[i offer you blue cheese and you are somehow aware that, despite the phrases being homophonous and sharing an identical referent, i am trying to pronounce it so that you understand what i am saying is spelled like "bloochies"]

My partner and I went on a hike yesterday, and at one point I asserted that I was going to pick a bunch of random mushrooms we found on a log and then never share them, because "…it's mycotoxin, not our-cotoxin."

Doing another cross-stitch project. This time, it's not a Star Trek thing. It is a completely different Deep Nerd Interest.

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." Now updated for 2025.

@picofarad Oh, to be clear, we do actually know the model and designer of the chairs in the show! There are whole web sites devoted to tracking the designers, brands, models, and so forth of items in Star Trek: not just chairs, but also stuff like glassware and lamps. Here's a page with a whole bunch of the chair details: https://star-trek.design/seating

@picofarad Art Deco is a few decades too early: that was popular from the 1910's through 1930's. Lots of Art Deco furniture would be way more ornate (and a tad more traditional-looking) than what you're seeing here.

That said, I think you're right, you've just named the wrong style: it's Mid-Century Modern that would have been the popular around the time of TOS, and I think you're right that TOS uses a lot of more adventurous MCM furniture as set dressing.

You might think that Star Trek is a show about exploration, about science, about morality, about what humanity is capable of if we truly embrace the best of ourselves. That is a misconception! Star Trek is, in fact, a show about the weirdest chairs you've ever seen.

I'm not quite sure how to feel about opening up a streaming service and seeing, "Based on your watch history, we think you'll love this: ZARDOZ"

I don't fully endorse all parts of this old blog post (in large part because I've come around on autoformatters) but I still absolutely endorse the section about list comprehensions: https://journal.infinitenegativeutility.com/some-notes-about-how-i-write-haskell

Something I believe about programming language design is that comprehensions are underrated (especially when you combine them with pattern-matching) so it pleases me a little bit to see them show up in Jane Street's OCaml extension thingy.

One of the funniest things in Enterprise is when they want to do a really direct prequel to a Star Trek concept and end the episode with Captain Archer doing a portentous but corny speech. Like when they first accidentally interfere in a non-warp capable civilization, and Archer opines, "Maybe some day… we'll have something to tell us how to behave in these situations… some kind of… Directive…"

…I should mention that most of these designs were created using a tiny unreleased Rust library I wrote for generating SVG files. Because it was for plotting, I of course named the library `gunpowder-treason`.

It's been a while since I've plotted—these are probably a half-decade old—but I should do it more more, since the results are so satisfying.

You know, when I was younger, I read several books that referenced the stereotype of the "granola-munching hippie", but since I'd never had granola at the time, I always assumed that granola must be some kind of unpalatable food that this subculture had an acquired taste for. This made me very confused when I finally tried granola and it was uncomplicatedly delicious.

On reflection, this is the typical Narnia reader's experience of Turkish Delight, but inverted.

I'm still in the shop-furniture stage of making things out of wood—so they're, like, rough and barebones things—but even still, it's satisfying to start with a pile of wood and end up with useful objects. These are the mobile workbenches I put together recently.

Recently I've been watching Columbo. While it is a murder-mystery show, it's not usually terribly grim or dark by the standards of such things. The episode I watched tonight was different, though. It really showed you the shocking, heinous things people are capable of.

I'm talking, of course, about this mustard-yellow carpeted bathroom.

I'm not usually suspicious of Japanese baked goods, but taiyaki is a little fishie.

I've been starting to pick up two new hobbies lately: leatherworking and woodworking. You might think there's relatively little overlap, but actually they are united by a common thread: both use WAY more glue than you might naïvely expect.

Also all these notes from a sadly-abandoned-during-early-COVID-times West Marches game played with a lightly hacked Dungeon World. (I still really like my rule presentation that used colors and sigils to try to clarify the rules: I should do more of that.)