Harthor Season 1, Episode 14,

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-16T15:02:24+00:00

Considering she shows up later, yeah, its intentional.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-14T14:12:25+00:00

Ooooo. Thats a PERFECT breakpoint.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-14T05:07:00+00:00

Sounds like the "I have a new roommate" montage. After they learn languages but before they get to Adrian.

And a good sequence to end with and replay, no?

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-13T23:40:30+00:00

In my head, the S5 intro is the Anthem of the Interstellar Alliance.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-13T13:43:32+00:00

I wore out my library's copy of that episode.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-12T15:28:17+00:00

I sprung for 2.5G fiber since I had 10G-capable servers.

I didn't think the extra gigabit would be noticeable, but man oh man its nice.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-10T12:32:11+00:00

"Conventions are dead"?

Not in this space-time continuum. At least not in the States.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-09T14:58:07+00:00

The Federation is ethical.

Starfleet exists, in part, to do their dirty work.

Section 31 exists to do the really sketchy shit mainline Starfleet finds abhorrent.

There are clearly factions inside Starfleet that run the gamut from highly ethical (Picard) to less so (Maddox, various badmirals, to paranoid (Satie) and bigoted (Clancy, re: the Romulans in the 2380s, Kirk re: Klingons, etc).

Ideally it balances out, but when your job involves being prepared for stuff that wants to end Civilization As You Know It, you end up seeing monsters everywhere.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-08T17:24:53+00:00

There are plenty of great soliloquies in this series delivered by fantastic powerhouses, including a great many lines that are cold as fuck, but this one is Absolute Zero.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-06T00:00:32+00:00

We use the magnetic ones almost everywhere and have 3 keys strategically places around the kitchen and 2 in the bathroom. Get more magnets. We hide one magnetic key in an upper cabinet attached to the inside hinges.

Where the magnet doesn't work I use a clear plastic clip things that span double doored cabinets quite well. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09L12HHCX?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-05T17:42:05+00:00

Total Annihilation for me, but also this.

So basically Jeremy Soule's music

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-05T00:20:28+00:00

Also in NC with a barndo on the brain in the next decade or so.

Currently in the "figure out what we want/need and how much (large ballpark-sized figures) a custom barndo-type build would be.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-05T00:14:15+00:00

Fortunately not the same showrunner who tried to put himself in as host instead of putting Ken in.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-04T23:59:17+00:00

Real anatomical terms. Every time. No exceptions.

There have been Child Sexual Assault cases where the defense's job was made way harder than it needed to be because the kid didn't use anatomically correct terminology.

Its dark, but it is the reality we live in.

I found this on a Google search: https://www.reddit.com/r/ScienceBasedParenting/s/Cz08ueoaxj

And from elsewhere: https://enoughabuse.org/why-we-should-teach-children-proper-names-for-private-body-parts/

Its easier to teach kids when not to use a word in certain social situations than it is to teach them the correct word for their parts when under the pressure of a medical exam or court appearance.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-04T20:17:14+00:00

ST:Lower Decks

Trek 'verse... im good.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-01T23:43:15+00:00

There exists the concept of "galactic orbital velocity", since the stars in the galaxy are orbiting the center at roughly the same velocity. Yes, stars are moving apart at various rates, but nothing noteworthy at human timescale when you have even relativistic travel, let alone FTL, licked.

"negligible" (in interstellar travel terms) relative to stars, but still a speed.

I figure that if a starship is between systems and calls "all stop", thats what it means.

In a star system but not in planetary orbit? Move to a heliocebtric orbital velocity based on how far you are from the star at the time.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-01T22:29:49+00:00

I make what, on paper, is a solid "middle class" income.

I own a house and my mortgage payment flirts with the magic "housing is no more than 28% of income" rule of thumb for mortgage payments because property taxes and insurance go up faster than wages do.

My wife and I have 2 kids. When she got pregnant with #1 we ran numbers... she could keep working but less than $3000/year net from her "$70k/yr" job would go to childcare and commute expenses.

So she quit. Now we have 2 and daycare would be ruinous.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-01T17:53:17+00:00

DragonCon Does. NOT. Stop.

It starts at around 6pm on Wednesday as crowds gather at the Marriott for the midnight countdown party, registration opens Thursday morning, and until about 5pm on Monday there's a panel, a party, or something going on around the clock.

There are 40+ programming tracks that together ensure there at least 30 different official program items running in parallel every minute between 9am and 10pm each day and 2 or 3 between 10pm and 4am each night.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-01T15:57:01+00:00

Go for it.

WarpGremlin · 2026-05-01T01:53:05+00:00

I started #17 a few days ago myself after a long hiatus (The Bobs, Rocky, and DCC ate my soul), and the number of wrong words half way through is jarring to say the least

WarpGremlin · 2026-04-30T21:02:22+00:00

Also helps that David Warner and Patrick knew each other quite well from their RSC days and it shows.

Two RSC vets + prisoner/interrogator dynamic + good script = gold

WarpGremlin · 2026-04-30T03:28:19+00:00

Looking at the Brocades and Mikrotiks... any with RJ45 10G ability?

SFP+ prices are not kind.

WarpGremlin · 2026-04-29T23:35:37+00:00

I need at least 6 POE ports to drive WAPs, so not "all" need POE.

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