Daniel C. Hodges

I do adore how you traipse all throughout *Trek* eras for these videos!

List of machine-generated updates for USPS package tracking showing that it went through Indianapolis, up to South Bend, and has now arrived back in Indianapolis.

Oh good, my package's gone **back** to Indianapolis. Thanks, USPS.

Came home from family Thanksgiving and promptly fell ill. Almost recovered from that when I immediately fell ill again. Happy Holidays from the bottom of a bottle of *Quil.

The problem being that too many people think everything's working out exactly as they wanted, if not better.

7/10; Nice but weird—a Japanese Christmas film that… is very Japanese.

Pottyply Crapped

Your toilet has been used 2193 times this year!

That's 9825 minutes, & your longest session of 48m puts you in the top 2%!

You used the short flush 56% of the time, saving over 2895 litres of water.

The most you flushed was six times in a row, on 28th Nov.

Happy piss streaming!

Tokyo Godfathers - Wikipedia

First Christmas film of the season: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_G...

When I go to the grocery store to just buy one item I make sure I don't get a cart or basket so that when I get to the checkout I look like a complete idiot struggling to not drop the twelve other things I picked out.

@tombrazelton.bsky.social Hey, what's your opinion on Bluegrass music?

Me as a child: Climbs trees, somersaults off the couch, rides my bike over makeshift ramps.

Me now: I injured my shoulder 2 nights ago by sleeping. I was feeling better today but just reinjured it by sneezing.

@librophilia.bsky.social told me that her students don't know who LeVar Burton is or what *Reading Rainbow* is. I said their parents should be charged with child abuse. #getoffmylawn #yellingatclouds

Twelve album covers in two rows. First row: Garth Brooks' 1993 album *In Pieces*, Passion's 1999 album *Better Is One Day*, Michael Giacchino's 2016 soundtrack to *Star Trek Beyond*, the 1996 soundtrack to *Space Jam*, Rednex's 1995 album *Sex & Violins*, and Janet Jackson's 1997 album *The Velvet Rope*. Second row: Nina Simone's 1959 album *Nina Simone at Town Hall*, Sandi Patty's 1981 album *Love Overflowing*, Carman's 1985 album *The Champion*, Keith Green's 1977 album *For Him Who Has Ears to Hear*, God's Property's 1997 album *God's Property from Kirk Franklin's Nu Nation*, and Bob Dylan's 1967 album *John Wesley Harding*.

However many days later, my thumbs are 98% healed, and my right arm & knee are at 90%. However, my right thigh and left wrist are still crazy sore, hurting whenever I overextend them (even mildly). It sucks being a senior citizen, I gotta say.

Got fired for yelling "Freeze, dirtbag!" every time I put a new bag of potting soil on the shelf at Home Depot.

Roxann Dawson, who played Torres on *Star Trek: Voyager*, both directed this episode and is the uncredited voice of the automated space station itself.

That station and its technology returned in the *Star Trek: Enterprise* novels *Uncertain Logic* (2015) & *Live by the Code* (2016).

ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax.

ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive.

It's hydrophonic
It's teledildonic
It's greased lightning!

Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.

Metric Tip

xkcd.com/3164/

YouTube video by Tom Scott The Sweater Curse and Clothing Controversies: Citation Needed 8x06

Oh no! Be careful, Avila! I literally just watched this: youtu.be/bd0HA_n2cjw

YouTube video by Rad Retro Anything Can Happen on Halloween - The Worst Witch featuring Tim Curry (HD Remaster)

My all-time favorite Halloween carol: youtu.be/SSZYVFc6BqI

Many thanks to @ifixit.com, without whose help I could not have replaced the battery in one of my two original DualSense controllers tonight! The conditions under which I did so were nigh criminal, and yet their instructions were perfect and spot-on! To many more hours of gaming!

“Razor blades” 1/3

(a) Went downstairs

(b) Put four pills (1 g paracetamol; 650 mg aspirin) in my pocket

(c) Came upstairs

(d) Pulled six pills from my pocket‽

I'll bet my sleep last night didn't benefit from **not** taking the paracetamol I'd grabbed before going to bed!

Accidentally threw myself onto the street while going about 10 MPH. Not my worst Onewheel wipeout, but my first in over two years (back when I was still learning). Some road rash & cut-up thumbs later, my body's a cornucopia of various pains—atop those inflicted by rollercoasters last Friday.

PANEL 1: ARTHUR, a yellow duck, sits in the front passenger seat of a red car that GRAMP, an older balt man with a grey mustache, drives. ARTHUR: Hey look: COWS! GRAMP: Mooa t them! You gotta moo at them! PANEL 2: The red car drives along the road with rolling green hills and purple mountains ARTHUR (from inside the car): What? GRAMP (from inside the car): Mooat them! Quick! We’re passing them! PANEL 3: ARTHUR puts his head out the rolled-down window. ARTHUR: MOO! Moo you cows! MooOooooOO! PANEL 4: ARTHUR’s eyes bug out, while GRAMP smiles gently. ARTHUR: …my god I feel ALIVE! GRAMP: It’s that connection with nature. ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller

COMIC: MoooOOooooOOO!

On the side of the road, framed by a wooden cable spool and a couple of traffic cones: a lonesome flatbed trailer, tilted backwards as to present a ramp—such as could be found in a video game for catching air or performing sick tricks.

I was Onewheeling just outside the south end of town, in the new developments, when I saw this. The GTA/Tony Hawk part of my brain almost took over!

PANEL 1: SHELDON, a ten year old with big glasses, walks on a sidewalk next to a brown fence, lined with green grass. Next to him walks ARTHUR, a yellow duck. ARTHUR: Ancient humans were TERRIFYING hunters. PANEL 2: Closer up on SHELDON and ARTHUR as he continues talking. ARTHUR: They’d get 10-20 of their pals and go chasing after big game. PANEL 3: ARTHUR continues talking alone on a panel that fades from blue to green. ARTHUR: And because humans could sweat, and animals couldn’t, they’d use PERSISTENCE HUNTING. PANEL 4: SHELDON stops walking, looking at ARTHUR, as he continues, horrified. ARTHUR: They’d chase it…it’d run away. So they’d chase it again, and it’s run away again. And the humans would do it againa nd again until the beast was exhausted. PANEL 5: Super close on ARTHUR, his eyes bulging while cringing, lit dramatically. ARTHUR: THE HUMANS WOULDN’T STOP COMING. THEY’D NEVER STOP COMING. PANEL 6: SHELDON stands, looking in to the void, while ARTHUR reacts similarly. SHELDON: Humans are basically a horror movie. ARTHUR: And now, you dinguses are persistence hunting the WHOLE PLANET. ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller

COMIC: Horrifying

My list is enormous and ever-growing. I spend most of my time trying to develop a rubric or taxonomy for how to prioritize an infinite number of things so I know what should be done first.

(Nothing gets done. The list grows longer.)