Σας ευχαριστώ όλους για τις θερμές ευχές γενεθίων! :-) Thank you everyone for the Birthday wishes :-) Vielen Dank für diene Geburtstagswünsche :-) Molto grazie a tutti per gli auguru che ho ricevuto :-) Merci beaucoup pour tes souhaites d'anniversaire hier :-)

Αυτό το τραγούδι μου θύμισε το λύκειο αυτή την περασμένη εβδομάδα.

Woah!  I don't often pay attention to the annual Free Comic Book Day (perhaps because I haven't really been reading comic-books regularly for the past 25 years), but this time around it seems like I can't miss it.  IDW will be putting together Mirror Universe stories, and it looks the TNG will be getting the mirror universe treatment.  Out of all the Star Trek series only TNG and

Every so often I log into Mixi, a Japanese social network akin to Facebook.  I got an invite to it back in the day when I was learning Japanese through JPod (and before they clamped down and required a Japanese cell phone number to join). I guess the Japanese don't like gaijin joining their social networks ;-)  In any case, Asian Kung-Fu Generation was advertised when I logged

Poor Doohan... (original archive here)

Back in 2006 there was a new show on TV which was good (which means that it was cancelled - HA!), called Jericho.  It was an action, mystery, drama type of show where a number of nuclear devices were detonated (simultaneously I think) throughout the continental US. Since the seat of government, DC, was destroyed there was some understandable chaos.  What emerged were the Allied States

The other day I decided to test out my university's maker space where they have a varied assortment of 3D printer sizes.  I've always wanted to 3D print something...well...since I saw one at a conference, but I didn't have the opportunity up until recently.  We've had the maker space for a while, but it hasn't been high on my priorities. So, now that the semester is coming  to an

Not quite "retro" but it's been a while since I've heard this song.  Before I looked this up this video for this post, I am not sure I had seen the official video (so I guess a potential NSFW warning here?)

I have been reading some Star Trek related literature and comic books over the past year (figured that there is plenty there to keep me entertained since there is no trek on TV...yet).  I came across this in a comic book recently (I think it's from the Year Four missions):

Στην δευτέρα λυκείου, τουλάχιστον στην Αμερική, αρχίζεις να σκέφτεσαι λίγο το τι θα γίνει μετά το λύκειο - με άλλα λόγια το που θα πας για πανεπιστημιακές σπουδές. Στην δευτέρα λυκείου κάναμε και κάποια δοκιμαστικά τέστ,