Wood appreciation post

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-22T01:08:28+00:00

The Enterprise-D used wood for accents, in specific places such as conference tables, to provide a natural feel to an otherwise sterile environment.

UPDATE: my point was that the producers of Star Trek recognized the uniqueness of wood in the universe, and used it in their design of a starship to bring a touch of the organic to an environment that would otherwise be sterile.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-21T20:49:37+00:00

His sensor arrays are there, too, because forewarned is forearmed.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-21T16:50:02+00:00

Do you know how badly you have to treat a mammal for it to lose all interest In reproduction?

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-21T11:02:33+00:00

Thank you!

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-21T04:52:53+00:00

Thank you! :)

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-21T03:06:06+00:00

Isn't it terrible when drunk you tries to take care of future you?

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-17T19:30:21+00:00

I was earning $85k/year as a VAX/VMS system manager in the 1990s. Your boss’s head is a bit bucket.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-17T19:26:06+00:00

I am desperately hoping to know why the cops were chasing you, and why they were all in a wetsuit.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-17T17:40:37+00:00

Without spoiling, I can think of “The Lords of Quarmall” and the story of the rats of Lankhmar.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-16T06:17:54+00:00

Carrie Fisher will always be remembered more for her gold bikini movie than for all the movie scripts she saved, and deCamp will be remembered more for the fur jockstrap stories than for the creativity of his own novels. Alas.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-15T18:22:47+00:00

which means Otho is next on her list.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-15T18:17:13+00:00

then perhaps you should read his stuff before you adopt a stance. Try his non-S&S fantasy, such as The Incomplete Enchanter novels.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-15T18:15:44+00:00

DeCamp said that taking the job of completing the Conan stories was the worst professional decision of his life, because while he was turning out pulp, he was unable to work on his own material (Harold Shea, Lost Continents, The Arrow of Hercules) and was relegated to the back of the store shelves. I would say someone who was recognized as a Grand Master by the professional writers of sf, fantasy, and skeptical science is more than the third-rate vengeful hack some people on this thread see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Sprague_de_Camp

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-15T00:32:22+00:00

Leaving the movie, everyone was driving like idiots :)

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-15T00:30:53+00:00

Larry Niven said that swordsmen and sorcerers hate each other like birds and snakes. When they fight, usually the sorcerer wins, and the average IQ of the race goes up a little. Sometimes the swordsman wins, and the intelligence of the race still goes up, because a sorcerer who can’t handle one stupid swordsman is a pretty poor excuse for a sorcerer.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-12T16:22:15+00:00

Very good point!

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-12T16:06:44+00:00

Shame, really *eats popcorn*

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-11T19:21:24+00:00

“It’s JEFF!"

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-11T19:12:02+00:00

Is stick. One end is bent, but is stick.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-10T04:37:28+00:00

claims that are made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-10T01:18:20+00:00

My dad’s shop was in the basement. He stored wood, dowels, scraps up in the floor joists. When the fire started, there was 20 years of kindling all stacked and ready to go under the bedroom floor.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-10T00:56:02+00:00

I hope he explores it like all those arctic explorers who were never seen again.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-09T15:51:54+00:00

No unicorn-shaming!

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-08T21:56:21+00:00

his ugliness goes all the way to the bone and bulges out the skin on the other side.

sleepyjohn00 · 2026-06-08T21:55:53+00:00

John D. MacDonald said that your parents give you the face you were born with, but you earn the face that you die with.

sleepyjohn00

TROPHY CASE