You know what we need to do? Throw open the borders. Import some of this vibrant cultural diversity. What could go wrong?
Jan 062023
Jan 052023
Two separate projects to create virtual Discoveries from “2001.” Neither one is complete, both are interesting.
Jan 042023
The last ten years or so have seen massive denigration of long-established fandoms. Star Trek, Star Wars, LotR, etc. These fandoms have deep and beloved lore, and many of the modern producers simply don’t care. Why respect the canon, when there is a message to deliver?
Fortunately, this is not always the case. Sam Witwer is an actor probably best known for voice acting. He’s voiced Darth Maul in the “Clone Wars” and “Rebels” series, and “Starkiller” in the “Force Unleashed” video game, where he also did motion capture. It’s that latter one that’s of interest here. Turns out that he was knowledgeable in Star Wars lore, and knew how to apply that knowledge… and the director of the game knew to respect that. (This was a 2008 release, before the modern age of garbage; but witness Henry Cavill’s love of Warcraft 40K secured him a post-DCU future.) Behold:
Dec 312022
Maybe I’m being optimistic with the title to this post; Biden, Harris, Tate and all the rest might all rise to the challenge. But it’s a high bar:
The lawsuit from this should prove to be lucrative.
Dec 272022
Three seconds of every episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation:
Dec 242022
The woman in this video does everything she can to make sure she gets arrested. The level of entitlement she displays is monumental, which is amusing considering the level of ignorance she displays. I remain baffled at what aggressive idiots like this think they are going to achieve. Weird that the actual criminal in the tale is far more chill and reasonable.
Dec 212022
A Grand Total Of 20 People Showed Up To A Brittney Griner ‘Homecoming’ Celebration In Waco, ESPN Doesn’t Seem Happy About It
The video below shows part of the “celebration.” It’s sad (and yet hilarious) in the way that Kirk Cameron’s Subway birthday party was sad (and yet hilarious).
Dec 212022
The great majority of the time when someone says “there aught to be a law,” there really aughtn’t. But a law I’d get behind: any new bill in Congress must be read, in it entirety, on the floor of the House and Senate by those who wrote and co-sponsored it before it is allowed to come up to vote. Only those who sat there and listened to at least 75% of the reading would be allowed to vote on the bill; those who weren’t there are automatically registered as “no” votes. This would have the effect of making bills *vastly* smaller than the bloated monstrosities they’ve become.
Take, for example, the latest budget. The R. Lee Ermey bit at the end wholly encapsulates things.
Dec 172022
The more challenging you try to appear, the more people will challenge you. Armored trains these days seem like the sort of thing that everyone with a surface-to-surface missile, an air-to-surface missile, a drone, a handful of plastic explosive or a cup full of thermite will try their luck at.
Dec 172022
There was a time when vigilantes were more legend than fact, because the police and justice system did the job that needed doing. I guess those times are over. We entered a period of lawlessness… and I suspect that we’ll be seeing more stories like this, where vigilantes start doing the job that cops and security guards aren’t allowed to anymore.
Of course, some places want to pretend that crime *isn’t* a problem. That if you cover it up, people will forget about it. Let’s see how well *that* works…