GoodbyeBlueMonday

@GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*So far*⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never used one myself, but apparently lightly spinning them helps the honey not drip because it’s so viscous. Stop spinning it and it can be drizzled.

  Had to search online because I never understood why one would not just use a spoon either, but if it means there’s not as many little honey trails on the edge of the container, I can see the point. Learned something new today!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can they murder people on their property? Or is there some limit to their ability to make rules?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate you taking the time to say that! Thank you. My favorite song by him is probably Desperados Under the Eaves, if you’d ever like to hear the best of his music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of what Warren Zevon had to say about rich people problems, off Preludes. It came out a few years after his death, and the back half of the album has snippets from some radio interview(s?) he did. Neat musings by a complex dude: he was creative genius in a lot of ways, and a titanic asshole in a lot of other ways (he asked his ex-wife to write his biography, and to not go easy on him - alcoholism, violence, absentee parenting…it’s all there).

  Anyway, that’s a preface for the folks who don’t know about him: he probably could have been a bigger financial success had he not been a disaster of a human, but maybe his dirty life and times gave him enough material to feed his creativity…who knows.

  WZ: I was real lucky, because I always had some kind of work that came along - at the last minute, anyway. I was always able to make some kind of living as a musician I also never really got rich, and that might have been lucky too, ya know?

  Interviewer: in what way?

  WZ: Well, because the less time you spend with the issues of being rich they’re like the issues of being famous they’re not real issues so they’re not real life.

  Interviewer: And it leaves more time to be creative?

  WZ: There’s more of an exchange - a human exchange of ideas and feelings to be had on the bus stop than over the phone with your accountant, and if you’re rich you spend a lot of time on the phone with your accountant. it’s necessary, I believe. I know I’m happy and that means I must be lucky. That I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨patience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, if you bailed after driving the hovercraft, maybe you didn’t get to Black Mesa East, or Ravenholm? IMHO that’s where things really ramp up: story-wise (you meet more allies), and you get a better glimpse at the endgame. You get a neat tool to use (which also was mind-blowing in 2004, less so almost twenty years later), too.

  If you don’t dig it though, I wouldn’t force it. I’m a fan of science fiction more than fantasy, so I’ve never finished a Dishonored game, but I love Prey. Just doesn’t hook me the way I know it could…just not my particular vibe I guess, which I think is OK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Identifying Cat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They would have had the money and time for the CGI if they didn’t spend so much in footage for all of Morn’s damn monologues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cope⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I struggle to find what to say, because I’m just some random schmuck on the internet. Plenty of people post vile comments, so I’m going to post a saccharine one, in honor of your friend.

  Others have said it already, but I’ll say it again because why not: your voice online has been a pleasure.

  Grief is terrible, and I’m sorry you lost a loved one. I’m lucky enough to have a friend like the one you describe. We’re a big part of each others’ support system, and a lot of what we talk about winds up being Trek. I say that only to let you know that your grief will help me remember why I should cherish my friend, while we’re both around. Maybe that doesn’t do you any good, hopefully it doesn’t come across as selfish/insensitive on my part (if so, you have my apology in advance), but maybe it’s some consolation that you and your buddy are inspiring others who have never even met you. We all have an effect on people’s lives, whether we know when it happens or not. Just being some kind of role model, even in a small way, will influence people for the better. That’s my hope, anyway. So you and your buddy have clearly been doing this for a lot of us, here. I’m sure elsewhere. You don’t owe any of us anything, but I know seeing your positivity makes me smile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take "Dyson sphere-level douchebags for 300"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta say though, I wouldn’t mind the unceremonious death of Jadzia if it wasn’t wrapped up in the sexist contract disputes, because the character is the perfect one to kill off, because she was (in a sense) only mostly dead! Imagine if we had gotten the chance to see Ezri talk to Jadzia, like we saw Jadzia talk to former hosts.

  The two of them could work through the complications of living on the same station as Jadzia’s husband, how her death wasn’t some honorable warrior’s death like Jadzia (and Curzon) would have dreamed about, and how Ezria wasn’t ready for the responsibility of being a host. There’s a lot of really interesting stuff writers could play with there, and I think Adira and Gray in Discovery have showed there’s some nice storytelling potential there (the same kind of additions to canon could have happened with Ezri and Jadzia, in terms of a traumatic host transfer causing unexpected bonds between the hosts’ memories).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the American people of the Federation, today is voting day.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Precisely. I voted today and it took a few minutes of my time. There was still plenty of time in the morning to keep working on the things I think will make more of an impact re: improving things somewhat. Mutual aid and anything else in the bucket of “resisting tyrannical government” is much easier when it’s only +1 more evil rather than +10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I? Who knows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a great They Might Be Giants song about exactly this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSbEOZY7k20

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

  ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt