KenJennings

I don't really care what the economic impact would be, we'd all be better off if Facebook had just never come back online.

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Double post.

There's a bit on "Me Doing Stand Up", and it's not in every version of the recording, where he's talking about drawing the blinds in his bedroom. And he's saying how you only draw the blinds when you're about to do something shameful. You'd never draw the blinds when you're baking a pie for the old lady down the street. She doesn't do much baking for herself anymore, why she's got arthritis in her hands and has lost the ability to kneed. Those tangential little comments. Good Lord, I'm going to miss those. I've been thinking about why this loss hurts so much. When someone dies that's older or even just washed up, you feel sad, but you can accept it because they didn't really have anything left to say. You could close the book knowing the story had been written to completion. I don't feel that way here. I still need Norm, I could use his perspective, I still find a lot of utility in the way he thinks and communicates. There just isn't another source of that, and the demand isn't sated. I feel a greedy sense of loss. I just wasn't ready to close this book. But I'm so thankful to have read what I got.

I've had a link to this video in my signature for many years. It is my favorite joke of all time, and probably always will be.

Ten years ago I would've said Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger. But I fear that has slipped from Classic Rock to Oldies. Which is weird, because it's not even THAT old. I just feel like it played to an older sound than a lot of other songs in that era. So now, I think I'd go with a song that's just two years newer with Don't Stop Believing by Journey. It's definitely overplayed, but almost universally one that people sing along to. It's got the easy to digest four chords of pop rock, and vocals that just pull you in as a wannabe participant. It's bright, uplifting and energetic- and I think it best defines today's view of classic rock.

That will happen when you have nothing to really apologize for.

Crush him with a boulder! lol

Richards is a fantastic choice. The smear campaign going on against him is despicable, and people should be ashamed for parroting it without actually looking into the facts. (Richards literally did nothing wrong, and the court dismissed all of the accusations against him.) And there's also the nonsense notion that he "hired himself", when it's been clear that this is Sony picture's decision. He won the job by being a great choice. Lose the politics and get over the fact that it's not your guy.

Thanks everyone! I appreciate the well wishes!

And on this Captain Picard Day, we get a teaser for Picard Season 2.

There's a lot of Star Trek out there right now, and we've got a half dozen threads about different aspects of it; so I hope this thread can be a one stop shop for news and reactions to all of it.

I haven't had a chance to give it a proper listen yet, but from what I've heard, it didn't grab me. I loved Terrestrial, which sounded just like something from their awesome "Others" EP; but most of the rest has had a more melancholy, more grey sound than I've come to expect from Frost. I could be way wrong about this if I give it another listen... but I was hoping to hear notes more in line with the direction Frost was going with the high energy and vibrant colors of "Others", and was a bit disappointed it's not quite that.

There was a low budget sci-fi show that ran for a few years on UPN around 2000 called Seven Days that surrounded a secret government project that could send one man back in time seven days to prevent disasters. Norman Lloyd was one of the main cast members, Dr. Mentnor, who was the head of the science behind the project. I used to really enjoy that show when I was a kid; and was recently shocked to hear that he was still around. Sad now to hear that he's passed- but what a hell of a life he lived. "Dream not of today, Mister Picard."

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This one makes me laugh. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YaDI5EAxbNA "Carl, what's you done?!"

Rescue breaths are still taught in my CPR recertification courses: I've been told that the only reason they ever introduced the 'hands-only' method is because a lot of people were too squeamish to do rescue breaths, so they wanted to make it clear that compressions alone are still much better than nothing- if that's all you're comfortable doing. Rescue breaths do still increase survival odds.

The pessimism about Star Trek is really unfounded. The Kelvin movies aged pretty well, and knowing they're just a side project for the franchise, I can find them enjoyable. Though Into Darkness was awful, Beyond was a legitimate treat. I'd like to see the new movie put a proper bow on the Kelvin timeline. Discovery started off terrible, but continues to consistently improve. It's become almost watchable with season 3, and only looks to be getting better. Picard was a terrific follow up to Nemesis, and I'm ecstatic to see where they take it with Q in season 2. I love seeing Picard back in action, and I love the new characters. Can't wait for more. Lower Decks is a brilliant love letter to the franchise with a ton of great jokes for die hard fans. Strange New Worlds has a lot of potential and a killer cast lined up. Seriously, Anson Mount is the perfect Captain Pike... And the section 31 show could go a lot of different great directions. I hope to God it's a Romulan war show with some Enterprise callbacks. For its ups and downs, modern Trek has turned out more good than bad, and it's only becoming increasingly good. I'm pumped for more.

One of the most quotable lines ever, "Here's some money, go see a Star War."

I never watched this show. But I like Neal Morse a lot.

Season four of Enterprise would like a word. I wouldn't mind CBS All Access Paramount+ finding away to tell a 90 minute Enterprise story. I think there's a possibility that mirror Georgiou's section-31 show ends up in the Romulan War era shortly after Enterprise. That would give them a chance to retcon the awful ending Enterprise got, and give a little more attention back to that seriously underrated era of Trek.

Season four of Enterprise would like a word.

I don't know... I just didn't hate it. I know the science was wobbly, I know they kept dipping into CWesq plot devices. But they tried, and I can feel that. I haven't felt that from the first two seasons of Discovery. They really tried to get this one right, and that made it feel like Star Trek- even for all its flaws. I'm not sure what that means. I can't really quantify it. But the hollow, cold feeling Discovery gave me in the past is dissolving; and this ride was much more satisfying. A few things... I felt like there was an opportunity to tie Su'kal and his relationship to the Burn back to the "thought-is-space-is-time" phenomena that was explored in TNG with the traveler and Wesley. A few callbacks to that, or maybe even a stray mention of Tau Alpha C would've pulled the fantastical into the familiar just a bit, while reminding everyone that even TNG did wobbly science! I loved the pacing in the finale. It neither felt rushed or dragged out. Maybe the action scenes went a bit too long for my taste, but only a little. It was a finale, a big setpiece for the series. I can forgive it, because it wasn't enough to affect the overall pacing of the episode. I hate those gigantic 'ship-innard' turbolift sets. This was a kelvin-verse invention that I regret has carried over into Discovery. I prefer to think of Starfleet ships as dense and thicc. Not just full of negative space and bottomless Star Wars-esq pits. I also really dislike that Zareh ended up getting bested by Book, instead of Tilly. I would've liked her to outmaneuver his duplicitous ass after the way he treated her. The scenes with Su'kal and Saru felt nice. Warm, fuzzy, etc... Doug Jones wears that role very well. Overall 7 out of 10 for the season. I'm happy to get more. And for the first time, in my opinion, Discovery was Star Trek.

The guardian forever reveal was slightly predictable, but in the best of ways. I'm glad they went back to canon, rather than just having it be some odd entity. And I'm glad it wasn't a Q. I loved that after the years that have passed, and the wars he proclaimed to be involved in, the Guardian has evolved and grown a 'personality' of sorts. The handling of all that was exceptional, and I really enjoyed the throwback. Ultimately, this was a good way to deal with the Georgiou problem. We know she's going to end up working with Section 31 and getting her own show, but the 31st century wasn't going to work as that setting. She grew a lot as a character in these two episodes, and I only wish we'd seen more growth from her before them; but I'm excited to see where she comes out... perhaps she arrives at DS9 around year 2400 to pick up the pieces of S31 after Sloan's death... the Bajoran wormhole always created a close proximity between the universes after all.