TREK

To Boldly go where no one has gone before.


I don’t care who you are, EVERYONE has heard of that little show called “Star Trek”.

I love that show. Love it even more the Star Wars.
I love the characters, the stories, the messages.

I never did get interested in Deep Space Nine or the short lived “Enterprise”
DS9 was kinda boring but I think I have seen about 25% of the series and I’d like to be able to get into it.
As for Enterprise, I don’t know. I guess I keep expecting Al to show up to tell Sam why he’s leapt into this starship captain’s body.
In ranking, I believe it would fall thus
Next Generation
Voyager
Original series
Enterprise
DS9

Now here is my audience participation part.
Whether you like Star Trek or don’t like it, you have to admit that a lot of people have passed through the various series to make quite a unusual collective of peoples.
Tell me in the comments below who would be your top 5 choice to hang with for a night.
Ok maybe too hard Make it your top 3 people.
Alive or Dead
that you wouldn’t mind having dinner with.
I’ll start
My choices would be...
1. William Shatner : Captain James Tiberius Kirk The Man, The Myth, The Legend. I have read his books and watched his shows (Boston Legal was really top shelf stuff.) I would just be giddy to meet the man much less have a drink and hang on his every word for a night.

2. Scott Bakula: Captain Jonathan Archer (Enterprise) The dude seems like a pretty cool cat and the kinda guy you can sit back and drink beer with. Plus I think you could really pick up the babes with his rugged good looks (even if he has those squinty eyes)

3. Jonathan Frakes: Commander William Thomas Riker (ST:TNG) Frakes seems like the kinda guy you can sit by a warm fire drinking port as he regales you with bawdy tale after bawdy tale. Then get up and go out and chase some tail. Smooth and sly. Has that mischievous twinkle in his eye too.

4. Ricardo Montalban : Khan Noonian Singh (Wrath of Khan) Come on. The guy was just coolness incarnate. It's too bad that he spent the last part of his life confined to a wheelchair (with Corinthian leather, no doubt). In fact, when he did his role in Spy Kids as Grandfather it was completley from his wheelchair, I guess you would have to see the movie to understand that statement.

5. Jeri Ryan : 7 of 9 (Voyager) She is hot. Forget talking. Nuff said.


But that’s me. What about you?



TRIVIA
* Each of the three live-action Star Trek series after the original "Star Trek" (1966) has had a cameo appearance by a character from its predecessor series in its premiere episode: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) had Dr. McCoy "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) had Captain Picard, and "Star Trek: Voyager" had Quark. Voyager also had William Riker, Deanna Troi, Reg Barclay, Geordi LaForge and Hikaru Sulu in guest appearances, and footage of James T. Kirk appeared in Deep Space Nine.

* There are only six actors to play the same character on three different "Star Trek" series: Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker), Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), Armin Shimerman (Quark), John de Lancie (Q), Michael Ansara (Kang) and Richard Poe (Gul Evek). Voyager is the only series in which all six appear.

* Production for Star Trek III was endangered by the great fire at Paramount. William Shatner helped fight the fire and rescue a crewmember before firefighter reinforcements arrived. Shatner said that his motivation for doing so was purely to save a day on the shooting schedule, as he had a make a deadline to be available for shooting on a new season of "T.J. Hooker" (1982).

* Majel Barrett, the wife of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, has a role in Star Trek as the voice of the Enterprise computer. She completed her voice-over work in the new Trek film two weeks before her death on December 18, 2008.

* According his own diagnostics, Commander Data's data storage capacity is 800 quadrillion bits. This translates into 100 petabytes or 100 PB. For comparison purposes, the HTML content of the ENTIRE internet ca. 2005 was estimated at 1-2 PB.

* James Doohan (Scotty) lost his right middle finger during World War II. Most of his scenes are shot to hide it. However, it is very noticeable in "Catspaw". When Scotty is holding a phaser pistol on Kirk & Spock, only two fingers are holding the butt of the phase

And my favorite...

* With Star Trek Nichelle Nichols and William Shatner shared the first on-screen kiss between a black female and white male on American television. This resulted in a deluge of mail. 99% of which was positive.


PS
My Dream Girl
She is HOT
She has a full flask of Alcohol
and
She has a real live tat of the Klingon Empire symbol on her chest.

where have you been all my life?

save

Where were you when I was a boy?

Kids who are Star Wars fan have always dreamed of finishing the dreaded Darth Vader themselves, using their Jedi “force” techniques, an ultra cool light saber and a giant walking carrier. Well, I can’t assure you to provide you with the former two, but, what I can promise is that this AT-AT Imperial Walker bed will surely compensate the your third want.



This user called BykManDan surely knows how to deliver geeky Star Wars crazy people with the best of merchandise, don’t you agree? The user further adds that this was specially made for his son, who is a Star Wars fan, with stuffs that are readily available in your nearest store. The user has been quite generous to provide us with the video below of the proceedings during him making this novelty.

Overall, this Star Wars AT-AT creation is something any Star Wars geek would love to go to sleep at night in.



INSTRUCTABLES



Of course if I tried to make this it would probably end up looking like a cross between an aardvark and a lawn dart.
I have stupendous ideas but they tend to lose something in the translation from brain to hands.

UNdead and loving it.

Well now 40 doesn’t feel all that different

Now I have gone from the old side of young to the young side of old.

Body still feels like it is 55
Mind still thinks it’s 29
And
I still act like a 12 year old.

Wow.
I can still remember thinking that 45 was OLD and that’s when I was probably going to die.
Once you get there it really don’t seem that far away.

