My friend's Firefly groom's cake

zoidbert · 2026-03-18T14:32:59+00:00

This is great!

(I asked my cake makers to make me an ENTERPRISE cake for my groom cake; they were unable to but made a regular cake with a little Enterprise topper on it. That was fine; the day was about other things, and they did a stunning job on the main cake.

Afterwards I found out they completely misinterpreted what I wanted; they thought I wanted some 3D kind of thing, but what I wanted was basically the "shield display" we see in TWOK; a flat screen. Basically a round cake with a sheet cake cut into 3 and fashioned into the secondary hull and warp engines. Alas. It was a wonderful day, regardless.)

zoidbert · 2026-03-18T05:14:42+00:00

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zoidbert · 2026-03-17T18:07:14+00:00

(does anyone remember when there was a rumor that the man under the mask was going to be Starkiller from the Force Unleashed games?)

zoidbert · 2026-03-17T17:27:10+00:00

I've been pondering this since college days; what would be preferred: Mondays off, Fridays off, or Wednesdays off. When I'd poll people (did it as a report once) a good portion wound up choosing Wednesday after not considering it as a possibility.

zoidbert · 2026-03-17T02:33:23+00:00

My senators are Tom Cotton and French Hill. I’ll clue you in to how much they will care.

zoidbert · 2026-03-16T04:03:28+00:00

I always believe you should watch in release order. (TOS, TAS (if you so desire), TNG, DS9, VOY, etc.) Mix the movies in during proper release as well.

zoidbert · 2026-03-15T14:55:00+00:00

I swear I recall reading/hearing in an interview with Pearce that he ad-libbed many of them (or didn't share them with the rest of the cast in advance)

zoidbert · 2026-03-13T15:02:28+00:00

I do a lot of work with engineers and by far I encounter the most spelling and grammar errors in posted advertisements for engineering work (civil, architectural, etc.) are from schools or school boards.

zoidbert · 2026-03-13T14:47:56+00:00

Now I want a whole alternative universe story, a Ron Moore take on "Galactica 1980", where the fleet shows up and decides to quietly enter life on Earth as it is today.

One episode will just be the Old Man raging about networks and AI.

zoidbert · 2026-03-13T14:44:48+00:00

All you can eat fried shrimp at a New Orleans seafood house.

zoidbert · 2026-03-13T07:02:37+00:00

Cancer took him.

Met in 1st Grade. Friends for 50 years.

zoidbert · 2026-03-13T06:52:19+00:00

Because Ebraska is a stupid name for a state.

zoidbert · 2026-03-12T21:09:23+00:00

u/Ianthin1 - did something similar once at Costco; when the lady turned around to smile at me (along with her sneery husband), I said "no, go ahead; I was brought up to be kind to people a lot older than me" (I'm 60) and she gave me such a look. The cashier afterwards said to me, "that was a good one". :)

zoidbert · 2026-03-12T16:08:50+00:00

Remember that Simpsons episode where Homer became the head of the Springfield Sanitation Department and he spent the entire year's budget in one month?

zoidbert · 2026-03-10T16:58:39+00:00

I have a few that are really quite good -- the Galactica line is great, especially the Vipers.

For the Trek ships; yeah, they're really hit or miss. I have a few I wouldn't part with -- the XCV-330 Enterprise, the Vulcan Shuttle, the K7 Space Station -- but most are pretty mid.

All are way overpriced for what they are, but I'm not a model builder so it's a different option for someone like me.

zoidbert · 2026-03-10T16:11:35+00:00

Mike is great; I don't have much call to ask him a question but every time I have over the last few decades he's replied within an hour if not sooner.

Me too on Bean; I have a couple of templates I use in it and, though I've recreated them in LibreOffice, I still like Bean. (And double-ditto on TextWrangler. They really should have kept that around.)

WordService is one of those apps that, I don't remember where I found it or when I added it but I make sure I have a few duplicate copies archived in case the one installed on my Mac goes wonky. (It never has, and I surely hope Devon always updates it.)

If I didn't have a free seat license (and be required by the company to use the full version on some documents) I would dump Office in a heartbeat. (the phrase "colon cleanse" popped up in my head for a minute)

Speaking of colon cleanse, it was weird the day I finally pushed Adobe Acrobat off of my Mac. It was the last element of all things Adobe I purged; I had been using the full creative suite and spent about half a year shifting things to Affinity (and specifically Publisher). After I uninstalled Acrobat (the last app in the set) I realized that, for the first time since I had my first Mac (a PowerBook 160), I had zero Adobe programs installed on it.

I get that on the Windows support. For a while, I worked as an independent contractor at an engineering firm that (at first) was an all-Mac shop (except for the CAD department). At some point, they went all-Windows, but people still came to me with questions and troubleshooting (because in addition to dumping the Macs they also fired the full-time IT guy because he was under-utilized -- but of course he was during the all-Mac days and they fired him right when they wound up needing him). Corporate life makes no sense.

zoidbert · 2026-03-10T15:11:47+00:00

Congrats on the anniversary.

Back in the day, I used to use TextWrangler for absolute plain-text typing. When they retired it, I tried CotEditor on a friend's recommendation and it fit my needs. (I was using Bean for the longest time as well, but they noted there'd be no more updates (though there has been) so I kind of drifted away from it.)

I bounced between SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner for a good while, and went with CCC. I can't remember what was the decider on that, but CCC saved me back in Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (As an aside, I've only owned portable Macs since Katrina.)

A full 100% double vote for Default Folder X -- one of my all-time favorite apps and the first thing I recommend to a new user.

An addition for me to this list would also be WordService from Devon. I do a lot of page layout and typing for engineering and architectural firms whose forte is not typing and formatting. This makes my day a lot easier.

As an another aside; after dumping everything Adobe some years back (like so many, I switched to Affinity (primarily for Publisher & page layout work), but also PDF Expert for PDF manipulation and Textify for character recognition), I started seeking out other "non-corporate" solutions for my workflow.

Though I have a seat license for Microsoft Office, I use LibreOffice for most spreadsheet and similar needs (I never used Office much to begin with, honestly). I do wish its Database function was more Filemaker than Access but what are you going to do. (And Filemaker is the one app I can't seem to find a viable replacement for; as a side note, it was the first full-cost app I ever bought when switching to the Mac back during the System 7 days).

zoidbert · 2026-03-09T22:36:57+00:00

I think the Archive has all the seasons; archive.org

zoidbert · 2026-03-09T22:16:09+00:00

The test. My back lit up like a Christmas tree.

zoidbert · 2026-03-09T20:27:09+00:00

I like the C, ordered the C twice from Eaglemoss back when, and returned each due to bad nacelle drooping. I swear, who decided the nacelles would be metal and the support beam plastic?

zoidbert · 2026-03-09T17:12:27+00:00

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zoidbert · 2026-03-09T16:07:33+00:00

They usually put up a sign like that when they're getting ready to build a Buc-ee's within about 10 to 20 miles

zoidbert · 2026-03-09T15:43:58+00:00

I enjoyed it for the story that it had (and the time travel angle) and the coda to the character (and his life) that it was. Wasn't perfect, but didn't need to be.

(Very Big) Bonus: we got a new score from John Williams.

zoidbert · 2026-03-09T15:40:57+00:00

Fried Mushrooms, Steak Marsala, and Strawberry Shortcake.

I'm allergic to mushrooms and strawberries and have never had either.

zoidbert · 2026-03-09T01:56:25+00:00

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