On This Day

Today, on 24 November ...

1434: The River Thames froze over.

1715: The River Thames froze over again.

1859: Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection. The argument for evolution has been going on for 150 years to this day, and still some people can't accept that we are just mutated plains apes who just happen to have a talent for speech and abstract thought; a mutation which, by sheer accident, gave us a survival edge and turned us into the two-metre macrovirus of a species we are today.

1864: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born.

1991: Freddie Mercury died of his illness.

And, in 1962, yes that far back, my Mum and Dad got married.

Happy Anniversary, folks. :)

Oh, man ...

Two of these come from nyghtshayde, and the third came direct from ICHC:-


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Spare Me From The Klingonists!

I have a folder in my email account just for the Klingon mailing list. Once in a while, if it gets too much, I go in and I just delete the lot, unread. Sometimes I get 40 or 50 or more emails in that inbox in one night, and none of them ever get read.

Ever.

Once in a while I open one of them and take a look to see if I am missing something. Not really. I delete the email and carry on to wipe out the entire record of emails in my folder.

Last night, I made an innocuous comment. Someone piped up and said "Is that canon?"

The reply: "No, it's just Fiat Knox."

I replied that I'd found the actual words in the Klingon Dictionary. Page and line.

And the reply? "It's still not canon, because Marc Okrand hasn't used them in a sentence."

If the Apocalypse comes, I want it to single out these hypocritical, biased bastards first.

For now, I'm going back to deleting their words unread. They really contribute nothing save to stroke their egos. It must be like this with the Tolkien Elvish fans, and pity the poor bastards who come to a convention and try and start up a conversation with them.

You know what people ask me when they come up to me? "Why have you spent all this time studying a language from a kids' show?" I can live with that. I have a good answer to that. It beats "Are you still trying to teach your baby son Klingon?" any day.

The Thing I Did Today

I decided to write off the Klingon mailing list. I've heard horror stories of people attempting to unsubscribe from it, only for the mailing list to resubscribe them without their permission a month later. So I did the next best thing.

I just reedited the email filter to divert all incoming emails from the mailing list to my Trash folder, where they will not register as emails and they will meet with automatic deletion after a few days, unread, unmourned and unmissed.

And about time, too, I suppose. *washes hands of the stinking lot of them*

Writer's Block: I need my space ...

[Error: unknown template qotd]I got into one blind date where the girl confessed to being a career shoplifter. But clingy? Far from it. The moment they get a hint of someone sniffing around them, they've shot off. One minute we're together, the next she'd be off.

Hell, one of them tried it on with one of the actors from Star Trek. Not many people can say that their ex tried to run off with the High Chancellor of the Klingon Empire.

One exception - my ex bar one, who came from Brazil. We parted under less than happy circumstances. I would like to have met her one last time, to tell her that it was okay, and to let it all go in her company so we'd have known formally that it was all over.

That parting of the ways was too, too abrupt.