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Always #StarTrek

Also #Widower

Work: #WebDeveloper / #WebAccessibility

More: #PhiladelphiaFlyers / #Chess / #ImogenHeap / #SpiderMan

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All I can see is a Monolith from "2001".
Rendition of a Monolith from "2001: A Space Odyssey".
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Obvious trigger warnings for anyone else who comes across this for the sexual reference.
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Mandatory.
Flyers Nipple Guy celebrates a win.
November 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Ran into these old photos from years ago while going through files and thought I'd share them. No idea whose car this was. We just randomly came across it in a parking lot while out grocery shopping.

#StarTrek
A mostly silver car painted with "USS Enterprise" on the driver's door and "Galileo" above the front left tire. Slightly closer angle of the same car showing that the "USS Enterprise" naming is accompanied aside it by a Starfleet delta symbol, and "NCC-1701/7" above the left rear tire.
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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"If you liked Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, check out Star Trek: Section 31" is a bold strategy, Cotton.

#StarTrek #StarTrekSection31
This screenshot of a notification from the Paramount+ iOS app reads "Find your next adventure! If you liked Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, check out Star Trek: Section 31, NCIS: Tony & Ziva and Survivor. Explore now!"
September 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Sometimes Amazon's pricing is seriously wack.

#Amazon
A supplement for sale on Amazon comes in bottles of 90, 120, or 130. All three are priced exactly the same.
September 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I decided to wait to enter the backyard yesterday until this butterfly finished its business.

My phone thinks it’s a Western Tiger Swallowtail, so I’ll go with that until told otherwise.

#Butterfly #Nature #NaturePhotography
The butterfly was busy on a milkweed plant doing whatever butterflies do.
June 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Now and then...but mostly "then".
Screenshot from a Star Trek episode showing the two bridge stations under discussion in this thread that are immediately port of the main viewscreen manned by crew members.
April 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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This area leans conservative but someone on the block is making a statement.

#USPol #USPolitics
The neighbor is flying the US flag from their lawn flagpole upside down, which is typically symbolic of distress or protest.
April 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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So apparently nature took its course and our two guest sheep in the backyard are now three guest sheep!
A newly born baby sheep (sex unknown) standing between light-colored mom Miranda on the left and brown-colored dad Zebedee on the right. The baby is a mix of their colors, light colored coat with brown spots. The baby hanging out near mom constantly, naturally.
March 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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No, but this is something more than what TNG did.
Tasha Yar from the TNG episode "The Naked Now", wearing a blue belly and underboob exposing blue outfit.
February 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I don't know what to make of that. 😆

#Spam
Spam I received from "Mr Pibb" with the subject line "your app" and the body "is ok, ok?"
February 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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@mikemcmahan.bsky.social will be pleased that sales of Lower Decks are apparently smashing!

#StarTrek #StarTrekLowerDecks
The Amazon listing for the Lower Decks Complete Series Blu-Ray is "temporarily out of stock".
January 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Sometimes my RSS reader queue is unintentionally ironic.

#NHL #Hockey #Flyers #LetsGoFlyers
Back to back items in my RSS reader queue: "What should the Flyers do to fix their goaltending problem? Exploring the options" by Kevin Kurz of The Athletic, and "Why Flyers shouldn't address goaltending right now" by Jason MacNeil of Broad Street Hockey.
January 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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"May contain inaccuracies". Yeah, the two sources being linked to both say that's the wrong answer, so.... (No I wasn't intentionally asking an AI to confirm the latest tvOS version. The general search just threw that in.)

#AI #DuckDuckGo #Apple #tvOS
The DuckDuckGo DuckAssist answer when I checked what the new version of Apple tvOS that just came out was: "The latest version of tvOS is 18.1, which was released on October 28, 2024. This update includes performance and stability improvements." The answer links to Wikipedia and Apple, and both linked pages correctly show 18.2 as the new version released on December 11th.
December 16, 2024 at 5:58 AM
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Keep trying, Max.

#NHL #Hockey
Two 'Rumble in the Rink!' notifications from the Max app. In the first, the notification says Vincent Trocheck and Vincent Trocheck were in a fight. In the second, the notification says it's Nicolas Aube-Kubel vs Nicholas Aube-Kubel.
December 12, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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Nine quintillion unread messages, Apple Mail?

Even counting spam, I doubt I've received that many messages in my lifetime. 😂

#Apple #AppleMail
For whatever reason, Apple Mail thought at one point I had 9,223,372,036,854,775,805 unread messages. (Toggling the unread filter off and on again fixed it.)
December 8, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Ah, Apple Music Replay. Otherwise known as what did I have on repeat for long stretches of 2024. 😆

#AppleMusic #AppleMusicReplay #Dido #PaulaCole #RaeMorris #LauraDoggett
Top Artist: Dido (3,118 minutes played) I was a Top 100 Listener of Paula Cole. I was a Top 100 Listener of Rae Morris. Top Song: 'Phoenix' by Laura Doggett
December 3, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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December 2, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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I missed the Flyers game, but this reminded me of grade school recess hockey, where "hockey" was kicking a tennis ball around. You flopped a lot on the asphalt to make saves. Mom got annoyed by the holes I'd tear in my good pants doing that.

#PhiladelphiaFlyers #LetsGoFlyers #NHL #Hockey #CARvsPHI
November 21, 2024 at 4:14 AM
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This is the kind of Monday we're going to have, I guess.

#Work
Coworker's comment in a Jira bug: 'I asked to be left off the ticket with the customer, but zendesk decided to reopen to ask my opinion on what I think about it. I have words, but not for the work environment. So reclosing ticket and moving on with life.'
November 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Still reading Nana Visitor's book "Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek" and it's very good. But from a Trek gossip standpoint, her anecdote that she pitched Rick Berman that should could do DS9 and VOY at the same time is wild.

#StarTrek #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrekVOY #NanaVisitor #OpenAChannel #WomansTrek
Book excerpt set shortly after Geneviève Bujold quit VOY; Nana Visitor speaking : 'The excitement surrounding a female captain was such that it overcame me as well, and I remember catching Rick Berman on the street in front of Stage 4 and passionately telling him I could do the role. He was kind. He said the obvious: We need you on DS9. I said that I could do both. It shows you what a big deal this character was; for the length of our conversation, I had complerely lost my mind. Kate Mulgrew literally came to the rescue, returning from a vacation in Ireland, and giving an audition that left the producers knowing that they had found their captain.'
November 12, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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It begins.

#USPol
Live Activities on my iPhone has activated with a live running count of electoral votes for present, and number of Democrats/Republicans in the House and Senate.
November 5, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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I know app developers often just phone it in when it comes to saying what's new in an update. But you have to look the text and update it now and then.

"Summer."

#Hulu
App update notes for the Hulu app: 'In this version, we concentrated on fixing bugs that were producing an undesirable streaming experience, as well as improving app performance. No new features in this release, but we constantly keep our viewers in mind when working behind the scenes. When you're ready, update the Hulu app, relax, and enjoy the summer.'
October 18, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Dear Paramount+: "Ghosts" doesn't have its season premiere until later this week. Stop toying with me.

#Ghosts #CBS #ParamountPlus
Paramount+ phone app notification: 'Your CBS favorites are back! It's CBS Premiere Week! New seasons of Tracker, Ghosts, The Neighborhood and more are now streaming on Paramount+.'
October 14, 2024 at 11:10 PM