Reformed Trekking

09.02.2003

I've often called myself a reformed trekker. I used to be a big Star Trek nerd, but I don't claim it anymore. I got burned out by the 6th season of TNG, but I still have a soft spot for the original and next generation episodes (but everything after I pretty well skipped).

Part of my holiday weekend was spent in front of the tv watching a TNG marathon on Spike "we're not TNN anymore" TV. I probably caught bits and pieces of 5 or 6 episodes throughout the day. One in particular caught my eye: Emergence , in which the Enterprise is infected with a lifeform trying to give birth to itself,but the only clues lie in holodeck programs merged together. About halfway through I remembered watching it the first time, and many old memories flashed back:

• It was bad. Story, special effects, etc. This was one of the last episodes before the series finale, so I guess the bedget for the season had already been spent.
• The train on the holodeck is heading to Verteform City (a reference to verteron particles being needed for the new life form). I recall Jerry and I saying "Goin' ta Verteform City" in our best hick voices many times after that.

Yet still I watched. At least until they made it to New Verteform City. Yee Haw!

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Quirky News

08.29.2003

Ebay falsely stops an auctioneer from selling highway sign replicas. I've seen the guy advertise on Fark for a couple of months, so it was a surprise to see something I had seen before pop up in totally unrelated news!

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Mowers

08.28.2003

I found out that my excitement with the leaking lawn mower gas tank isn't localized to just me. Murray has issued a recall of over 90,000 mowers dues to 950 reports of leaking tanks. What does this mean to me? Well, first of all it should be getting fixed for free! Second of all, there's now a shortage of the damn tanks, so there's no telling when it'll get fixed!

Meanwhile, the grass still grows.....

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Camtoon <strike>Tue</strike> Wednesday

08.27.2003

Only a day late, but the 50th camtoon celebration is up.

One of the things I learned while making this one was how to make a pie chart in Excel. I hardly ever use Excel, but thanks to the internet I can find out what ever I need to know instead of going out and flipping through a book at Barnes & Noble.

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Deadlines Deadlines Deadlines

08.26.2003

I've got a project at work that's got a deadline of Wednesday. Maybe it can be pushed off until Friday.

Either way, I don't think it's going to make it.

That's my poor excuse for lack of a camtoon today. If it helps any, the next scheduled camtoon is to be the 50th episode spectacular!

Stoopid deadlines.

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