they waste no time.

Last night of the #startrekcruise. We went to a Starfleet Academy panel followed by a variety show. After dinner, we watched Marina Sirtis and Jonathan Frakes perform the play “Love Letters”. Now we are packed and heading back towards Florida. But we have already booked for the 2027 cruise!

current situation

Nana Visitor directed a script reading of “The Man Trap” last night on #startrekcruise.

Last night Bob Picardo hosted a musical extravaganza with stars from many Star Trek series.

Members of TNG cast, Rod Roddenberry, more science, and a gorn gong show.

Last night we saw Connor Trinneer and Terry Farrell discuss her early days as a model turned actress. Then a very funny improv show with Tawny Newsome and Eugene Cordero.

walked around San Juan taking a break from the Trek.

last night Anthony Rapp put on an excellent show with a mix of Broadway, David Bowie, Radiohead, Rilo Kiley and more. Every show on this cruise has been excellent.

Yesterday afternoon we listened to William Shatner tell stories and answer questions for an hour. Horses, Christopher Reeve, bears in Alaska, how compromises ruined Star Trek 5. #startrekcruise

I’ll upload the rest when I get home: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8x2JsUM/

Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

this afternoon had Quark, Q, and Qirk (well Kirk). I can now check off seeing William Shatner performing Rocket Man live from my Star Trek list. #startrekcruise

this afternoon had Quark, Q, and Qirk (well Kirk). I can now check off seeing William Shatner performing Rocket Man live from my Star Trek list. #startrekcruise

Just heard a space lecture from Dr. Erin MacDonald, Star Trek Science Advisor (and fellow DragonCon attendee.)

On this rainy day in Georgia, my latest article might be worth a read. Percent chance of rain is challenging concept for many and it may be because of how our brains are wired. At ---> www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Just attended a lecture about rhetoric in Shakespeare from Armin Shimerman (Quark). #startrekcruise

Day 1 has been getting my bearings (port, aft, starboard, forward) and seeing what’s what.

day 1 balcony view

I was just in the elevator with Nana Visitor and she thought we were people with impeccable taste thanks to my DS9 shirt.

I hope y’all are ready for some Star Trek cruise posts this week.

The Phantom, "The Ghost Who Walks", debuted in newspapers 90 years ago on this day in 1936! #thephantom #theghostwhowalks #newspapercomics #patreon #clipstudiopaint

Space Ghost by Michael Cho

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

I decided to try the TooGoodToGo app today. In Athens, GA you have the choice between the Circle K and Hibachi Grill. $3.99 got me some chips, a meat stick, some gummy bears, and a sausage, egg, and cheese muffin. Nothing was close to expiring except the mcmuffin.

The candidate for US Senate endorsed by Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t vote for 20 years, including the 2016 & 2020 presidential elections. apnews.com/article/dere...

this time next week i’ll be on the star trek boat

UGA is adding minors in forensic science and scientific diving if anyone wants to combine those into a crime fighting career.

RIP, James Van Der Beek. And fuck cancer.

Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:

#academicsky #philsky #edusky

Textless poster featuring Baby Krypto from DCU’s Supergirl. Flying into theaters on June 26. #Supergirl #BabyKrypto #DCU #DCStudios

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

Wrote a little thing about work my class is doing this semester in a historically Black cemetery in town. Yet major map providers don't even show the cemetery space on their maps. Our work is trying to fill that cartographic void. www.communitymappinglab.org/blog/the-abs...

Happy February 1987

Sorry, I couldn't hear you! I was listening to my Pizza Hut AM radio with pan pizza headphones from Radio Shack

GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )

"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference" "there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies" "2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year" A win!

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

blow the whistle on software pirates.

For your enjoyment, the Superman screenplay. www.superman.com/script/super...

the best sport that is televised in january is women’s college gymnastics and i will not be taking further questions

Pictures from the last week. Went to gymnastics last night. Went to the dead mall last weekend. last friday went to the high and museum of design. youtu.be/5PP_MAvUzfw?...

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

exercised. ate some dumpling master. stood in my backyard with gidget. big day.