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Ah, good. Itch sufficiently scratched. I do recall Worf complaining to Troi about Alexander not seeing to his dirty clothes, now that you mention it. And liked the bit where, no matter how simple and easy a housekeeping task might be, there will always be those (especially kids) who just can't ever ...

Saw Dogma for the first time since it was new-ish, so long ago there were entire subplots and major characters I'd forgotten. (The only reason I have a copy of the movie is, about a week ago I came across this article explaining why the movie is not only out of print but also unavailable on streamin...

I really don't think that personal vehicles will go away. I do see the likelihood that they are all electrified, although I don't know how quickly that will happen. I don't expect that will happen until either battery technology (or whatever tech is necessary) improves to the point where fully char...

I don't know if this is indicative of the relative popularity of various Trek franchises, or just a meaningless statistic about a single trip to a particular bookstore, but: Jeff and I went to Chattanooga today to visit our all-time favorite secondhand bookstore (happy Covid Freedom Day to me!) -- t...

The GOP is officially the Trump party now. Which does not bode well for the country, especially considering how the GOP no longer supports the peaceful transition of democratic power, either.

So ... I let the Spanish thing lapse after awhile (got distracted by the discovery of the all-Star Trek TNG stream), but went back to it a week or so ago -- specifically, keeping the preschool shows on in the background. Same shows and same episodes as last summer, and while it does seem I've retain...

Here's an older post which, I'm happy to say, has not aged well at all: Between the super-slow vaccination rollout rates, and my being among the last in line to get it ... chances are I WON'T get the shot by the end of this summer. It's less than a week now before I'll be at two weeks past my second...

I kinda like wearing masks, especially during pollen season and swarming-clouds-of-gnats season. Of course, I say this as a married woman who no longer goes out in any flirtation or looking-for-flirtation contexts. If I were looking to possibly-maybe meet someone, I would definitely want my face and...

It's abundantly clear that yelling (or clutching your pearls or clicking your tongue) at people showing vaccine hesitancy about how stupid or ignorant they are does not do anything except harden their opinion against getting the vaccines. It's really something that people should be backing off of i...

Having now raised the issue of impractical Star Trek clothing, I cannot un-see how very impractical other in-universe garments are. Last night I caught parts of two episodes -- the one with Data's daughter Lal, and the one where Q loses his powers and turns to the Enterprise for protection -- again,...

I ordered the carafe. But of course it's not here yet, so I woke up again wanting coffee and nit having any. 🤬 Back to 7/11 I go! Edit: cold brew sounds like a good option, except that it involves planning ahead. Another thought -- not for everyday coffee use, but for emergencies/hurricane kits -- ...

Some Croatian kid streaming (or Chinese kid or Ethiopian or Martian colonist...) could kick off some fad that spreads and sticks and evolves for centuries. Sure, but what I'm kinda curious about (not that there's much chance of being able to answer now) is, how long will it take before ordinary eve...

Taking the ball even further: now I'm wondering about clothing in general -- specifically, how clothes today look or are different from clothes of yore, and also -- how different will clothing look in the future? Or have we reached a sort of "style plateau" wherein a lot of the clothes you have righ...

I mention this because I was recently watching one of those TNG episodes where Picard was relaxing in casual clothes -- not his red-and-black captain's uniform but that weird "two loose pieces criss-cross in front" shirt Do you remember the episode? Not that specific one, but Picard wore a dark gre...

I switched to cold-brew pitchers a couple months before covid, and it is GREAT. Not only does the coffee taste better IMO, but when you're first waking up, merely pouring a cup from a pitcher is ever-so-much easier than fiddling with a hot-coffee maker.

That's what worries me -- even if "Trump" is finished, "Trumpism" might not be.

Crossover thought: on another thread discussing an annoying worrywart article about thrift stores and Kids These Days and capitalism and whatever the fuck else, I mentioned how my own extensive thrift-shopping experience compares to what the article claims, specifically how the clothing pieces I see...

After the shot, where do you go for the 15-minute observation period -- do they send you to park in a given area?

(Headsmack) I've been seeing Swarovski ads on every website I visit (my own fault; a few nights ago, I checked out of idle curiosity to see if they'd gone back to selling 'personal hobby' figurines, which they have not), and just now saw, on Facebook, an ad for Swarovski-encrusted face masks (for $5...

What would really help is if one of the Derek Chauvin clones still on the job were to beat the crap out of a white grandmother on video. I thought you were in fact referring to the thing posted above with litote irony with this comment. I wasn't aware of it when I first posted. I am surprised at ho...

I'm rather hungry right now but I'm not going to eat anything, because Jeff is supposed to be bringing barbecue home in celebration, though I don't know what time he'll get here. He's already had his first professional haircut in 14 months.

Today is Freedom Day for Jeff: two week after his second shot. Today he's planning to get a professional haircut, visit a certain comic-book store, pick up some barbecue and a few other things. Tomorrow, he and a local vaccinated-but-carless friend are going to visit some of the local secondhand boo...

This is one Jeff told me when we were dating:

Did you hear about the gay Jew who wanted to become a Catholic?
[holds arms in crucifixion pose]
He heard they had a guy hung like this.

There's an interesting PDF article "Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics?" that is a PITA to link on mobile, but searching the exact title should work. Primitive bicycles, scooters, etc. are interesting in their absence from the ancient world. I wonder if it has something to do with...

I remember reading about that steam engine. This is the type of thing I find fascinating. How many other inventions were made before their time, lost, and reinvented? The general conclusion of my own research on these topics is that all of these things keep getting pushed farther back in history as...