data1701d (He/Him)

“Life forms. You precious little lifeforms. You tiny little lifeforms. Where are you?”

- Lt. Cmdr Data, Star Trek: Generations

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Cake day: March 7th, 2024

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  • I know about “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, but the mass shooting sort of violence in it is not so funny anymore; I much prefer “Christmas At Ground Zero”. I’ll have to look into the AC/DC one, though.

    Some of my favorites from my playlist:

    • Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick’s banger Christmas album One Christmas At a Time, of which my favorites are “Christmas In Jail”, “One Christmas at a Time”, and “Christmas with You Is the Best”
    • Also, Jonathan Coulton’s “Chiron Beta Prime”
    • “Sad” and “CryptoSanta” by Lemon Demon
    • “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight)” by the Ramones
    • Most of the stuff on “They Might Be Giants in Holidayland” EP is good; most of it is from earlier albums, but it’s a good collection of holiday stuff they’ve done. I’m just sad they’ve never released “We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime”.1
    • Puddle’s Pity Party version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, because it sounds like someone is sneaking up behind you to murder you.
    • “Me and the Snowman” by Logan Whitehurst

    1: There’s also a song called “Christmas Cards” never released outside of a 7" from 1993. “Christmas In the Bighouse” is not on streaming because it’s exclusive to the band’s shop; I own it on CD and in FLAC, but can’t put it on the playlist unfortunately because it’s in Apple Music and collaborative playlists can’t use personal library tracks.





  • Honestly, probably no. You’re switching to something with the same CPU generation and micro architecture, and the boards are by the same manufacturer with the same mobo chipset generation (both 5xx). It should be plug and play.

    The only major change I can see the old CPU has an iGPU, while the new one doesn’t, meaning that you won’t be able to use the video port built into your motherboard, only the ports on your GPU. I’m guessing you probably weren’t using that HDMI port in the first place, so it’s probably non-issue.

    EDIT: There is a small chance you’ll have to change your fstab depending on how it’s configured; if it’s done by drive UUID, it won’t be a problem.



  • Personally, what I think would be awesome is a semi-anthology series inspired by LD’s Wej Duj where each episode follows a different ship, and each episode builds to a final plot in which all the ships are involved.

    Of course, we’d have the Klingon episode, but mainly, I just want an episode called “Cetacean Ops” that follows the crew of the USS George & Gracie, a Starfleet vessel staffed almost entirely by a plethora of aquatic life forms - I’m talking humpback whale captain next to Xindi Aquatic first officer-type things.

    You might have a small crew of humanoids for maintenance and the occasional away mission or non-aquatic starbase, and you could explore an interesting story around how an aquatic crew tries to accommodate them.







  • Also, DuoLingo has lost its honor in general with its AI obsession and heavy layoffs; only a petaQ would use such a coward’s website.

    The only way a true warrior can learn Klingon is the old ways - the Okrand books and tapes!

    EDIT: Klingon Wiki is also helpful, as is KlingonSKA for searching words and Hol ‘ampaS for font-related stuff and digital versions of out-of-print Okrand tapes.