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- Scotty, Gilligan, and Barney
- A great Eulogy by Marc Gellman, from newsweek:A friend I call The Flounder reminded me of the sorrowful fact that in the last nine months three television icons dear to me have, as we say in my line of work, passed to life eternal. They are James Doohan, who...
- Tags: barney, Deputy Fife, Gilligan, lessons for today, Mickster269, off-topic, scotty
- Discussion threads 2006-03-02
- and as I post this
- and as I post thisit had been on that website you quoted 25 minutes. Some of us have to work, you know.Shame on you for using Scotty's death to chide us...I hope all your applesauce goes sour and your shoes wear twice as fast! :pJames Doohan R.I.P.I cannot believe...
- Tags: Scotty
- Discussion threads 2005-07-20
- The final beam out
- While I'm notalways sad to hear about the death of a cultural icon, in this case Iam. JamesDoohan, better-known to Trekkers as Scotty, the ship's chief engineerfrom the original Star Trek series, died this week. He was 85. NewslinkNot manytelevision/movie characters, not even in the formidable Star Trek franchise,can claim...
- Tags: Scotty, Star Trek
- Blog posts 2005-07-21
Additional Resources
- Video: Star Trek interviews from beyond the grave
- The late Tom Snyder, who died this week, conducted a series of television interviews with several original Star Trek cast members: the late DeForrest Kelley McCoy, the late James Doohan Scotty, and the still kickin' Walter Koenig Chekov. Found via SF Signal and John Sheesley, the former also encouraging us...
- Tags: Video, Star Trek, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Friday Yuk
- Some one-liners to start this weeks Friday Yuk.-----I love animals, they taste great.EARTH FIRST! We'll stripmine the other planets later. "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes." Friends help you move. Real friends help you mo
- Tags: club, friday yuk, fun, Honey, humour, husband, off-topic, prisoner, rob mekel
- Discussion threads 2006-10-27
- Video: DJ Spock rockin' the wheels of steel
- Forget Weird Al's "White & Nerdy." Forget the complete works of MC Frontalot or Jonathan Coulton. Forget that so-called "evidence" that Scotty was the real DJ on the USS Enterprise. Nobody is more nerdcore than the son of Sarek. Recognize! by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Wheel, Evidence, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Photos: Racing at 6,786 miles per gallon
- I have to believe......that someday, some very rich person (GATES WAKE UP!) will pull some of these technologies out of the "gee whiz" catagory and start producing some prototypes, market a few to start and then get us OFF the "gas standard". It's not just innovation that moves us forward,...
- Tags: ~Atheria, fuel computers gates ecology economy country, networking, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-06-11
- Will we talk to the next version of Windows like they do in Star Trek?
- Houston we have a problemThis is voice recognition control to user.We have tried to conect you to the server,but due to abnormal weather conditions,our circuits have gone rusty.Please try Linux,or Mac 13.Error....error....error...I can see it now,after many attempts to open My Folders,the blue screen of death,or should that be scream,leaves...
- Tags: Neil Higgins, Microsoft Windows, Star Trek
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Technology auto lock down: Just add alcohol
- I never drink and driveHere in the UK,as everywhere else,I should imagine,the law takes a dim view of being intoxicated whilst not in control of the vehicle.However,I have "typed in " a destination on my Sat Nav,and it has either sent me along the long and winding road,when friends,at my...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Neil Higgins
- Discussion threads 2007-08-11
- Problems downloading Ubuntu Ultimate
- I've made several attempts to download Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.4 the DVD iso file, both as a torrent and straight from a European mirror(i'm based in the UK). When I attempt to download it from a mirror using Download Accelerator Plus it gets to just over 400Mb and stops, when...
- Tags: jcl1984@..., mirror, Ubuntu, Download Accelerator Plus
- Discussion threads 2007-09-15
- 40 years of Star Trek
- Forty years ago the first episode of Star Trek, "The Man Trap", was broadcast at 8:00 PM on NBC (yes, Trivia Geek, I know that it was the sixth episode filmed). Oddly enough I still remember watching it even though I was a few month short of five. ...
- Tags: Star Trek
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- Geek alternatives to Valentines Day
- Stereotypically, geeks are foremost amongst the tragically single on Valentines Day (which is strange, because almost all the geeks I hang out with are married). Thus, for those of you who are seeking out an alternative reason to suffer through February 14, in lieu of seppuku, we offer these seven...
- Tags: Geek, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Cisco Buys WebEx
- Convergence over IPSeems that Cisco keeps searching the complete convergence of services over the IP. I recall when this started, 10 yers ago when SNA was around started for instance RSRB (now evolved to DLSW+) for token ring, I still recall sending RS-232 serial and synchronous ports traffic all over...
- Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Telephony, VOIP, WebEx Communications Inc., ccontrerd@..., IP, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-19
- The Power of the Word
- I have a planA cunning plan."I have a plan so cunning you could brush your teeth with it." Edmund Blackadder Blackadder the Second"Wibble" Edmund Blackadder Blackadder goes Forth"But Rimmer, you ARE a smeghead" Todhunter (The Red Dwarf Series 1- The Beginning)"2X4B is a jerky middle name" ...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Bit - Twiddler, Red Dwarf, Johnny
- Discussion threads 2007-05-20
- Mr. Spock Turns 75
- Leonard Nimoy, Actor / Filmmaker Born: 26 March 1931 Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts Best Known As: Mr. Spock on the original Star TrekNot so old.That's just early middle age for a Vulcan. He was able to play a major role in one story line of TNG precisely because as a hundred-some-odd-year-old...
- Tags: Spock Turns 75, Star Trek
- Discussion threads 2006-03-26
- Space, the final frontier
- Space, the final frontierOk, this is a very serious post. Remember Star Trek with Scotty, Bones, Capt. Kirk and the gang? This post is all about what the best episode was. What geekier thing could one think of other than Star Trek? I personally have many favorites but I think...
- Tags: TNG, Captain Kirk, Star Trek
- Discussion threads 2006-01-28
- Google lets slip talk of online storage
- Where Next?Okay, so from articles I'm reading today, it looks like, in the relatively near future, I'll have a mini-tablet PC Origami project with all of the data stored on Google servers and the applications all accessed through services across the Web via my browser. The OS will pretty...
- Tags: computer, google, Google Inc., Google Let, gsquared, hardware, origami, PC, storage, vista
- Discussion threads 2006-03-08
- Idiot sci-fi question: Why did the starship Enterprise have such a stupid bridge?
- There, I said it, the USS Enterprise all of them in Star Trek all of them had a stupid bridge. It was illogically designed, awkwardly placed, and was a complete backstep from modern thinking and plain old common sense. Here's why:First, some ground rules: The starship Enterprise was a military...
- Tags: Vessel, Bridge, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- My Crystal Ball is Broken
- Back in the days, I would have had difficulty envisioning a good stable graphical interface, even having seen the stuff at PARC and what Apple was doing.I initially thought perhaps DR-DOS and GEM might make a run for it, but saw how the simplicity of Intel based hardware made PCs...
- Tags: computer, day after, hozcanhan@..., linux, microsoft, Microsoft Corp., operating system, server
- Discussion threads 2005-10-30
- This plot is patent-pending
- Okay, I leave town for a few days and you folks let another pox against rational intellectual property law metastasize into the ideasphere: Some idiot wants to patent literary plots. Okay, let's review. The basic premise behind all reasonable intellectual property law is the difference...
- Tags: Patent, Star Trek, Plot, Patent Law, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-11-07
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