the 2nd season had several pretty good episodes, and the worst episodes are nowhere near as bad as the worst from season 1. there are also several episodes that are flawed but have some great things going for them, so it just depends on your tolerance level.

I was a happy happy child when I found the model kit that let you build the romulan warbird, the klingon bird of prey, and the ferengi crab-ship. The romulan ship was the best, and luckily, the models were cast to scale. It was even approximately to scale with the die-cast metal enterprise-D I already had.

In the future, all people will simultaneously have all hobbies.

consider that Sarah Palin was a few percentage points and one so-likely heart attack away from being our current president. leaders of nuclear powers do not necessarily have a rudimentary understanding of consequences.

i was thinking about this recently. remember when the dow dropped 1000 points in the span of minutes, and no one really knew why? they still don't know why. some think it's related to the systems that have been built to execute super-fast trades based on automated reactions, which may have interacted in an…

3 things:
1. using _armageddon_ as the sole example of the asteroidacolypse without even mentioning the flawed but still deeply superior _deep impact_, which if memory serves, came out like two months prior? with Morgan Freeman as best apocalypse-prez ever? lame.

wow, this is not my kind of show.
first time tuning back in to glee after bailing around the third episode. i adore NPH with ferocity, so i had to give it a shot. but man, i just cannot get into this! i had to stop it during the final musical number (after first scanning through to make sure NPH wasn't going to pop…

staci and tiffany are pretty much tied for most hilarious voices ever.

best daria moment ever?
when daria agrees with her mom to go to "social skills counseling" at school. she walks in and sees tiffany (from the fashion club) sitting there.

but they're thinking of changing the name.

you know, we used to get by with VHS tapes just fine when that was all we had. does it really prevent you from enjoying the episodes? i mean, they're animation fer chrissakes.

i think i wasn't smart enough to appreciate the show as a teenage boy. as a 30-year-old man rediscovering it, now i finally have some role models.

"you know your negative attitude is ultimately self-defeating, don't you?"
"well, it's nice to know there's *someone* i can defeat."

too.

sometimes i think Levar Burton was the best actor on TNG. i know everyone loves to gush on Stewart, but that's an argument i don't want to get into again (the short version is i find Stewart to "actor"y, while Burton feels more real).

that takes me back.
i was a subject for a study once in college where they were looking at how hormone levels in the bloodstream respond to stress. i had an IV continually taking samples while i stood in front of a video camera and a panel of serious-looking people and who instructed me to count backwards from 1000…

android badassery
data dodging and destroying the laser drill in "home soil" was like my favorite scene ever when i was 9. watching it again is mostly nostalgic, but still a little bit cool.

i guess i'm just a big ol' mis-Kling-thrope, but the klingon episodes of TNG are my least favorite as a group. i find the klingon characterization indicative of the worst aspects of the show: overly broad, under-nuanced, vaguely ***-ist, dependent on stereotypes that bring out the Acting School 101 chops. i think…

not death scenes, but death reaction scenes.
i guess it's in keeping with my apparently unusual views about death (no personal fear of it, but have great empathy for the mourning survivors left behind): what stick out in my mind are not actual death scenes, but memorable reactions to death. two are particularly…

minor correction:
inviting michael over to the halpert household was not part of the michael-consolation plan, it was a tactic to determine whether he had really broken up with his lady friend or not. because they knew the only thing he'd refuse to cancel for that long-yearned evening with the office's beautiful…