Birthday was OK, same as usual actually. One main difference was all the well wishes I was sent on Facebook. I don’t think I have ever had that many people tell me happy birthday in my life and definitely not within the last 20 years.
That was pretty cool!

My work gives each person a $100 bucks on their birthday and then gives out their age in $10’s on their “landmark” birthdays (20,30,40).
I went out and bought myself the 32” HDTV I had been wanting for some time.
My mother got me a laptop cooling base which I already have one but cant have too many when it comes to portability.
My Grandmother and In-laws sent checks (cash always makes for a great present as it is always the right color and one size fits all). Not much but enough for a couple of DVDs or a computer game (like I have the time for a game.)

My brother-in –laws have never acknowledged my birthday unless I have done some computer work for them near that date. Funny how that works.

We had storms in the area so I was out grilling steaks in the rain and lightning last night for supper. PHM remarked how Wildcat had me standing outside in the rain with a large metal fork in my hand.

That was it.

No parades, No fanfare
Just another day ending in Y (why?)







PS
and Yeah, to point out the obvious, that's yours truly above.

Conflicted

Simpson Fears Revenge Attack Behind Bars

Incarcerated O.J. Simpson is living in fear behind bars because he's convinced his cellmate is plotting to kill him.

The former American footballer was sentenced to serve at least 15 years in a Nevada prison last December after his conviction for armed robbery relating to a September 2007 sports memorabilia heist.

He is serving his time at Lovelock Correctional Center as he awaits progress on his appeal, but according to the National Enquirer, Simpson is terrified his cellmate is plotting to take revenge on him for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson-Brown.

The retired sportsman was cleared of killing his ex and her friend Ron Goldman in 1995, but the shamed star is allegedly fearful he will become the target of a revenge attack.

According to the tabloid, Simpson has told pals, "My cellmate is nuts. He's a killer, and he hates me. He told me that he is in prison for murder and rape, and he hates my guts because I got away with murdering my ex-wife.

"He's told me he is going to strangle me in my sleep the first chance he gets."

Friends of Simpson are worried The Naked Gun star is gradually being driven to insanity and are concerned he will not survive his prison stint.

An insider says, "I think O.J. is finally losing it. If he has to stay in prison for a long time, he won't make it."

Simpson is due back in court on 3 August when a judge will decide whether to grant him bail pending his appeal
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I ran across this article on IMDB today.
Now here is where I am conflicted.
The major news source cited is the National Enquirer.
Seriously?!
Someone is going to actually take the time to write an article using that rag as the major source?
David Berkowitz had a better source of information then that.

STOP! Hammertime... (ok I HAD to say that!)

Heavy metal cure for constipation – Around the World – Austrian Times

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Going Green

Absinthe.
Have you ever heard of it?
Wikipedia says
Absinthe is historically described as a distilled, highly alcoholic (45%–74% ABV) beverage.[1][2][3][4] It is an anise-flavored spirit derived from herbs, including the flowers and leaves of the herb Artemisia absinthium, commonly referred to as "grande wormwood". Absinthe traditionally has a natural green color but can also be colorless. It is commonly referred to in historical literature as "la fée verte" (the Green Fairy).

Blah blah blah BORING!

Here is the part I am interested in...

The effects of absinthe have been described by some as mind opening.[62] The most commonly reported experience is a "clear-headed" feeling of inebriation — a form of "lucid drunkenness". Chemist, historian and absinthe distiller Ted Breaux has claimed that the alleged secondary effects of absinthe may be caused by the fact that some of the herbal compounds in the drink act as stimulants, while others act as sedatives, creating an overall lucid effect of awakening.

Always wanted to try that stuff. It’s even on my 100 goals list.
Then low and behold my sister sends me a pic of her holding this bottle of Absinthe she had ordered online straight from Czechoslovakia itself.

Hmmm.
Gonna have to make some time here for a new experience.

Movie Review

K
I went and saw Potter on Saturday.
Not Happy about it.
Nope not at all.

I’m not gonna ruin anything for ya if you have read the books
Hell I wont ruin anything for ya if you haven’t
This aint the book.

I know they cant put EVERYTHING into the movie from the book. I understand that they have to pick a theme and run with that as the shooting script.
I just feel they really, REALLY chose the wrong direction on this one. There first “clue” they were going in the wrong direction was that they had to add shit into the movie. If you have read the books then you know that there is nothing missing from them.
They are great fun from start to finish.
So, if you feel the need to add a scene that was purely created for the movie you gotta realize you chose the wrong path.

I will say this, there were some really funny scenes in the movie.
LOL funny in fact!
They just told the wrong bloody story. They seemed to concentrate on the relationships between the characters more then anything else.
The movie is called “the half blood prince” for a reason
not whose snogging who (whom?)

I will say this. When Snape puts his finger to his lips and to indicate “shh” to Potter near the end I loudly exclaimed “oh, that’s bullshit!” and “oompf!”
(the ommpf was from the wife’s elbow embedded in my gut for making noise during the movie.)

My recommendation?
Go ahead and go, it’s worth seeing in a theater with the big sound and all.
Just go to a cheaper matinee’ showing, don’t pay full price.






PS:
This exchange took place on the way home.
(blahblah conversation,conversation)

PHM: I won’t tell you what I thought!
Wildcat: I don’t think I want to know what was in your mind.
Me: You’ve spent 20 years in mine, what’s the difference?
Beast: There’s a hot tub in mine!
(quiet)
Me: Game-Set and Match to the Beast.