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Nate the Great 05-18-2022 02:33 AM

A video clip of Voyager arriving at Earth


A nice clip, but I like the comment section more. The commenters joke that Voyager could land at Starfleet Headquarters, but it would ruin Boothby's flowers. :D

Nate the Great 05-18-2022 03:50 PM

The ten-minute anime Wizard of Oz


You just can't tell this story in ten minutes. The point of the Wizard of Oz isn't the major plot events, it's the development of the characters and how they interact with the world of Oz.

Nate the Great 05-22-2022 10:24 PM

Matthias Wandel never ceases to amaze with his wooden creations.


A wooden hand-cranked escalator to keep a Slinky in motion going "downstairs."

Nate the Great 05-24-2022 01:45 AM

A Trek/Wars crossover meme that has to be seen to be groaned at.

Nate the Great 05-25-2022 01:08 AM

A short explanation of how warp drive works.



I find it interesting that so much screentime was devoted to explaining the particulars of getting warp plasma to the nacelles, and yet once it gets to the coils, what happens after that? How do the warp coils turn plasma into a subspace field?



Furthermore, why isn't all of the antimatter kept in the nacelles along with a warp core in each? After all, jettisoning the nacelles in the event of a warp core breach would surely be less work than a full saucer separation, right?

Nate the Great 05-26-2022 02:48 PM

The Peanuts cast as the TNG crew


Cute idea, but of course my mind goes to the fact that they put six rear stations on the bridge instead of five.



(Is that supposed to be the Little Red Haired Girl as Dr. Crusher? I will never call her Heather)

Nate the Great 05-27-2022 01:47 AM

Is Yoshi a dragon or a dinosaur (or was he a Koopa the whole time?)


Truly a matter that must be settled before the madness spreads.

Nate the Great 05-27-2022 02:58 AM

So Disney is making a new Willow series.


Since it's a continuation instead of a reboot and Warwick Davis is on board I'm moderately hopeful.



Although let's be honest, rebooting Willow would be rather pointless as the story was always a mashup of the monomyth and Star Wars. You could call it anything, why drag Willow's name through the mud?


Nash reviews Willow on Here There Be Dragons

Nate the Great 05-30-2022 03:03 PM

A rather impressive LEGO Technic clock


My only real problem is that ugly mechanism for the second hand being in front of the clock face. He couldn't have moved that to the rear?


It is ingenious how the second hand trips the minute hand after each revolution.

Nate the Great 06-01-2022 02:36 AM

So I've had a fondness for "Wishing On A Star" (as covered by Miriam Stockley) ever since it was the theme song for The 10th Kingdom over twenty years ago. Cover roundup!


Rose Royce from 1977, apparently the original version
Will Downing pushes it into a soul/R&B direction
Fresh Four (the backing track is too loud in my opinion)
The Cover Girls is more like smooth jazz
Randy Crawford pushes it into '80s dance party territory
Jay-Z and Gwen Dickey, an odd combination of an unrelated rap with the song
Beyonce goes towards soul music, again the backing track is too loud
Seal has an interesting combination of instruments and styles
X Factor Finalists (no comment will do this one justice, just watch and smile)

Nate the Great 06-02-2022 12:56 AM

What's the best way to boil water?


In terms of time and energy efficiency, I mean.


It should be noted that I'm neither a coffee nor tea drinker. Occasionally I enjoy a hot cider, but even then I just use the microwave.

Nate the Great 06-07-2022 04:06 AM

I missed Towel Day this year, so here's a YouTube video for all the other unhoopy strags who missed it as well.


For some reason, someone put a Zaphod Bebblebrox cosplayer in a TOS uniform...

Nate the Great 06-07-2022 01:58 PM

So recently LEGO put out a series of Muppet minifigs...


Well, someone designed a Muppet Theater set to put them into, and it looks pretty cool if you ask me.

Nate the Great 06-08-2022 03:10 PM

If you like large-scale engineering projects like me, you may want to subscribe to The B1M channel on YouTube.


Today's video is just insane. A historic theater is being lifted to make room for a commercial space below it. The Palace is just that important, spanning from the vaudeville era to the Broadway era.

Nate the Great 06-12-2022 02:37 PM

It's always fun to see people animate Trek clips as though they were from TAS-style cartoons. This time it's Voyager's turn.

Nate the Great 06-19-2022 03:48 AM

Food Theory tackles Left Twix VS Right Twix


This is one marketing campaign that I always hated. It's idiotic. At best it exemplifies PT Barnum's observation that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. Which might be from someone other than Barnum, but I don't care.



For that matter, we're not even sure if Barnum ever said "there's a sucker born every minute."



At least we know that "a fool and his money are soon parted" comes from the Bible.

