Star Trek Discovery aired yesterday, Rob and I watched it last night at his place.
Mixed feelings at this stage, the visuals are fantastic, the acting is good and the story telling is great. My problems so far are with the glaring canon issues (oh and the ship is butt ugly), the writers say they are canon and to 'give us time', which I fully intend to do, and I will reserve judgement until I’ve seen the full first season.
It is great to have Star Trek on the TV screen again!
I spotted this on ThinkGeek, it was even on special, I just couldn’t leave it there.
Live Long and Prosper.
Those of you that read this blog probably know me pretty well, and as such would know that I’m a big fan of smartwatches, I mean whats the point of lugging around a thing on your wrist that can only tell you the time? I stopped wearing watches years ago for that reason. So as you can imagine Ive been drooling over an Apple Watch even since they were announced, I had intended to preorder one, but when preorder day came along I was broke..
And so I had to sit back and watch as the world lapped up Apples stock.
Several months later, my birthday came along, and my fiancee presented me with a 42mm Apple Watch, suddenly I remembered what birthdays were like as a 5 year old.
I've had this now for a couple of weeks and it is every bit as awesome as I imagined! The ability to get notifications and respond to them on your wrist without the need to get your phone out is unbelievably handy, so is having all of your loyalty cards on your wrist! Not to mention all the cool extra stuff like, taking phone calls on your wrist, remote control for the iPhone camera, getting a brief look at the weather forecast and all the awesome, customizable watch faces.
One of the features fairly high on my favorites list isn’t the activity tracking that this thing can do, but the best thing about that is it keeps track of how long you spend sitting and after 50 minutes of sitting it taps you on the wrist and says you need to stand up and walk around. I spend far to much time sitting, either for work or in front of a computer and so this is a very handy feature. All this is set to get better too with the next OS update for this thing!
So to sum up this is an AWESOME watch, and I have THE BEST Fiancee ever!!
Those that know me know that I am a big Star Trek fan, so I was saddened to hear that Leonard Nimoy, the legendary Mr. Spock, died overnight.
Being a fan I went around reading some of the articles and comments posted after his death, I wound up reading the wikipedia entry on Nimoy, and I stumbled onto some very interesting information! Which I think is quite cool. The famous Vulcan Salute and accompanying phrase 'Live Long and Prosper' was created by Nimoy himself, and is based on a blessing given by Jewish priests, which comes from Aaron's Blessing in Numbers 6:
"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.”
"Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." — Spock
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." — Spock
"You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise." — Spock
"Loss of life is to be mourned, but only if the life was wasted" — Spock
"He's not really dead as long as we remember him" — Bones
"Live Long and Prosper" — Spock