I’m a sucker for someone moving away from their desk to talk to you. That’s good management.

I wasn’t crazy about the whole “it was all a dream” format. I WAS pleasantly surprised at how Macfarlane apt is getting the Kirk-ian mentoring scenes.

Everyone was evil on that show, why should she have stood out?

Penny Johnson is showing us she was massively underused in DS9.

The whole Kingdom of the Spiders moment was the highlight for me. I really liked their willingness to get genuinely spooky, more than Trek ever really did. They had the occasional vaguely horror-tinged episode but never really went as far with it.

I dropped the reference images into Photoshop and, yes, it’s possible to slide the image to the right and mostly fit her head and hair into the layout (you’d still have to airbrush out a little of the frizz to keep it entirely out of the text box), but the composition they went with is much stronger.
Currently her…

“I am disappointed that @graziauk invited me to be on their cover and then edited out and smoothed my hair to fit their notion of what beautiful hair looks like.”

Unless they were going to a desert planet which meant a trip to...

Well, some of them look like Vancouver...In British Columbia.

The script is not entirely full of shit, surprisingly. Mostly, yes, but not entirely. It’s referring to the DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony, which is run by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. It involves 7 different people doing an elaborately tamper-proofed update of one of the top level Domain Name System servers…

Well done, Orville: this week, none of the jokes undermined the story.

no, as it was explained in Stargate all planets in the universe look like either a quarry in british colombia, or the forest right behind that quarry. also in british colombia.

Dear Orville,

Can we talk about how the Internet is contained in one (admittedly large) room? The idea that you can physically locate the Internet somewhere is, like, the oldest people-not-understanding-how-the-Internet-works gags there is, and here it’s played completely straight.

NASA’s Ocean Melting Greenland (OMG) campaign

I guarantee you that the majority of Texans couldn’t name more than two people who fought and died in the Alamo. I guarantee you at least 25% of Texans think the Alamo is just a figure of speech. Otherwise, point taken.

“For example, most of human history” is an excellent sentence for almost any conversation.

Eleanor being unapologetically DTF in any and all situations is the best running gag/universal constant (and I love that this episode brought back that this goes double for Stone Cold Steve Austin and/or Tahani).

Is your therapist a Nicholas Sparks book?

Chidi ethics pedant corner - the review implies that utilitarianism is a selfish philosophical framework. It actually demands that the individuals practicing it sacrifice their interests for the benefit of the greater good. The only problem is that people are extremely talented at convincing themselves that their…