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[Nate the Great]

Clips from the most popular song from each month in the 1980s.


I was surprised at how many of these I recognized. I was just a kid then, but I may have mentioned that I have two older sisters who were teenagers then. Plus I've seen more than a few Disney TV specials that made AMVs with these songs and cartoon clips.



The same thing, only the 1990s.


I never heard a lot more of these. As the decade ended I was in high school so things got more familiar. I had a few classes where most sessions were just work time with the radio in the background.



The 2000s.


In college now, so lots of radio listening during the commute. As the decade goes on I know fewer of these.



The 2010s.


Yikes. What can I say?

[Nate the Great]

The 1987 version of The Secret Garden


I think this is the youngest I've ever seen Colin Firth. Secret Garden is one classic that I prefer to read rather than watch, I don't think there's been a movie yet that really does it justice. As I've mentioned elsewhere, some stories depend on the internal transformation of the main character, and it's hard to convey that in film.

[Nate the Great]

Box art for the TNG computer game The Transinium Challenge


It's amazing how good the art is on some characters yet awful on others. Data in particular looks more like Spiner's stunt double than Spiner himself.


Meaniningless side question: Do you like the extra braid on the Season One uniforms? Personally I never really liked it, it didn't seem to serve a purpose.

[Nate the Great]

Lego in Real Life


This guy makes stop motion videos of himself cooking things, only the food turns into Lego bricks as soon as a kitchen tool touches it. He clearly puts a lot of effort into these.

[Nate the Great]

Is Spock responsible for Wolf 359?


The argument runs thusly: Spock's efforts at peace, especially with the Klingons, led to a Starfleet that was "not a military organization" and was thus unprepared for the Borg.



An interesting argument, but I don't buy it for a second. The more interesting argument is the counter-argument. If Starfleet had stayed militaristic would they have made it out to the Farpoint area, and thus stayed off the Q's radar? No Q means no Borg (forget the Raven and Seven's parents, that whole plot point was ludicrous from the get-go), at least for several more decades.

[Nate the Great]

Someone turns a bunch of brass keys into a "gold bar".


While it's nice to see tools in operation that I don't get to see very often, I must admit that I'm too afraid of injury to be around stuff that hot.

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