Nate the Great 06-25-2022 03:27 PM

Just a random Mythbusters clip to brighten your day.


Nate the Great 07-06-2022 12:22 AM

A song about the shapes of the nations of the earth as two guys try to decided which is closest to a square.


(Spoiler: Egypt)


Just in case you've grown sick of Yakko's World and have already watched the video that lists its inaccuracies.

Nate the Great 07-10-2022 08:54 PM

Galaxy Quest Retrospective


As you'll recall when Alan Rickman died, I am not a fan of this movie. But I am a fan of Rowan Coleman's videos. He's also covered a number of Trek subjects.



Why don't I like Galaxy Quest? The aliens (all of them) are idiots, I don't like plots where people think fiction is reality, and let's be real here, the moviemakers were more interested in throwing stones at Trek than actually creating a cohesive plot.

Nate the Great 07-25-2022 01:04 AM

The evolution of Tommy Westphall universe maps.



Just in case you haven't had your daily pop culture headache yet today.


A more visual map, I'm not sure which is more extensive.

Nate the Great 07-26-2022 10:19 PM

David Warner died on the 24th. He was 80. Between Gul Madred and Gorkon he has his place in Trek immortality assured. St. John Talbot is a distant third.



A toast to the undiscovered country.
"Don't let it end this way, Captain."
How many lights are there?
Madred is a pitiable man

Nate the Great 07-27-2022 12:37 AM

First trailer for Shazam 2.


I don't like Captain Marvel (Shazam is the wizard and always will be) acting like a kid. Billy Batson is supposed to have the wisdom of Solomon, and Solomon wasn't a dork.



You didn't ask, but I also didn't like Captain Marvel in Young Justice. The Justice League version was better, the Superman/Shazam version was better.



And yes, I don't like the idea of a Shazam family this big. Cap Jr. and Mary Marvel are enough. At the very least the movies could explicitly say that Cap's powers are drastically reduced when someone else is using them at the same time.

Nate the Great 07-27-2022 04:36 PM

Yu-gi-oh creator Kazuki Takahashi died a few weeks ago, but I only found out today. This saddens me, Yu-gi-oh has given me a lot of joy over the years.


The first episode
Dark Side of Dimensions remix of the theme song
First episode of The Abridged Series
Cheap Damage covers the board game
Yu-gi-oh Poker Night

Nate the Great 07-27-2022 08:48 PM

Galidor Documentary


Yes, Galidor, the doomed LEGO product line that couldn't hope to compete with Power Rangers or Bionicle.


I was a member of the LEGO club at the time, so I saw many articles about it in the magazine. I even had a minicomic or two. I never bought any of the toys, as I have a longstanding hatred of construction toys that can only make one thing and nothing else. For those urges I had plastic models, including many Trek starships.

Nate the Great 07-29-2022 01:44 PM

Element14 makes a wifi dongle for a parallel port dot matrix printer.


It makes me smile when people create new tech to keep using old tech.


I did use a parallel port-to-usb dongle for awhile to keep using old printers. I only bought a new printer when Windows 10 got too advanced to support it.

Nate the Great 08-01-2022 03:11 AM

For complicated reasons I found myself on a barbershop quartet kick on YouTube. You really don't want to know...


First up is the Newfangled Four. They combine barbershop with comedy.
Spoonful of Sugar Parody
Hello My Baby if it was written in the style of each decade
Supercalifragilistic-etc. Parody
All Star. This one makes way too much sense as a barbershop song.
Gaston Parody




I shilled A Capella Trudbol last year, but only posted his version of I Want It That Way. Time for more!
I Got Rhythm
Jeepers Creepers (I still associate Hayley Mills the most with this song)
Side By Side (Hayley strikes again!)

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Yes, someone turned Monty Python into barbershop quartet. What, someone had to!)

By The Light of the Silvery Moon (I associate this song the most with Doris Day thanks to the movie of the same name, today I discovered that there are certain songs that Bing Crosby just can't do properly, and this is one of them).
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh Theme

You're A Grand Old Flag
There's Always Tomorrow from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (I still think this one is underappreciated, original version)
Istanbul Not Constantinople (bet you thought this one couldn't be barbershopped, didn't you?)

Goodnight My Someone (The Music Man is one my favorite musicals, but only the Preston original. Avoid the Broderick version at all costs!)

Nate the Great 08-01-2022 01:33 PM

Nichelle Nichols died on Saturday. Ouch.


Uhura pwns Mr. Adventure
Uhura fixes the communications board. TOS knew how to elevate unimportant plot scenes by including character work. I refer you to SF Debris' review of "Force of Nature" showing how badly this can backfire. Heck, even "Shades of Grey" did the character work better than that!
Uhura is not offended by "negress"

Nate the Great 08-02-2022 07:58 PM

A breakdown of how typewriters work, and how typewriter tech still dictates keyboard design today.


