I love the Rose Parade. I love Star Trek. So how cool to see the Enterprise back in it this year, to celebrate Star Trek's 60th anniversary. Congrats to everyone involved! The Star Trek nerd in me couldn't help but go back to revisit the Enterprise's previous voyages on a Rose Parade float....

Ah, New Year’s Eve, that wonderful time when you have to give part balloons a tracheostomy. Fortunately, the patients all survived.

2025 really was the year of the goat. And sheep.

Thanks to vibe coding, I now live to refactor. Which I had no idea about until one of my sons who does code said "Woah, that has 4,000 lines! No wonder everything is screwing up!" The AI that built the giant file agreed….

I've been using a Pixel 10 Pro Fold for about a month now & am in love with folding phones. I'd seen more people using folding phones out in the wild, not early tech adopters but just regular people like a cab driver and thought "Wow, maybe these are having a moment?"....

A Merry Star Trek Christmas Eve to all who are going boldly

5 4 3 2 1 … Thunderbirds are snow! My Christmas jumper from has arrived & is ready for the season

Finally found space for my two Swift spacecraft from Space: 1999, cousin to the Eagle. Nice to have them out of the boxes; aren’t they beauties? One in retro Dinky green; the other as seen in the Brian The Brain.

Public drowning demonstrations next month! Of the Harnham Water Meadows … no member of the public will be harmed. And they’re looking lovely this evening.

Bought a Christmas reindeer at the market and was thrilled it has both British and American lighting options. It’s a subtle but important difference. Can you tell which is which?….

I had no idea this technology existed until recently. It’s a “Tiny TV” that plays Star Trek episode clips & you can change “channels” with a tiny remote. So very happy to find one for sale, just arrived!

Cleaning the garage and found my long-lost keys that let me open anything

Brrr! It’s the time of year when it gets so cold in SoCal that I have to get out my long-sleeved t-shirts.

Just had to use my universal fix everything in the house tool

Am I vibe coding now? Asked Gemini to make me the old Star Trek game I played in high school on a timeshare system. And woah, it did. Told it about some glitches that it fixed. Then I thought "Could this be Voyager vs the Borg?" It did that & suggested adding a new ablative shields / armor option.

Friday, right? Friday!

Had an MRI for the first time yesterday (all is totally fine, was just a “let’s be really sure” thing). Anyway, what I never realized from all the times I’ve seen one on TV were the sounds. It was amazing. Like music. Best I’d describe it, felt like I was inside a Daft Punk album.

I was mixed on the USS Enterprise LEGO at first because it looks so blocky from the bottom. But other pictures from how you’d more likely see it from the top are cool. Ro Laren as the mini-figure for the free shuttlepod is fantastic. www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

I now own a Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator arcade game that I played as a teenager. Many quarters were spent. Unfortunately, I can’t fit inside with it being a Hallmark ornament and all. Otherwise, it’s perfect

Think I finally figured out why my network speed was so low

MoPOP in Seattle has such a great collection of sci-fi stuff. My favs from today: Captain Kirk’s chair and Starbucks Viper flight suit.

Celebrating 60 today with my love in one of my favorite places, Iceland — then off for time with my boys on the return home.

It’s both a birdhouse and a bottle opener because birds need beer.

St Paul’s at night

Enjoyed seeing the Gerry Anderson exhibit at the Museum of Brands in London. Lots of Space: 1999 and Thunderbirds displays, plus more from Gerry Anderson shows.

Good news! My hotel clock supports phone charging.

Oh to have had a Space: 1999 Eagle bike like this when I was a kid. Happy Breakaway Day!

This new iPhone 17 front camera that can do landscape or vertical selfies at the same time is terrible. It will spoil all the fun of my family shouting "C'mon Dad, just take it!" when I'm saying "Wait, wait, I want a vertical one too!" lifehacker.com/tech/iphone-...

Happy upcoming 20th birthday Techmeme! And congrats! You continue to be my daily read for tech news (along with sibling-site Memeorandum for political news) crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...

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It's been a long road, getting from there to LEGO Star Trek! Yes, yes, yes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4gb...

Happy #StarTrekDay to those who celebrate!

I have been and always shall be a Star Trek fan. Happy Star Trek Day!

How about using AI or anything to make my mobile browser smart enough to remove all those tracking codes in a URL when I copy-and-paste?

Not sure what to think about the new auto-pilot in my Waymo

The “What is Starfleet” episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds was excellent & the opening gave me serious Battlestar Galactica vibes.

Apple raising the price of Apple TV today made me aware there was an annual plan. Somehow this got by me! So now I’ve gone from $10/mo (and avoiding going to $13/mo) to $8.33/mo by getting the $100 annual plan.

The latest Alien: Earth was definitely a wow and keeping me constantly wondering what's next.

My Fitbit charger with a powerful magnet is like an eager-to-please its owner cat that brings unexpected surprises to the doorstep when I take it out of the bathroom drawer.

Two episodes in to Resident Alien & it's fantastic. Can't believe it's taken me so long to watch.

Transporters. Holodecks. Phasers. Starships! But I guess Starfleet doesn't develop seatbelt technology until the 33rd century.

I could both see the forest and the trees. And the coast. Nice hike in Big Sur.

I hate how you need specialist tools to fix your electronics these days.

Nozzles wouldn’t fit the vacuum hose so I’m basically NASA in Apollo 13

Finally saw Fantastic Four and enjoyed it. Enjoyed the retro styling even more. Plug magnetic data tapes. Amazing how something so archaic can still feel like high-tech computer stuff at the same time.

The Paramount Lodge had a set from an upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and it was incredible. Congrats @jvancitters.bsky.social and all the hard-working Star Trek team. Dream come true for a poor Starbase 80 boy like me.

Yes get excited for Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary — I am. But also the graphics in Hall H for the panel today were amazing. Trailer and shared clips from the film were fantastic.

Didn’t expect to get into Hall H this Comic-Con as I’m too old to camp now as an unaccompanied adult without my boys to keep me company. But surprise, it was walk right in this morning and what a great day. Some Walking Dead. Then hey, that’s Mark Hamill! Also, we had a Predator group selfie….

Made it in for Hall H at Comic-Con and it’s like old times with Button Lady asking a question. IYKYK