qvack
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Childless cat lady 🐈 into classical music & jazz 🎵 sci-fi 👽 and being on/near water ⛵️ work with PeopleSoft and higher ed finance 💻 Presbyterian (PC(USA)) and Benedictine Oblate ⛪️ multiple myeloma patient 💉
Only the second time in 4.5 years he has curled up on my lap! He likes to get on the back of the recliner and often sleeps next to me, and if I have food he will climb all over me attempting to steal it-- but not usually a lap cat. Must be cold.
January 25, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Only the second time in 4.5 years he has curled up on my lap! He likes to get on the back of the recliner and often sleeps next to me, and if I have food he will climb all over me attempting to steal it-- but not usually a lap cat. Must be cold.
Not my house but I know my way around
January 9, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Not my house but I know my way around
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, sound garden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
www.discogs.com/release/1841...
www.discogs.com/release/1841...
Dawn Upshaw - White Moon (Songs To Morpheus)
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1996 CD release of "White Moon (Songs To Morpheus)" on Discogs.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, sound garden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
www.discogs.com/release/1841...
www.discogs.com/release/1841...
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
I haven't decided on a name yet but it's totally based on this place
What are you calling it?
I haven't decided on a name yet but it's totally based on this place
December 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
I haven't decided on a name yet but it's totally based on this place
What are you calling it?
I haven't decided on a name yet but it's totally based on this place
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Eden" - farm-to-table concept. Retro musical entertainment. Might want to bring the antacid. Our fresh fruit is to die for!
What are you calling it?
"Eden" - farm-to-table concept. Retro musical entertainment. Might want to bring the antacid. Our fresh fruit is to die for!
December 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Eden" - farm-to-table concept. Retro musical entertainment. Might want to bring the antacid. Our fresh fruit is to die for!
What are you calling it?
"Eden" - farm-to-table concept. Retro musical entertainment. Might want to bring the antacid. Our fresh fruit is to die for!
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Sister Edith's" - it's a soup kitchen, totally free, of course. (But we'd appreciate it if you listen to an inspirational, oddly sci-fi-themed speech by this week's guest star.)
What are you calling it?
"Sister Edith's" - it's a soup kitchen, totally free, of course. (But we'd appreciate it if you listen to an inspirational, oddly sci-fi-themed speech by this week's guest star.)
December 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Sister Edith's" - it's a soup kitchen, totally free, of course. (But we'd appreciate it if you listen to an inspirational, oddly sci-fi-themed speech by this week's guest star.)
What are you calling it?
"Sister Edith's" - it's a soup kitchen, totally free, of course. (But we'd appreciate it if you listen to an inspirational, oddly sci-fi-themed speech by this week's guest star.)
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Muddruckers" - burger joint coordinated by Norman. All the servers look alike. Ask for the Stella special!
What are you calling it?
"Muddruckers" - burger joint coordinated by Norman. All the servers look alike. Ask for the Stella special!
December 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Muddruckers" - burger joint coordinated by Norman. All the servers look alike. Ask for the Stella special!
What are you calling it?
"Muddruckers" - burger joint coordinated by Norman. All the servers look alike. Ask for the Stella special!
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Captain's Table" - a omakase / chef's tasting experience modeled on SNW Pike's quarters/dinners. Mess dress only required first visit. Gunning for a Michelin star.
What are you calling it?
"Captain's Table" - a omakase / chef's tasting experience modeled on SNW Pike's quarters/dinners. Mess dress only required first visit. Gunning for a Michelin star.
December 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
You’ve just opened up a Star Trek themed restaurant.
What are you calling it?
"Captain's Table" - a omakase / chef's tasting experience modeled on SNW Pike's quarters/dinners. Mess dress only required first visit. Gunning for a Michelin star.
What are you calling it?
"Captain's Table" - a omakase / chef's tasting experience modeled on SNW Pike's quarters/dinners. Mess dress only required first visit. Gunning for a Michelin star.
Look, it was bad enough living through it the first time, spare me the end-of-year recaps already!
December 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Look, it was bad enough living through it the first time, spare me the end-of-year recaps already!
This morning the cats got into a big fight, I separated them until after lunch. This afternoon they conspired together to break into a food dispenser. I told them, see how much you can accomplish when you put your differences aside. (I also locked up the food dispenser.)
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This morning the cats got into a big fight, I separated them until after lunch. This afternoon they conspired together to break into a food dispenser. I told them, see how much you can accomplish when you put your differences aside. (I also locked up the food dispenser.)
Read Automatic Noodle and it made me hungry so I had to go out for noodles in the middle of it and my main takeaway is that I need to eat more noodles.
