#nerd crap

As I write this the new year has only just arrived.   I’m hearing less in the way of improvised explosions this year, as I generally look out my front door and am greeted by people with large metal cans spewing forth sparks.  I assume this is done to rub canned sparks in the faces of previous generations who had to ration sparks for the war effort.

Echo was up and awake longer than ever before - she usually crashes long before the ball drops, or the chip is dipped, or the hounds are released, or whatever the tradition was that year.   We celebrated by watching an episode of Reading Rainbow where LeVar Burton showed off the sets if Star Trek: The Next Generation because it was on the season 2 collection through which we are currently suffering.   Earlier in the night, it was “The Outrageous Okana” (an episode best described as self-insert fan fiction at its worst, with Joe Piscopo, but I repeat myself), and “Loud as a Whisper,” where any commentary I would make would pale to what these guys did.

But, that’s not why you’re here.  No, you’re here to read about cookies, or failing that the sinful activities of the boudoir.  I ate all the cookies, and I was wrapped up in plastic pallet wrap, strapped in the Nova Pro, dropped, and then visited by the Magic Wand (with router speed control attachment, sold separately) until I was a moaning, screaming mess.  The setting on the Nova Pro 100 was a new one to me, with tons of lights and barely any sounds.   Usually these things go the other way - I don’t really register the lights, but the audio is present and very difficult to remember.  In this case there were low sounds but they were difficult to make out.  The light pattern was similarly difficult to recall, but there were a few points where it felt like more than one color was blinking in rapid succession, disorienting me while Echo said... something.  I don’t remember what.  The results were enjoyable and I was more than a little wobbly afterward.  She had to drive us to dinner, and I need to find a good way to make this kind of activity up to her.  I don’t think any level of confection would constitute an equivalent, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try.

eD! and Val talk about a bunch of stuff, but that’s not important — what’s important is why this episode wasn’t posted yesterday.

It’s because of Dave. We all knew that, in our hearts, but it feels good to come out and say it, you know?

If you’d like to tell him how big a jerk he is, feel free to tell him on Twitter @DaveintheStudio. Thanks!

She lived in the desert nearly her whole life. We see her exploring ships, getting parts, getting mugged in this dangerous environment, while barley surviving. Of course she’d learn these survival skills. Luke lived in a house and couldn’t get his power converters because his uncle said so.

Good at Stuff =/= Marry Sue

She wasn’t all that skilled with a blaster. or get facts about the Millenium Falcon right. She was about as good as anyone else in the movie with a blaster. She’s combat trained with a stick. At one point in her life she probably used a blaster.

Jedi Skills? Luke didn’t really have the opportunity to use the force as often as Rey until later movies. Rey had toys of Rebels and was a fan of Jedis. She knew what Jedis could do. All she used the force for is to mind trick a nameless storm trooper. Then over power a reckless unstable sith poser who couldn’t handle his emotions and was bleeding from a shot in the stomach and escaping an exploding building.