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[Nate the Great]

Peter Tork of the Monkees died today.


While I like a few Monkees songs, I remember him most from the pseudo-Monkees reunion on Boy Meets World.

[Nate the Great]

EC Henry discusses the varying colors of Federation phasers.


I never noticed how much the colors changed! You'd think this could be standardized easily. My first guess is that this variation comes from a similar place as greenscreens and bluescreens. That is, depending on the background that the phaser beam has to be superimposed upon, certain colors work better for the superimposing process or to provide contrast with the background.



P.S. I never noticed that in The Best of Both Worlds the modulating phasers made such different colors.

[Nate the Great]

In honor of today's "The Savage Curtain" post, I'd like to repost Melodysheep's Spock tribute, since it includes a powerful line from the episode.

[Nate the Great]

Someone built a Starship Enterprise model that can fly around underwater as though it's space.

[Nate the Great]

I'm not sure if I ever schilled James Lileks before. Long story short, he's a journalist from my homeland of Minnesota who covers lots of ephemera from Minnesota and beyond, including a lot of midcentury pop culture.



But the point of this post is his entry for today, a page from a 1986 Sears catalog. Lots of solid-color shirts and sweatshirts. "Not just for Yangs, but for Coms, too! If you get that reference, congrats." I got the reference, that's for sure. Of course, "The Omega Glory" features Yangs and Kohms and they didn't wear pastel clothing, that was more of a TNG-era colonist thing. I know it's not an exact match, but the first thing that came to mind was Kevin Uxbridge.

[Nate the Great]

Matthias Wandel strikes again! His space heater isn't powerful enough to heat the whole room, so he sets up a camera to detect when he moves and a computer to rotate the heater to point at wherever he is.


The commenters had fun with the gag where he's about to buy a Lazy Susan, but decides to just build one instead. Matthias isn't the kind of guy that would ever buy something that he could make, especially if you can do it with just wood and skateboard bearings.

[Wowbagger]

Originally Posted by Nate the Great

I'm not sure if I ever schilled James Lileks before. Long story short, he's a journalist from my homeland of Minnesota who covers lots of ephemera from Minnesota and beyond, including a lot of midcentury pop culture.

Greetings, fellow Minnesotan!

Lileks is great. And he's not one of those journalists who saw all of TOS 15 times in 1973 and then stopped. He watched and very correctly adored Enterprise, despite his incorrect, Zeke-like opinions about the finale. And he's watching Discovery. Dude's the real deal.

[Nate the Great]

Mathologer shows us how to use parabolic dishes to project holograms.



Not really, but it's still a cool optical trick.