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Star Trek Universe Loses Majel Barrett Roddenberry

December 18th, 2008 · No Comments

In a more enlightened age, Majel Barrett Roddenberry might have rated a Federation command. As it was, she helped rule the Star Trek universe.
Roddenberry, the widow of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, died today at her Bel-Air, Calif., home, Roddenberry.com said. The reported cause of death was leukemia.
Billed through much of her acting career as Majel [...]

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Tags: Movies & TV · News · Personal

How things can change perspective (and plans) in an instant

November 18th, 2008 · No Comments

So I’m taking a PTO day today - not having felt too well after a late-night maintenance window for work (I know, 2am isn’t that late for me, but I think it was just catching up with me). And I’m checking emails, and doing the morning check over on facebook to see what’s going on [...]

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Matt & Michelle’s Wedding: Halloween Night 2008

November 10th, 2008 · No Comments

You know when there’s a wedding that the ceremony makes mention of Cthulhu, zombies, the apocalypse, and brains – it’s going to be cool. Until Kendra’s wedding, the one’s I’d been to where people would describe a wedding as “being reflective of the couple’s personality.” They would tend to be an exercise in freaking out [...]

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Tags: Personal · Photos

A sense of difference

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

THE WORLD should look different today, but it does not. The streets look much the same as they did Tuesday, Monday and many days before. The leaves are piling in the gutters and kicked aside by children on their way to meet the school bus. A wet wind gusts out of the south, promising one [...]

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Tags: Personal · Politics

We, the un-American

October 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So Palin continues to deride those areas and individuals who don’t vote Republican in the election, that they’re really anti-American. They’re traitors to their country, and they don’t really love god, the flag, or apple pie.
I was reading over a post by a blogger who was extolling how Palin will ride to the rescue [...]

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