When did you first realize you were incurable?

[M'Sharak]

A friend of mine cut off the puffy ball thingy on his snow-hat, and without knowing why, I decided to keep it. Imagine my geek out when I realized it looks like my very own, first pet tribble!

I still have my first tribble. It is 34 years old. I bought it in a Star Trek store (yes a STAR TREK STORE) in Manhatten. It was a very small store and it had a barrel of tribbles.

Was it this Star Trek store? And this barrel?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

A friend of mine cut off the puffy ball thingy on his snow-hat, and without knowing why, I decided to keep it. Imagine my geek out when I realized it looks like my very own, first pet tribble!

I still have my first tribble. It is 34 years old. I bought it in a Star Trek store (yes a STAR TREK STORE) in Manhatten. It was a very small store and it had a barrel of tribbles.

Was it this Star Trek store? And this barrel?

I am literally.. gobsmacked.. just..

YES THAT IS IT!!!!

All that TOS only stuff on the walls, OMG.. and the fanzine rack.. and the tribble barrel!!! THANK YOU that is just amazing.

I am going to try and take a pic tomorrow of the two items I have from there still, the viewfinder and the tribble.. they have traveled across the globe with me as I now live in Aus. I used to walk to that store from my father's apartment which was between first and second ave on 42nd.

I think I bought one of those greeting cards once too.



I'm going to go watch some TOS now!!

 

[Count Zero]

(Note: The only item of Doctor Who merchandise that I own is a Dalek bottle-opener that says "EXTERMINATE!" when you use it. This gets a pass.)

That's awesome. A friend gave me a pizza cutter shaped like the Enterprise once. Which means other people know I'm incurable, too.

 

[M'Sharak]

I still have my first tribble. It is 34 years old. I bought it in a Star Trek store (yes a STAR TREK STORE) in Manhatten. It was a very small store and it had a barrel of tribbles.

Was it this Star Trek store? And this barrel?

I am literally.. gobsmacked.. just..

YES THAT IS IT!!!!

All that TOS only stuff on the walls, OMG.. and the fanzine rack.. and the tribble barrel!!! THANK YOU that is just amazing.

I remembered reading that entry when it was first posted, a year or so back, and thought the time and place sounded just about right to be the spot for your tribble acquisition. At least three of the store employees who appear in those photos later went on to work on Trek series and/or movies, including the writer of that blog.

 

[Stoek]

When I was in high school I had a cheap calculator that had come with a carton of cigarettes (every body in my family smokes but me) and I discovered that the back slid up and down very easily. With a friends help I made decals and turned it into a micro tri corder.

Later he and I worked up a schematic and technical specs for The Spine. The idea was why would people in the 24th century do their leisure reading on PADD's, when with micro holography and micro force field generators they could simulate real books. The spine when it's off is about the width of a ruler and about that long. It accepts voice commands, and has micro emitters. When activated it can simulate any book available in the Federation library.

In current times examples of my incurability include a tendency to issue voice commands to my non voice operated computer.

Also to refer to my journals as my personal log.

Also when confronted with some nifty new piece of tech like motion activated faucets I have been known to gleefully proclaim, "It's like livin' in Star Trek!"

 

[MetalPants]

Either when I did the Vulcan salute in grade school and no one knew what I was referencing, or when I realized that rain on the windshield of a moving car looks a bit like stars streaming past when a ship jumps to warp.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I think that in the snow all the time.