Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

Please, just be raptured already.

According to my mother, my middle name is James. Or, as she would say, Santiago. Except that Santiago is *St. James* in English. Growing up, James was Jaime or Diego. But recently I thought… couldn’t my middle name be Sandiego? Just so I could sing “Where in the world is Andrés Sandiego?” […]

Sometimes I watch #startrek and see something that feels so crazy unsafe. Forex, in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Admiral Kirk gets into a weird elevator (bear the end of his inspection) that seems to be fit for one occupant and had no door or safety rail. I guess he just gets in and hopes […]

My half-assed contribution to the cultural discussion of how the Minnesota Vikings introduced two new (male identifying) cheerleaders: “The dude does a backflip!! Why aren’t we all jazzed about this?”

For some reason, I've become a big fan of "finding reasons to justify why things that different writers wrote in a specific fictional canon that don't seem to make sense actually do make sense if you think of it a certain way." So today it's #startrek, how the events of the most recent episode […]

I was talking to somebody, trying to inspire them to be a good mentor for the junior employees at his job. “Look, you can be a Hemmer (from StarTrek:SNW). You can be a grump who is really good at their job and mentor your junior co-worker!” To which he relied: “Doesn’t he die at work?”

I miss when the internet was just web pages.

A moment to appreciate that while all of the original DLC is part of the Oblivion Remaster, one specific DLC package is only available as part of the "Deluxe Edition"... the Horse Armor.

How does the story of “Senator meets with man who was erroneously captured and extradited” not end with “and the Senator brings him home”? If a US Senator flies to El Salvador to meet with somebody who was deported in error and doesn’t come back with that person in tow, wrapped in the comforts […]

last week, I played The Walking Dead Universe RPG from Free League Games for the first time. It uses a slight variant on the Alien RPG (also from Free League). I enjoyed it much more than I expected (quite a bit, really) and now I find myself thinking about trying to start games of it to play […]

I was thinking about how some TV shows drop the name of a real person who later ends up being a goon, but that ends up working out. Forex, in season 1 of Star Trek, a character refers to Elon Musk as one of the greatest engineering minds in history. But that works out because that character is […]

I noticed that #civilizationvii has an option for "play experience" that allows for Laptop/Desktop, Television, or Handheld. As somebody who tried to play Civ VI on his television when it came out and later tried to play on the Steam Deck, I appreciate that they're providing that sort of […]