I apologize for nothing. NOTHING.

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

I am literally never going to get bored of this.

Quote a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap. FIRE BOMBER!

You know, there are about a million things I love about Babylon 5. The one thing that chaffs me is that the station, despite having multiple starfury squadrons, never seems to have anybody on hot standby. It's always Ivanova telling someone to launch and the pilot is all, "Cool, be there in 20"

SFF really needs at least one dedicated critic who's slinging haterade daily from a protected position. A big loud knowledgable hater. Nothing more fun than a thoroughly vicious review, including for books I really love!

Co-worker: So what are you doing with your time off. Me: *begins to hear Niamos playing*

Legend of the Galactic Heroes grand strategy game.

Cyber Knights Flashpoint remains an absolutely fantastic game - even when a run is at sec level 10 and any pretense of a plan toward doing things quietly has gone right down the shitter.

I am a data nerd who is angry he did not get the long form census.

It also means that tart taste of vomit that stays with you, in your mouth, long after biting into an unripe persimmon.

Ah yes, my old friend 早く and the inevitable sigh that comes with trying to figure out if we're meaning early or quickly.

Today: Person I know: Hey, Adam, May the 4th be with you. Me: Thanks, I have friends everywhere. Person I know: *makes the vulcan salute*

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

I, too, will hiss as people try to lure me from my hole with cheese. Respect, Oreo. Respect.

Sunday morning, time to... really... Do the day job again? We've done this 15 days in a row now. Where's the director?

Anyway back to doing day job work on the weekend. My album for this...endeavour remains my pick of the year, thus far: the Tiberian Sons' Three Aces as recorded Live at MAGFest. youtu.be/G8daOVQA9To?...

First lawn mow of the year done just in time for it to *adjusts glasses and glares like the meme* snow.

For the people who think Bluesky is dead: This is already the 3rd most viewed essay since our relaunch and it hasn't been out for 12 hours yet. 2/3rds of the traffic is from Bluesky.

Here's my new pitch for a Star Trek show. It's set in on Earth in 2099, and focuses on archeologist hired by the fledgling United Earth to go to the Australian Free State and secure books, VHS tapes & laser disks, so humanity can remember its own past and culture after World War 3.

TIL

New intern season is great because it means I get to preach the gospel of Yoshiki Tanaka/Yang Wen-Li.

SETI at home

I'm getting a haircut and my stylist has on some Hercules movie overhead. We're gladly giving it the business. At one point some Egyptians fire arrows at the Greeks, and the Greeks yell "testudo" and raise shield. I cackle. Anyway, my stylist was able to even out my sideburns.

The 6 people or so who follow me know I love building my Japanese vocab decks with images in them. Sometimes googling a word absent context evokes the worst of the internet. Today googling 急ブレーキ (emergency break) gave me this banger.

Macross Plus remains one of my favourites owing to its prescient warning about AI turning people into mush brained dullards. It got the modality wrong, but the moral of the story is correct and proper.

INCOMING VIRTUAL ON: This week Nick puts his brain into a robot. The problem is it didn't have tank tread legs. War will never be the same after we play Virtual On - Cyber Troopers.

Dumb argument with the wife episode 541: Which one of us can vocalize the theme to Night Court better and why it isn't you.

Fucking hell that's gonna make you feel small.

I have both of these games and they are, indeed, outstanding.

The running robot is not impressive.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Me: Friday morning NHK reading, this should be relaxing. NHK: So we've got the pope feuding with Oval Office, climate change, and the latest on the parents who murdered their kid in Kyoto. Me: *hears the Ace Combat Zero Spanish guitar*

Imagine an electronic device that still works after 30 years, and doesn't even need batteries. I did my taxes for years with this thing.

My new head canon is that Canada's role in founding XCOM was bigger than generally appreciated given logo similarities.

Correct.

A paper of record asks, "Can AI be a child of god" and 15 years ago I was rejected from a masters of journalism program. This timeline, man. The answer to the question is: sure, any number of bastard gods hate humanity and want to wipe us out while they laugh.

Research confirms what every cat owner already knows about these adorable little tyrants. news.web.nhk/news/easy/ne...

The new year's over, spring has come, and people are ramping up for the summer JLPT. Here's a guide on how to study for the exam and what you can use to learn: jtalkonline.com/how-to-study...

Watching the Artemis II feed is an emotional rollercoaster as the crew shares some of the most profoundly, beautiful, human experiences anyone has ever known, and then CAPCOM cuts in to inform them that they've reached the threshold where toilet is now unusable.

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

I got my JLPT certificate and formal score card. My score put me in the 86th percentile. So that's pretty fucking ninja.

I'll say this about The Expanse video game. I don't get the aesthetic. You'd think it was Gears of War for all the chunky armour on display. And the video I saw has a lot of people in said armour speaking Belter Patois, and those things don't really go together. So what's the deal here?

I enjoy Marathon. The quality of randomly assigned teammates...varies.

Chronoton weapons. Fuck.

So my thought is that whatever planet One Piece is set on was at one point a highly advanced and technologically sophisticated civilization. In a moment of profound hubris, this society got it in their heads to make a lot of weapons; calamity followed.

Sometimes you look at a news story and ask yourself, "When did I learn the Kanji for 'diesel'?"