Embarkation

Village People– IN THE NAVY OFFICIAL Music Video 1979 HD

youtu.be/nmGuy0jievs

Akade Wear

Star Trek Deanna Troi Swim Shirt

We’ve reproduced the look of Deanna Troi’s lavender jumpsuit from 2nd and 3rd seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation with this swim shirt. The embroidered combadge is stitched on, and it features flatlock princess seams to fit a female’s body.

Sweepy Batman

BLACK HOLE SUN – Break of Reality OFFICIAL VIDEO

Man of Steel review

A young boy learns he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, when the world is threatened, he must emerge as a hero and the symbol of hope for all mankind.

I’ve grown to love this movie, but man it has problems:

• Penis ships that take Zod and his crew to the Phantom Zone.  That had to be intentional, right?
• Pa kent dies in a tornado? wtf
• That nightmare skull scene though
• Hundreds of thousands killed in Metropolis assault, whoops
• Superman kills? wtf
• Lois meeting “Clark Kent” for the first time was humorous.
• The sound track is fuck balls amazing

Kendra Sunderland looking cute

FX’s Legion Where We Left Off

Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides

The embattled EPA chief used an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.

Vint Cerf in black and white

Major changes to the “On This Day” page

The “On This Day” page use to pull in a manually written loop of each year the site’s been around, which had a few problems:

1. remembering to manually update that loop every year was difficult for me.
2. it was showing only the featured image and not all the attachments, so you were missing out on some quality images if you didn’t click through
3. the images were all squished into a same sized 145 pixel box which looked like utter shit.
4. as of 2018 there were 260 images loading on every page load, that’s a huge resource hog!

I’ve fixed this by making it a dynamic loop of all the years for the posts, showing all the attachments and using some js magic to get the images to make a beautiful wall of images, then using that dynamic loop to spit out just the year you’ve selected to the page instead of all 200+ images at once.

This does a couple cool things, most notably makes it all dynamic so I don’t have to touch this again when 2019 comes through and make it look cool as fuck when you resize the window.  It also takes a significant bit of load from the server.

Speaking of the server, it should be much peppier now that I’ve increased some memory pools to be 10gigs and not 1 gig.  I’m going to monitor and see if I can increase it to 20 gigs, but I want to be sure that everything is stable before I start blowing up the memory like that.

And finally speaking of blowing things up, the related images have returned!  Let’s see if I can keep them around for longer than a week this time!

NOAA just prevented SpaceX from showing its rocket in orbit

“SpaceX will be intentionally ending live video coverage of the 2nd stage.”

Not even the younglings survived

How to make Mayonnaise with an immersion blender

Your Opinions Are SHIT They’re fucking SHIT

Ex-Obama official: Picking White House physician to run VA is ‘like having your Uber driver park the space shuttle’

Former President Obama’s deputy chief of staff Jim Messina on Friday compared this week’s announcement of the White House physician getting tapped as the new secretary of Veterans Affairs to “having your Uber driver park the space shuttle”

discussing Steaks

From Mueller to Stormy to emoluments, Trump’s business is under siege

President’s decision to retain his holdings in office brings mounting scrutiny upon company.

This cat looks like a cinnamon roll

‘The Outpost’: Fantasy-Adventure Series From ‘Stargate’ Duo Lands At the CW For Summer Run

The CW is expanding its summer programming slate with the acquisition of The Outpost, a 10-hour fantasy-adventure series from Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment and Arrowstorm Entertainment’

I hate gingers

After 73 Years of Marriage, This Canadian Couple Chose to Die on Their Own Terms

This is a beautiful story about death.

Sarah in a Sun hat

Former Cult Spokesperson Expects’ Smallville’s’ Allison Mack to Be Arrested Soon

The story about Smallville star Allison Mack allegedly recruiting for a sex slave cult (which allegedly held women as sex slaves and branded them, explore background here) takes on new myelinizating algebramagical dimensions of crazy:

Demi will punch you

Welcome Home Star Wars

weird tales of the future jan feb 1953

The Princess – by Brian Rood

Pink Building

The Misfits movie poster but in Italian

Gina Lollobrigida is golden

“Island of the Fishmen” family unit

Amelia Earhart hugging a prop

doctor octopus fan art

Chet Faker – No Diggity Live Sessions

shepard fairey – hope

StarTrekcom Gives A Glimpse at Upcoming Incredibuilds

StarTrek.com has a brief blurb on the Original Series version of the Incredibuilds USS Enterprise model kit that are due to be released in June:

Ready to build your very own U.S.S. Enterprises? You’ll get your chance this summer, when Insight Editions releases IncrediBuilds: Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise Book and 3D Wood Model and IncrediBuilds: Star Trek: The Next Generation: U.S.S. Enterprise Book and 3D Wood Model, two separate books that feature Star Trek wood model kits (1701 and 1701-D) and full-color books with facts and trivia about two of the most-iconic starships in history, real or sci-fi. And, they’re written by Dayton Ward, the prolific author whose Trek work includes the recent novel, Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures.

from www.startrekbookclub.com/4734/startrek-com-gives-a-glimpse-at-upcoming-incredibuilds/

blazing saddles movie poster

Florida wants a time zone to itself for half the year

The state has signed a bill to observe daylight savings year round.

As if my life wasn’t already fucked up twice a year when our servers get some kind of mismatched time setting.

capri anderson in a tight black dress

How Progressives Should Think About Russia

America’s security depends on defeating oligarchy abroad and at home.

Toronto Chef Butchers Deer Eats Steak In Front Of Vegan Protesters

www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wj7jeb/toronto-chef-butchers-deer-eats-steak-in-front-of-vegan-protesters

Meanwhile in Canada…

www.vice.com/en_ca/article/wj7jeb/toronto-chef-butchers-deer-eats-steak-in-front-of-vegan-protesters

Oof Boof

pt. II

god did not like your cars

God’s Not Dead 3 Was a Box Office Disaster

Even Christians seem tired of the exaggerated stereotypes.

God’s STILL Dead?

TORONADO

Now that april fool’s is over

Star Trek Discovery Drastic Measures review

An original novel based upon the explosive new Star Trek TV series on CBS All Access!

It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it home. Distress signals have been sent, but any meaningful assistance is weeks away. Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Lorca and a small team assigned to a Starfleet monitoring outpost are caught up in the escalating crisis, and bear witness as the colony’s governor, Adrian Kodos, employs an unimaginable solution in order to prevent mass starvation.
While awaiting transfer to her next assignment, Commander Philippa Georgiou is tasked with leading to Tarsus IV a small, hastily assembled group of first responders. It’s hoped this advance party can help stabilize the situation until more aid arrives, but Georgiou and her team discover that they‘re too late—Governor Kodos has already implemented his heinous strategy for extending the colony’s besieged food stores and safeguarding the community’s long-term survival.

In the midst of their rescue mission, Georgiou and Lorca must now hunt for the architect of this horrific tragedy and the man whom history will one day brand “Kodos the Executioner”….

A fun and interesting read is what I had hoped for, after all the first Discovery book was pretty fun and interesting. I did not find this book to be fun, nor interesting, I found it to be more of a bland story by checklist:

• Something bad happens.
• Villain runs away.
• Good guys show up.
• Aside from a couple explosions, there’s no confrontation with the bad guy.
• There’s no space combat.
• End of story.
• Epilogue that reveals something absolutely amazing if Discovery actually picks up on it.

I doubt Discovery will pick up on the Epilogue, though it’s possible. It was literally the only thing that I found to be of interest in the book.

#vaguebookreview

IDITAROD