This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun of the (time honored?) trope of killing off the red shirt ;-) (original archive here)

Άντε, χρόνια μας πολλά! Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Merry Christmas :-)

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun some of the original Trek's medical technology.  What was that foot pumping thing anyway? (original archive here)

Just something making the rounds on facebook these days... Funny or enraging? ;-)

Well lookie here! Seems like Microsoft has also put out a "year in review" for people who play games on xbox (I wonder if it also counts xbox live on Windows).  Seems like I spent a lot of time playing games in 2015 (to balance out the hard work of studying for my doctorate no doubt).  It does seem like my friends (the 3 that I have on xbox live) don't play a ton of games.    Maybe

While we still have a few more weeks left in 2015, and I probably will finish one more book (the one I have in progress and listening to during my commutes these days), this is a mostly accurate view of my 2015 reading list.  One year I made my goal to read 30 books in a year - failed it.  Since then I've decided to keep it simple and focus on reading a book a month.  If I go over

Star Wars isn't my top sci-fi franchise, but this a-cappella of the Star Wars themes by Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" cast is pretty interesting :-)

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun of the Captain Kirk...and the many times his shirt seemed to rip open on the series... (original archive here)

This past semester one of my colleagues, and fellow co-instructor of the Instructional Design capstone project, suggested we use a new service called Pi to bring our sections together. This sounded like a great idea given that the capstone course tends to be pretty hermetic for most students, since they work on individual projects.  The separate sections also have a low number of students

Well, the first trailer for Beyond is out... and it looks like Mission Impossible in Space.  It's not that it's bad.  I like the trailer - but it' just very generic looking.  It looks like a generic, space, action movie that just happens to have the Star Trek logos and crew in it. Maybe other trailers in the future will be more indicative of what the movie is actually about.