Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

So after the Fdisk->Format->Reinstall of Linux Mint, my copy for Gourmand/Gourmet Recipe Manager broke. It still opens, but I can't calculate nutritional info which I need for my diabetes. I'd also rather not switch over to Windows 11 just to calculate my nutritional information, so....

I want a Post Alley Pizza Coney Island Hot Dog slice right about now.

I like to visit the Centro Stontro Storico in the Municipinicipio.

So my pulmonologist cancelled on me for Friday, which means my day opened up. I still need to buy groceries for next week as well as a Sunday dinner for the girls.

Maybe I'll grab a ribeye, and grill it up for dinner tomorrow instead of the food I was gonna get in town....

I kinda want to do something with the Star Trek: The Motion Picture script stuff I've done over the years. There's been some mutterings that People Want To Do Things With It, and I'd love to do it. But at the same time, I kind of am thinking of doing my own thing if that doesn't pan out.

nstead of dwelling on the Script War, or the reasons for all the rewrites, we really dive into the differences and how they change the tone of the story? There wouldn't be much in the way of interviewing the writers, as all three of the main writers have since passed (Gene Roddenberry, Harold Livingston, Dennis Clark). Do you think there'd be interest in a book about the different versions of the movie, ala "The Lost Worlds of 2001?"

Imagine an entire chapter of a prose version of Kirk trying to talk McCoy into re-upping with Starfleet as McCoy bandages a kid's pet cheetah, or Decker pulling a phaser on Spock and McCoy and forcing the V'Ger meld?

It'd be something to fall back on if The People Who Want To Do Things With It cant do things with it....

My life has become very Boob-Centric since I transitioned over twenty years ago. I got the imagery from my mammogram last Monday. You wouldn't think that would move me to tears, but it does.

Picard Episode 1 OVER.

I'm really getting the feeling that this is the Trek version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. After multiple Legend of Zelda games that were ostensibly aimed at kids, and tweens, suddenly we get the much more mature and refined Twilight Princess. "Zelda All Grown Up."

That's what I'm feeling here: "Star Trek - The Next Generation - Twilight Princess."

Looking forward to more. Also: More Orla Brady please. :)

(Also, wasn't there this threat from a transwarp conduit at the end of Season 2 we had to deal with?)

Nice to know Eaglemoss came back and started making miniatures again in the 25th Century. That and Micro Machines are still around. That Jerry Goldsmith inspired music, too. They went all out on the nostalgia on this. :)

Well. Let's dig in, shall we?

Best Saturday Night Live movie?

Mine: The Blues Brothers.

Yours?

Thoughts Before Bed

"Some cause must have created all this; but what CAUSED that cause?"

Radio New Zealand coming in strong enough to sound like it's next door. They're talking about the effects of typhoon flooding on farms from the typhoon that just hit there.

+100 for using the Super Mario Bros. Super Show theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzuUOqABGf0

So I decided on installing a new shortwave reciever for Linux now that my laptop has it, and GQRX seems to be the best one. Plugged it in, couldn't get it to work for the life of me, then suddenly, pop,. started working.

Oh, man, this works so much better than SDR Sharp. I can actually HEAR things with this. Apparently it has a better static filter, and suddenly I'm hearing stuff left and right. IT's the same stuff as before - but at the same time - it's LEGIBLE now. I don't just see the frequency, I can hear them as more than a Charlie Brown adult "Wwa waaaa waaaa" sound.

Okay, so are the whole 2020s gonna be like this, cause if so, I'd like to return this purchase.

Happy Valentines Day