as though the title of my blog wasn’t enough of a clue already), so if you’re already rolling your eyes just go on to http://espn.go.com/ or http://perezhilton.com/ now and tell yourself that’s honestly more fascinating =p .
I’ve always loved the world of Star Trek and a large part of that is the ships, uniforms, ranks and insignia, props, etc. One thing I’d...
Perfumes
Fragrances are sold by a company but developed by a perfumer, famous fragrances having a year they came out e.g. Drakkar Noir was made for Guy Laroche by Pierre Wargnye in 1982, Cinnabar was made for Estée Lauder by Bernard Chant in 1978, N°5 for Chanel in 1921 and L’Heure Bleue (the favorite of Contessa Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo, wife-to-be of James Bond in On Her...
What's the farthest I've been from home?
This was a question in one of those chain letters your friends send you which I don’t normally reply to but which actually got me thinking. All distances and calculations are approximate, assuming measurements at the equator, that the circumference of the Earth is uniform, and using statute miles rather than nautical miles for the sake of simplicity.
The farthest one can get from home...
Podcasts
Anyone who knows me is familiar with the sight of my Bose IE2 earphones going to my iPod classic (sixth gen) constantly playing in at least one ear. Besides the 64 GB of music I’m generally listening to podcasts and these are my shows of choice:
Nobody Likes Onions Chris Porter’s General Store Gentlemen Scumbags The Best Medicine WTF with Marc Maron Bill Burr - Monday Morning...
Red logos
Is there some kind of connection between red logos and video/film/television?
It's the end of law and order as we know it
Law & Order: Trial by Jury cancelled 1/21/2006. Law & Order cancelled 5/24/2010. Law & Order: Criminal Intent cancelled 6/26/2011. Law & Order: Los Angeles cancelled 5/13/2011. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is in its 13th season but Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler isn’t in it and Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson will be leaving after thirteen episodes. Law &...
Confessions of a Late Adopter of Technology
My history of late adoption of technology I realized earlier this year: 08/95 Windows 95 released 07/99 I leave Mac OS 8.6 for Windows 98 Second Edition 10/01 First iPod released 12/04 I get a 40 GB iPod Classic (fourth generation) 01/00 Mobile phone subscribers in US passes 50% 12/05 I get a a mobile phone 01/07 Redbox passes Blockbuster for number of US locations 11/09 I get a Redbox...
“Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.”
– That is, when contemplating the personal use of deadly force with respect to self-defense from perceived imminent, immediate, and grievous bodily harm to oneself or to others, and questioning whether justifiable homicide would be ruled; it is important to consider that it is preferable to be alive...
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“Il vaut mieux hasarder de sauver un coupable que de condamner un innocent.” “It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.” -Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) (1694 – 1778) Zadig ou la Destinée (1747) “It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.” -Sir William Blackstone (1723 – 1780) Book IV: Of...
“If I were to tell you the next thing I say will be true, but that the last thing...”
– The Doctor (Third Doctor [1970 – 1974], Jon Pertwee [1919 – 1996]) The Green Death (May 19 1973 – June 23 1973) Doctor Who (Season 10, Episode 69)
“One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back...”
– A silly poem I remember from my childhood.
“One hen
Two ducks
Three squawking geese
Four Limerick oysters
Five corpulent...”
– I remember as a child being challenged with this by my parent’s friends. It’s one of the more well known announcer’s tests from the early 1940s.
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October 2011
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