The NCC1701A-Team
Courtesy of a friend who has it in a locked post so I won't say who it is. Extremely clever editing.And I rather like the "casting," although James Doohan in Mr. T's role does seem a bit of a stretch.

Not at a Con This Weekend
Unlike many of the people I know, I am not at Loscon, nor at OryCon, or even at SorcerorCon going on in its small way just a few miles from me. I'm taking the weekend off because I need the rest and because starting next Friday I start my five weeks on the road in Austin, Columbus, and Mehama.My thoughts are with everyone I know who is at one of those conventions, and I hope y'all are having fun. But my body is here at home and I'm getting extra sleep, which I need rather urgently.

Home Again
I was in no particular hurry this morning, so after a fairly leisurely breakfast and packing, it was back on the road to head back to Fremont. Traffic was a breeze. Even with a rest stop at Vacaville, it took less than three hours to get back home. There was heavy traffic going the other way while traversing Fairfield, though. Even with five lanes, that stretch of road didn't have enough capacity.I was wearing a shirt that is covered with diesel locomotives of various sorts in a bunch of fallen-flag railroad paint schemes. As I was coming out of the restroom, one of the people who operates the miniature railroad on the Nut Tree grounds, wearing traditional steam-railroad eng

Surplus Small Hard Drives
Lisa informs me that she's had a couple more of the small (40GB and smaller) hard drives on her laptop computers have gone bad on her. She doesn't need a big drive, but it's difficult to buy small IDE laptop hard drives at all, save refurbished drives online, and even those are annoyingly expensive. Anyone have any small IDE laptop hard drives sitting on a shelf that you want to get rid of?

Thanksgiving Presents
I will be away from home for nearly the entire month of December and will thus have no time for Christmas shopping or sending presents to my family. Therefore, instead, as I explained to my mother, she and my sister are getting Thanksgiving baskets instead of Christmas baskets.We took several photos of me, my mother, and my grandfather. I hope to be able print at least one of them at high quality a