I guess it is hardwired into our brains to want to share what has happened to us or what we have done, or what we are planning to do with other...
I bought another old pickup truck less than a week ago. I just pulled somebody's little car out of a ditch with it a few minutes ago... which got...
When a ship accelerates, its inhabitants usually don't seem to experience any of the usual side effects of speed increase which we would expect....
Do you use the Vulcan salute in real life? How often, and where? Is it easy or difficult for you to get your fingers in position? Do you use...
I was just thinking about how it seems like I go through phases when I do lots of re-watching of episodes, maybe buy a little bit of Trek...
In "Ensigns of Command" Data fries (for lack of a more appropriate descriptive term) a rather crude aqueduct as a demonstration of force in his...
I'm talking about the episode where a bunch of old fashioned Irish folks are found, saved, and living on the Enterprise with their animals, and...
This hit me while I was commuting the other day, and it really makes sense. I am coming at this from a rather agnostic perspective, so please...
I was enjoying a nap in my office chair at about 3:00 PM one recent afternoon, when my second line rang. (I only use it for faxes, but since I...
"You don't trust a guy who wears $800 shoes..." ...The above is a quote from the trailer to a Christmas movie which I just watched. The line was...
The Economy is bad; circumstances seem occasionally disturbing to the inexperienced analyst. Sometimes those around us let us down; other times...
I've got three unfinished/incomplete systems, An Athlon X2 5400+ (1-2 years old), and my most cherished computer, an Athlon XP 2400+ (Est. 7 Years...
Scenario: You are walking through the forest during an extended backpacking tour of a remote region somewhere on earth. You are carrying food...
In Star Trek, we are shown a very simple code which is supposed to be followed in most situations: if it ain't your business, don't get involved....
Sometimes you overhear folks saying things that stand out as really wierd, or funny; and along those basic lines, here are two quotes that I...
I am pretty sure that I am not the only person who, while driving down the road, has occasionally fantasized being captain of a Federation...
It is no subtlety that the flag of the United Federation of Planets is essentially a modified version of the flag of the United Nations. As a...
The latest arrivals in my E-mail box included the following. Oh, the Irony: [IMG]
I was sitting there in the left turn lane minding my own business waiting for the light to change, not paying a whole heck of a lot of attention....
According to a handful of readily available and casually discovered internet sources, it would cost around $62 Trillion to create a gram of...
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