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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • I live near a parking lot for semi trucks to chill after manufacture, before leaving the factory properly. They used to have obnoxious sodium vapor lights that bathed the general area in a dull orange glow at night, maybe a bit brighter than full moonlight.

    Then they massively expanded the lot (and bulldozed 5 acres of forest, and at least 100 more of what used to be pollinator habitats, and put in led lighting.

    As they stripped it all down and put down flat black asphalt they were all over the news about how environmental they are for using LEDs.

    The LEDs have even worse than normal light spill because the lamps are all 45 degree canted, thus flooding the sky as well. Each lamp that used to hold one small boxed sodium lamp now has FIVE PAIRS of 2ftx3ft panels spaced every 20 or so semi spots.

    In spring and fall when clouds/fog sit right above the hills, you can see it clear as a beacon from almost 10 miles away. Farther if you’re on your own hill.

    And in winter, the trees around me are bare enough that I needed to buy blackout curtains.

    Every so often I fantasize about ripping them all down with a truck during their holiday shutdowns, and leaving an extremely condescending printout of proper lighting techniques taped to each pole.


  • O’Neill (two Ls) absolutely would not be just sitting in a bar playing darts. He’d be poking around where he should be, telling Daniel to ask his annoyingly humanitarian questions to make sure DS9 isn’t some weird hidden prison camp (anymore) and probably trying to step in to help assist against the dominion. If it’s Mitchell, above still applies but he’d also be participating. I assume it would have to be Mitchell if the Atlantis team is able to appear, but hey it’s time travel baby! Rules go byebye. Sha’re and Drey’ac could show up too.

    Daniel is always translating for the group, and we only get to hear other languages spoken when Daniel has trouble translating. It’s their version of handwaving why everyone speaks English instead of handwaving as a universal translator (that wouldn’t work if you aren’t on a ship or don’t have a comm badge or are on a planet where no tech works, but everyone still understands each other anyway)

    And Carter would be having so much fun trying to figure out how all the tech works, I think she would demand to see the chief engineer and science officer. Things could get weird if she’s read the Atlantis mission files yet.

    And if it’s the Atlantis team showing up, they’re probably going to assume someone figured out Laiden’s plans, saved Cowen, and now they’re plotting revenge on a repurposed mining station from a long dead civilization.

    Man there are so many actors that have been in both franchises, it’s hard to pick which would be the most interesting in-character interaction to see.

    Jellico/O’Neill would be hilarious. The Nox could sure teach quark a thing or two. I’d love to see Q come face to face with Simmons. Teyla rounding a corner and running into Tucker would certainly be a fight worth watching.

    I wonder, would Teal’c even recognize Ishta as tpol?




  • Here’s a crazy idea:when a tourist does a crime, punish them for it?

    Also 100% in favor of chasing social media addicts off your property line with fire crackers.

    Incidentally, I once had a rather obnoxious encounter this past year when a young man parked in a nearby service road and walked over to take photos of the trees behind my house.

    There is no legal way to do this, as you’re either tresspassing on my property, or the farm property nearby.

    I opened the back door, and asked what he was doing since he’s tresspassing and literally walked past a sign telling him not to.

    “oh I just thought these trees looked nice against the sunset and figured I’d come back to take pictures”

    So he saw the trees, saw it was sunset and thought “I bet it looks good” because there’s no way to see it from the main road due to the shape of the hills around me. You can certainly guess it’s visible if you look at the tree tops, but unless you’re on the ground you can’t actually see it to know if it’s worth a view.

    Told him to leave in under a minute because that’s about how long it’s going to take me to unlock my guns and get the sheriff’s office down the road on the phone.

    Unless you argue I have no intention of bringing a weapon out, and I certainly don’t care to have police crawling around looking for an excuse to hurt people.

    Luckily he kind of sprinted back to his car.

    I’m very reasonable if you knock on my door and ask to take pictures. I had a couple ask to take a couple engagement photos up against the farmers field, and I was more than happy to oblige. Get your photos, but for the love of mergatroid, ASK FIRST




  • “so how have you been” as they walk into the room, and don’t bother waiting for an answer before asking why you’re bothering them here today.

    There’s your emotional assessment. That’ll be $40.

    Honestly if I saw this on my bill if be calling my doctor directly to ask what the actual fuck this bullshit is.