The constant dilemma of the office-worker's morning: take the time to iron a pair of pants? Or take the time to shave my legs and wear a skirt? In terms of hassle, they take about the same amount of time, and one of them can be done while in the shower. Skirt it is. Option C, finding a pair of pants that does not require ironing, is simply too ridiculous to be considered.
I am getting all excited about Star Trek Online. If ever there was an excuse for me to get off my ass and scrape up the money to put together a new desktop, this is it. I eagerly await Cryptic's announcement of release date and hardware requirements. The STO forums are currently host to a 47-page thread that consists of entirely of people from the old Star Trek RP room on the Webchat Broadcasting System checking in. That room and those people were my life for four or five years in high school and college, and I still talk to quite a few of them.
Does anyone else think that handing people invisibility technology might be a bad idea? I seriously worry about the non-overtly-military-but-still-governmental usage of this. And then, of course, you have your garden variety criminals and perverts. Call me a photon chauvinist, but I would like everyone to stay fully visible, thank you. Fortunately this is still a long ways off being useful, so my worrying is probably premature.
It's kind of sad, but everytime I read this post from the Language Log, all that runs through my head is Weird Al's 'Close, But No Cigar'. Go find it on youtube. It's funny, even though the animation is terrifyingly remniscent of Ren & Stimpy (after typing that, I went and looked it up - turns out the video is animated by the same guy. Ah, us whacky Canadians).
I am getting all excited about Star Trek Online. If ever there was an excuse for me to get off my ass and scrape up the money to put together a new desktop, this is it. I eagerly await Cryptic's announcement of release date and hardware requirements. The STO forums are currently host to a 47-page thread that consists of entirely of people from the old Star Trek RP room on the Webchat Broadcasting System checking in. That room and those people were my life for four or five years in high school and college, and I still talk to quite a few of them.
Does anyone else think that handing people invisibility technology might be a bad idea? I seriously worry about the non-overtly-military-but-still-governmental usage of this. And then, of course, you have your garden variety criminals and perverts. Call me a photon chauvinist, but I would like everyone to stay fully visible, thank you. Fortunately this is still a long ways off being useful, so my worrying is probably premature.
It's kind of sad, but everytime I read this post from the Language Log, all that runs through my head is Weird Al's 'Close, But No Cigar'. Go find it on youtube. It's funny, even though the animation is terrifyingly remniscent of Ren & Stimpy (after typing that, I went and looked it up - turns out the video is animated by the same guy. Ah, us whacky Canadians).
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