We had a great block party on Friday and trick-or-treating on Saturday. Little Beaver is the youngest kid of the block, but she was running around with everyone else trying to keep up. I'm realizing how much the kids bring the neighbors together. We don't necessarily have much in common except them, but obviously enough that we can enjoy each other's company for a few hours.

but this is also the district that produced Chuck Edwards and Madison Cawthorne (who I had the pleasure of being in highschool with...)

Woof dah

The NC districts seem like a good example of how "compactness" is not a very useful criterion for drawing districts. The shapes look reasonable at first glance.

TNG. The first season is watchable, and later seasons are some of the best television ever made.

I don't recommend watching the entirety of TOS, since most episodes are fairly weak. But it's worthwhile to look up a "top ten best episodes of Star Trek The Original Series" and watch a handful of those that sound interesting. They will also give you the background you need if you decide to watch the Stark Trek movies, which are a mixed bag, but enjoyable.

DS9 is the next best series, and a lot of it is on par with TNG. But it's less episodic, and not a great entry point in the series.

VOY and ENT are a mixed bag. There's some genuinely great stuff in here, but I don't think you should seek them out until you get really into Star Trek.

New trek stuff is not worth watching, except for Lower Decks, which is a comedy, but also good Sci Fi.

Galaxy Quest and The Orville are comedy parodies of Star Trek that also happen to be surprisingly earnest Sci Fi. Worth watching after you finish TNG. Kind of a running theme of Star Trek is that the comedy parodies of it are great.

I think people underestimate the capacity for a major militaries to rapidly repair and rebuild bases and equipment. They did genuinely get pretty fucked up during the initial stages of the war, and that was super embaressing for the USA, but these kinds of facilities can get rebuilt and repaired very quickly. So Iran's strategy is obviously to keep applying pressure or the threat of pressure to these bases to disrupt operations and make attacks costly... which may not be working very well, unfortunately.

I have a vivid memory of listening to this on the radio of my walkman while baking in the afternoon heat on the schoolbus, eager to get home and play Goldeneye... but in denial about how much homework I had to do.

I'm having a hard time answering this one, because I genuinely think that simply not watching or reading any news is probably a better choice. But I'm assuming that's not an option, and she thinks it's her civic duty to stay up-to-date on the news.

The least harmful option may be the homepage of her local newspaper. You'll have to actually read it though, a lot of these will be just as brain-rotting as a national news site.

God willing it's all going straight into the IRGC coffers.

We need to get a film crew to follow Flavio around Florida. This is perfect weird documentary fodder.

One of the GOATs of acting. The character of Jean-Luc Picard was one of my male role models growing up.

In the perfect society, everyone in the household should go to bed at the same time, and sleep in one gigantic bed.

Bye Felicialavio