The simple quiet of a warm summer afternoon. I’m watching one right now on a deck over looking a rocky yard and a small lake nearby.

I grew up poor and never knew it until I grew older. We had enough but never enough for luxuries. In the summer I’d have a breakfast of tea and toast and be gone all day. I would go home for a small lunch and that was all the food I had and I never cared.

On days like today, I would just go roaming around everywhere with my friends. Like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn we’d just be outside doing nothing and everything all day long.

I’m in my 40s now, my bones ache, I tire easily and my friends are long gone either on their own path or gone from this life.

I miss those days and I miss my friends.

My wife always exclusively buys the cheapest coffee she can get.

I joke with her by telling her that this is the coffee that ten year children sweep off the floor of coffee warehouses

We used to do a variation of this as kids with parents that couldn’t afford much.

A warm bun that was left in the summer sun all afternoon, several thick slices of frozen butter and a freshly steaming hot boiled hot dog and nothing else.

We’d gobble down about two or three of these and run around all afternoon until dark without a care in the world.

Person dies and arrives in the afterlife in hevaen … it looks like heaven but everything is a little fucked up. All water is actually alcohol, drinking alcohol doesn’t get you drunk, hamburgers make you high, Hitler is dancing around with children, everything is edible, you can speak any language but you have a really high pitched voice, there’s a constant slight smell of urine everywhere and angels are obnoxious assholes.

Sounds like something from “Funky Walker, Dirty Talker”

My personal favorite from him was …

“Baby, I’d like to burst open your dam … and watch your river flow”

It always bugged me how in a lot of these scenarios … eventually everyone figures out that you can weaponize an entire ship … or weaponize the most powerful part of the ship

The biggest example of that was in Star Wars: The Last Jedi … where the rebels turn one of the ships around, aim it at the larger Empire’s Capital Ship, turn on the hyperdrive and suicide crash it into the enemy. Why didn’t the rebels after that point just build a bunch of cheap ships with hyperdrives and kamikaze them into the largest ships and even into the Death Star?

Same thing always bugged me about Warp Cores in Star Trek … why not just build an engine to drive a small warp core, aim it an enemy, send it at warp speed and cut a hole right through everything and detonate it to blow up an entire fleet of enemy ships?

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

Why don’t they just build a ship with like … 20 warp cores

Whenever there is a serious problem, just eject a warp core, again and again and again

Or when Shaxs or officers like him are just getting impatient and bored after two weeks of nothing happening, just let them eject a warp core for fun.

Wow … hilarious and glorious … beautiful work as usual.

Where’s the air lock … I want to leave now

Us internet old timers learned a lot about data extrapolation when we used to download porn on a 56k modem. You’d be surprised how much you could extrapolate from only downloading 10% of an image file. Or 100% of a pixelized image the size of a nickel of a photographed fax copy.

Main villain has a secret base that is filled with chairs with really high backs on all of them.

Thanks … I’ll put off cleaning my closet for another year now.

Is this a form of Data replication? But it looks like the transfer was slightly corrupted.

Thanks! … great work in maintaining everything … it’s much appreciated!

I’m Indigenous and we have a big sprawling family of cousins and relatives. When I was about ten, I was part of a small gang of about 20 kids my age and we all played together and loved wrestling and the WWF. A bunch of my cousins built a shitty looking wrestling ring in their backyard with old mattresses and lined it with old boards and dirty old rope with turnbuckles made of old clothing, duct tape and hockey equipment. We played on it for a long while until the literal body count of broken fingers, twisted ankles, bruises, cuts, scrapes, a dislocated shoulder, a few broken bones and a daily train of crying children forced the adults to shut it down.

But before it was closed, we all learned how to do a ‘figure-four leg lock’ … and how to reverse it! … and it was glorious to watch my buddies climb a turnbuckle, stand with arms raised and jump off into the air like Super Fly Jimmy Snuka … of all the dumb pictures I take now with my smartphone, I wish I could have taken tons of photos back then.

lol … god we used to go wild watching all that when we were kids and mock DDT the youngest kid in our group

Uncle jumps up onto the deck

You and the other kids get ready for a fire works show

Jake the Snake reaches into his bag and drops a hundred pound python onto your shoulders

The kids roar with excitement as you pass out from the snake wrapped around your neck and chest