Had an urge to reminisce...

...and I just had to watch The Graham Norton Show!
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by PAM

All that driving around Idaho last week, before heading home to Manila, reminded me of my roadtrip with my family last year from Meridian, ID through Oregon to San Francisco, CA to Los Angeles, CA to Las Vegas, NV and back to Idaho - but in Boise, ID this time. And it was just as well as it was Thursday, after all... 'throwback Thursday' and all that.  

Anyway, yes, that roadtrip was awesome!  And what made all the reminiscin' so fun was the memory of the Extraterrestrial Highway (or 'ET Highway') amid the endlessly rolling desert of Nevada. The ET Highway was actually the Nevada State Road 375.  I remember how amazing the drive was that merely recalling how it was led to adrenaline rush!  

Now, I just have to find a way to dissipate all that energy packed by the memory of the ET Highway!  And so, Star Trek... and Jean-Luc Picard came to mind. I do remember that Graham Norton has had very good interviews with Patrick Stewart - the brilliant actor that gave life to Picard.  And, look what I found...

          GN:  'Cause you had nicknames, growing up, didn't you?

          PS:  Yeah, I did. "Stewpot" was one of my nicknames. "Stewie" was another one. 

                 It's different now, you know, social media... there's another one, "Beef Stew",

                which I rather like. (2:04 - 2:32)

          GN: Do you (go to the) gym all the time?

          PS:  No, sir, I do not.  I just think clean thoughts.  (6:27 - 6:35)

Totally hilarious, it made my evening... eventhough nothing about the interview had anything to do with ET Highway!  At least, there is some 'ray of sunshine' in this gloomy rainy August Thursday. Ah, talk about the 'ghost month' that is August!

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Video credit:  Thank you, YouTube, for the video link.

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Saturday photo

Trekkie, Trekker Day!  Hooray! 
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by PAM

"To boldly go where no man has ever gone before...."

Just dropping by real quick to say, happy 46th Launching Anniv to the Starfleet/Starship USS Enterprise!  Geekiness lives on, and on, and on... and on!

Alright,  "beam me up, Scotty!"  

Later....

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Photo credit:  Thanks, Google!

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Wednesday nostalgia...

...Trekker, trekkie!
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by Philipina A. Marcelo


"When something is important enough, you make the time."

It's one of those important lessons that's incredibly vivid in my head, one which I always share with my students... and it came from Lt. Hikaru Sulu
"...to boldy go where no man has gone before." - a helmsman in the Starship USS Enterprise (NC-1701).

Yep, "Star Trek", baby! ;)

Call me geek, I don't care... I'm an avid fan! I got definitely caught up in that Starfleet-generated energy ribbon... starting from the original series, with Capt. James T. Kirk and his mandala-carrying half-vulcan, half-human Number One, Mr. Spock, to the "The Next Generation" of awesome techieness with Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his Number One, William Riker. I burned the boobtube to catch as many episodes as possible... and bought "used books", too! 'Cause, c'mon, which science fiction series is actually bold enough to tackle that incredible scientific abstraction called entropy without sounding like it was being presented with a footnote, huh? :)

Okay, so maybe "House" and "CSI" in the current times come close to cool geekiness... but, that's the
"...to boldly go where no one has gone before."thing, y'see... they are cool! =) The characters are wonderfully sarcastic or too pouty and fashionably flashy - too perfect to be true compared with the "traditionally geeky" spandex-wearing Star Trek characters with their seat-of-cheesiness fashion sense! :) In spite of that, the USS Enterprise crew uttered undying "quotable quotes" - the seriously serious kind. And they fearlessly took up "profound" engineering stuff like, uhm, a-hem, Fluid Mechanics, as if vena contracta is as common as an LV purse! :) Awesomeness? Definitely! :)

Alright then... beam me up, Scotty! :)

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Photo credit: Photos are not mine - grabbed from other websites -thanks.