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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • This is why The Good Place is my comfort show. Chidi’s monologue both brakes me and puts me back together. Every moment in the finale is a work of art but that scene on the couch, there just aren’t words.

    Every time someone I know passes I watch that whole episode and it helps me find peace.









  • I agree with your take on the old 538 model, but if you read Nate’s new substack it become pretty clear that he’s been ‘captured’. Almost all of his post seem to fairly anti-Harris in their biases and it feels like all of his writings are really meant for one person, that person being the owner of Polymarket who he has a very large consulting contract. What these biases are doing to the Model I don’t know but the new model at 538 which was built from the ground up by other statisticians consistently trends about 10-20% higher odds for Harris taking the election.



  • I’m feeling personally attacked here! I come down on the Boimler side here I think, and I’d hate to argue with Beckett but she’s wrong.

    All Star Treks are awesome in their own way and there all my Favourite. I can’t and I won’t be made to pick a series.

    Those Old Scientists era is where it all starts and nobody tackles those great social issues like they did.

    The Animated Series is so forking batshirt crazy and fun. And they brought us my bois, the Kizinti!

    The original cast movies brought Trek back from the repeats. Yes even numbers are better but five got me to ask “Why does god need a starship”

    The Next Generation really kicked it in to high gear and expanded the universe.

    DS9 - I wouldn’t recommend any long story format higher.

    Voyager - if I didn’t love Voyager Janeway would kick my ass.

    The TNG movies had some kick ass action and amazing space battles.

    Enterprise really explored the beginnings and had a lot of fun filling in the niches and contradictions.

    I could keep going on and on but it’s late and I’ll leave you with how I alway feel about Trek series. My favourite one is one that I’m watching right now




  • It was less about the studio meddling and a bit more about the people who were involved weren’t in awe of George. His, at the time, wife was the editor on the first movie and she made a lot of changes in the editing bay to improve what was a bit of a mess they say. And don’t discount the amount of rewrites done on the fly by the cast. Carrie was taking everyone scripts and punching them a lot and she went on to become one of best punch up writers in Hollywood. Even Harrison Ford, a notoriously shy and conflict avoidant guy, was improvising his lines because he knew that Han wouldn’t say “I love you, too” even facing being frozen in Carbonite.