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Read Automatic Noodle and it made me hungry so I had to go out for noodles in the middle of it and my main takeaway is that I need to eat more noodles.
It's that time of year when this PSA is particularly important: www.retrojunk.com/c/3L0hspgYwX...
Nick at Nite - How to Be Swell, Avoiding Unwanted Relatives | Commercial | Retro Junk
Your memory machine
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November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It's that time of year when this PSA is particularly important: www.retrojunk.com/c/3L0hspgYwX...
My most Gen X complaint is nobody cares about Gen X complaints.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My most Gen X complaint is nobody cares about Gen X complaints.
I'm nearing the end of my Voyager watchthrough and watched "Friendship One" _the day before_ "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" and I won't even mention Botany Bay so can we *please* promise not to send anything else out of the solar system (godspeed V'ger) before Zephrim comes along. Please.
August 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I'm nearing the end of my Voyager watchthrough and watched "Friendship One" _the day before_ "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" and I won't even mention Botany Bay so can we *please* promise not to send anything else out of the solar system (godspeed V'ger) before Zephrim comes along. Please.
What's y'all's favorite episodes of Star Trek from before it became woke and political?
Mine is the TOS episode where Kirk says the Constitution isn't just for the elite or even just Yangs but Kohms as well. "We the People" must apply to everyone or the words mean nothing.
So non-political.
Mine is the TOS episode where Kirk says the Constitution isn't just for the elite or even just Yangs but Kohms as well. "We the People" must apply to everyone or the words mean nothing.
So non-political.
August 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
What's y'all's favorite episodes of Star Trek from before it became woke and political?
Mine is the TOS episode where Kirk says the Constitution isn't just for the elite or even just Yangs but Kohms as well. "We the People" must apply to everyone or the words mean nothing.
So non-political.
Mine is the TOS episode where Kirk says the Constitution isn't just for the elite or even just Yangs but Kohms as well. "We the People" must apply to everyone or the words mean nothing.
So non-political.
Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
They don't include TOS or Babylon 5, which makes it difficult for me to validate. But I'm okay with this.
They don't include TOS or Babylon 5, which makes it difficult for me to validate. But I'm okay with this.
May 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
They don't include TOS or Babylon 5, which makes it difficult for me to validate. But I'm okay with this.
They don't include TOS or Babylon 5, which makes it difficult for me to validate. But I'm okay with this.
How the drug that's merely keeping me alive made a few people obscenely rich instead:
I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
May 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
How the drug that's merely keeping me alive made a few people obscenely rich instead:
Share a screenshot of what you consider the best moment of television.
April 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Share a screenshot of what you consider the best moment of television.
I finally ponied up for Paramount+ in December and am working my way though the new Trek series. Recently started Picard season 3. He made her a MIX TAPE!!! (Excuse me, compilation of classics.)
April 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I finally ponied up for Paramount+ in December and am working my way though the new Trek series. Recently started Picard season 3. He made her a MIX TAPE!!! (Excuse me, compilation of classics.)
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Yesterday's release of firmware update 7E93 for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 included an unexpected feature. Using AI-enhanced technology and Apple's proprietary noise-cancelling software, AirPod owners can now select the specific temperament in which they would like to experience the world.
April 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Yesterday's release of firmware update 7E93 for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 included an unexpected feature. Using AI-enhanced technology and Apple's proprietary noise-cancelling software, AirPod owners can now select the specific temperament in which they would like to experience the world.
Said goodbye to my Tula this morning. She would have turned 19 next month. She loved to snuggle, but heaven help anyone who tried to hold her! She would scream when unhappy, but also when happy--she only had one volume setting. She stubbornly kept going much longer than I thought she could.
March 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Said goodbye to my Tula this morning. She would have turned 19 next month. She loved to snuggle, but heaven help anyone who tried to hold her! She would scream when unhappy, but also when happy--she only had one volume setting. She stubbornly kept going much longer than I thought she could.
Today's meditation on Matthew 25 with Kristi Noem: Lord, Lord, *technically* I did visit you in prison.
March 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Today's meditation on Matthew 25 with Kristi Noem: Lord, Lord, *technically* I did visit you in prison.
In my recovery from a broken femur last year, I've gone from a brief bit in a wheelchair to a walker to a rollator and now a cane. Now, when I'm grumpy, I can shake my cane. It's somewhat satisfying. Now get off my lawn!
March 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
In my recovery from a broken femur last year, I've gone from a brief bit in a wheelchair to a walker to a rollator and now a cane. Now, when I'm grumpy, I can shake my cane. It's somewhat satisfying. Now get off my lawn!