And the Amazing Thing That I Learned Today is that the carriage return bell isn't rung when you're out of room, but when you're almost out of room so you can plan ahead for split/hyphenated words going to the next line.


I had also never heard of typeballs and how you can use them to change the font you're using.


I also didn't know that at one point there were typewriters that stuck letter-shaped blots of ink onto the paper weakly enough that you could quickly use a piece of tape to pull said blots off and remove the letter.

Nate the Great 08-03-2022 02:15 AM

A couple of Yu-gi-oh players try to imagine what Yami Marik and Yami Bakura's decks would look like in today's metagame and play a match.



I found it very entertaining, and I don't even follow the current metagame. I didn't know that there was that much Ra support, much less Dark Necrofear support.

Nate the Great 08-04-2022 03:39 PM

MinutePhysics tackles Portal physics.


Usually I like his videos, but in this case he's completely wrong. He's somehow implying that portals affect the trajectory of objects moving towards them, but they don't.



Portal portals are transparent, you can see what's on the other side. Therefore we're not dealing with wormholes or other tunnels through space that connect A and B. Instead space is actually being pinched so that A and B are occupying the same point. No speed is being imparted, velocity vectors are just being redirected.



I think he's operating on a premise where it actually is a wormhole that has a certain suction force that expels the object. In other words, the object is being dissolved and reconstructed like a Stargate portal. But Stargate portals are not Portal portals!

Nate the Great 08-06-2022 01:46 AM

July 27th was the 25th anniversary of Stargate SG-1. I'm waiting for the 30th anniversary to start the retrospective, but here's some Stargate links:


Reddit thread where fans celebrate their favorite lines
Gizmodo celebrates the anniversary
Gateworld gives a short history of the franchise
Star Trek and Farscape parodies from the 200th episode

Nate the Great 08-09-2022 02:37 AM

AVGN's top five TV shows. TNG is #3.

Nate the Great 08-10-2022 06:10 PM

Steve Shives does a tribute to Uhura.


Someday I really should go through TOS and try to come up with places where the Trinity could've given up screentime to Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov. I certainly intend to do something similar when I get to Voyager in 2025.

Nate the Great 08-16-2022 04:11 PM

pocket83^2 mods "safe" lawn darts to have points again

Nate the Great 08-17-2022 02:28 AM

Ashens covers some Canadian food


Some of this stuff I wouldn't even consider Canada-specific.

Nate the Great 08-24-2022 02:43 AM

For some reason I'm in a Chip 'n Dale mood today.


The original by The Jets. I first heard this one during a Magical World of Disney (okay, at the time was probably the Disney Sunday Movie) episode that was shilling the upcoming show.


The actual episode. I forgot that Carol Channing was on the show!



And the music video. Too...much...'80s!


I never knew about this alternate version of the theme, but I can see why they went with the Jets instead.



The cover from the recent show. I don't know how to feel about this one, there seems to be a lack of enthusiasm in the voice and it's a bit too slow. Hip hop should never feel slow.



Can someone explain to me why making a song stutter and adding a drum track is supposed to improve a song?



Jonathan Young strikes again. I didn't know he could play the keytar. I like how the sparkly synth balances the drum.


On a church organ. Now this is transforming a song to match the instrument while still keeping the heart.



A full orchestra almost makes the theme sound cinematic


Like I'd skip the Coo-Coo Cola theme in a post like this


Have I really not posted Of Mice and Mayhem yet? It's a very good webcomic continuation of the show that's able to go a bit darker while still keeping the heart of the show.

DrWho42 08-24-2022 06:35 AM

rewatching nathan for you (2013-2017). i forgot about the one song where they try to use the smoke detector as a musical instrument:

Orphaned Skies

Nate the Great 08-24-2022 11:16 PM

The Desk of Death Battle tackles the question of whether "James Bond" is actually one guy or simply an alias that goes along with the 007 title.


To me everyone Pre-Craig is the same guy. Tracy married the Lazenby Bond, but it was clearly implied that Moore and Dalton's Bonds were married to the same woman. The references in regard to the Brosnan Bond were more oblique but still there.

Nate the Great 08-25-2022 02:57 AM

EC Henry tackles the fundamental message of TOS


He presents some interesting ideas. I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with it (one could debate forever about the true meaning of the Roddenberry Gospel), but it's still thought-provoking.

Nate the Great 08-25-2022 10:06 PM

The animation from the failed "Saban Moon" pitch has been found.



Yeah, um, that was...something.


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