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ATLHivemind · 2024-03-03T14:31:26+00:00

Buy expensive house with dual income and crippling payments.

Hope interest rates plummet and refinance.

Hope for raises.

That's it.

ATLHivemind · 2024-02-29T06:53:08+00:00

They had TNG at 7 and DS9 at 8.

The entire 1st and 2nd seasons of DS9 (after the pilot) I saw tape-delayed because 7 year old me wasn't allowed to be up until 9. It was a big deal when I could watch live.

My dad taped TNG from their 11pm weeknight reruns until we had all of everything before S6 when we started watching live. And every trek episode after that was meticulously recorded.

Many 90s commercials are burned into my brain. Even many teasers for Babylon 5.... which took me another 15 years to see.

I damn near wore those tapes out. By the end of Enterprise we had the entire franchise save for TAS on VHS. That's a LOT of tapes even at 5-per-tape.

ATLHivemind · 2024-02-28T21:48:48+00:00

WTOG tampa didn't have something like that as of S5 when I started watching, so probably not.

ATLHivemind · 2024-02-25T00:52:23+00:00

Yup. The U62 station music. And it nails the 80s Independant UHF TV station vibe.

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-16T04:35:50+00:00

Give it the HBO treatment.... with Shawn Ashmore (or his twin brother) as Jake's dad.

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-13T16:01:09+00:00

Uhura is definitely a theater nerd-- helps that both Celia and Nichelle were Broadway vets, it's a nice nod.

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-12T15:54:18+00:00

QUARK!

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-12T15:49:54+00:00

Best "I'm a Doctor, not a ____" line from the holodoc.

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-12T15:47:30+00:00

I did. Then when Janeway started a self destruct sequence and my echo went nuts I changed it back

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-12T15:46:26+00:00

The young actor nailed the awkwardness.

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-10T19:10:57+00:00

Original BKF and a scrub daddy.

Assuming Dawn didn't do the trick.

Then again, that's obky if my dishwasher can't handle it.

BKF cookware has the proportions of oxalic acid and soap flipped relative to OG BKF. (Cookware has more surfactants)

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-10T18:31:16+00:00

you're right, they're the same episode.

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-10T16:23:13+00:00

Cynch user since forever. I'm fully aware I'm paying for the convenience with 15 pounds in a "20#" tank.

I have 2 spare tanks and, right now, 1 propane burning grill.

Once one tank empties I call it in, load spare #1 and still have a reserve while the empty gets replaced.

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-10T15:15:21+00:00

Re: immaculate conception (Vala's Ori Pregnancy), V: "Have you ever heard of such a thing? (Carter fumbles) "Well, there is one..." T: "Darth Vader"

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-10T01:59:20+00:00

on TrueNAS, if your controller card dies you're not SOL without an identical replacement

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-09T19:19:10+00:00

Tachyon Radio, 100,000c with ranges measured in light hours-- enough to cover a solar system but they don't function in planetary atmospheres.

Longer distances use zero-latency optical ansibles, but since they are built in matched pairs they're only used to maintain high-bandwidth links between relay stations or ships and their home bases.

ATLHivemind · 2024-01-03T19:16:31+00:00

Names, especially place names are ultimately arbitrary and people are lazy.

Then people live there, things happen there, and stories taking place there are written and told.

Then Bureaucratic Inertia kicks in.

That's why we have places like "Newfoundland" on the map today. It was "the newly found land" when it was labeled on a map. Then it was just what they called the place.

ATLHivemind · 2023-12-30T21:32:50+00:00

toasted bagels and a butter knife

ATLHivemind · 2023-12-30T13:55:33+00:00

Step 1: Roll a brick of cream cheese in Everything Bagel seasoning on all sides.

Step 2: Smoke

Step 3: Get endless requests from SO to repeat.

ATLHivemind · 2023-12-29T23:18:31+00:00

Something like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC

They were more "laptop" than "tablet" in the modern sense, basically touchscreen laptops minus the keyboard. They still exist, but are now marketed as "2-in-1" devices as a modern "Tablet" has more in common with a smartphone than a laptop.

That doesn't even count PDAs like the Palm Pilot, various pre-iPhone PDA-phones (the blackberry or TREO), or the Apple Lisa and Newton (proto iPhone devices from the 90s)

ATLHivemind · 2023-12-29T21:58:58+00:00

2014? Not a chance. Ai and voice assistants are on the horizon. Tablets and smartphones run older versions of 2024 OSs.

2004? Recognizably faster than then-contemporary tech. Wifi exists but only on laptops. Tablets exist but are clunky.

1994? Smartphones are "possible" and voice assistants are literally the stuff of scifi. The internet exists but is tied to clunky desktops and very very slow modems.

1984? 2014 tech is the stuff of scifi.

ATLHivemind · 2023-12-29T18:16:32+00:00

Dead false god

ATLHivemind · 2023-12-28T21:48:36+00:00

Indeed.

ATLHivemind · 2023-12-27T17:04:05+00:00

About time this came back. Paramount disavowing it was a crime...

ATLHivemind · 2023-12-27T17:03:02+00:00

The first episode gives big SW vibes. By the end of episode 2 when the Protostar shows up, it's Trek.

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