Curb Your Enthusiasm (for Latinum)

Playlist if you want to hear a specific theme.

• 0:33 Star Trek: The Original Series - Theme
• 4:34 Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Main Title + Klingon Theme + Ilia's Theme
• 12:05 Star Trek: The Next Generation - Suite from "The Inner Light"
• 16:12 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Main Title + End Title
• 28:03 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Theme
• 30:20 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Main Title
• 34:35 Star Trek: Generations - Main Title
• 38:38 Star Trek: Nemesis - Main Title + "Odds and Ends"
• 46:48 Star Trek: Voyager
• 49:18 Star Trek: The Motion Picture - "The Enterprise"
• 55:20 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - "Stealing the Enterprise"
• 1:04:19 Star Trek: First Contact - Main Title
• 1:07:28 Star Trek Beyond - "Night on the Yorktown"
• 1:12:20 Star Trek Into Darkness - End Title
• 1:19:15 Star Trek: The Original Series - Theme

Bonus: An orchestral performance of the melody from "The Inner Light": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF5Z7bWAhXk

In VOY S1E05 "Phage", Neelix's lungs are stolen by the Vidiians, and The Doctor creates a set of holographic lungs operated by the holo emitters installed in sickbay.

The procedure is successful, but due to technical limitations, that places two very heavy restrictions on Neelix:

1. He has to have his movement completely restrained as the computer cannot compensate quickly enough to keep the holo-lungs in alignment with his internal physilogy
2. Like The Doctor, he cannot leave sickbay even if the computer could process fast enough to keep his holographic lungs aligned

Potentially, Neelix could also be transported to the holodeck with his holo-lungs intact, but given its frequent malfunctions, it may not be a wise action unless there's no other alternative. He would also still need to be restrained to keep the lungs in place.

The mobile emitter, though introduced two seasons later in Season 3's "Future's End", might alleviate both of those restrictions and have applications in field medicine and other emergency care.

Being 29th century technology, it may very well be fast and responsive enough to keep the holographic organs aligned with the body's nervous, respiratory, and circulatory systems without requring the patient to be immobilized. Additionally, it would give the patient unrestricted mobility without confining them to a location equipped with holo emitters.

Given that by the time of PIC in 2401 the mobile emitter has been reverse engineered and reproduced, it would be logical to explore its application as an emergency organ transplant given that the procedure was successfully proven by the crew of Voyager.

If we ever want a Star Trek horror series, boy do I have a plot line for you.

Not my OC

Edit: As suggested in the comments, shaking my fist and yelling at it has, thus far, proven unsuccessful. The cloud appears to be an obstinate one.

Weather's dull, right??

It's currently 72 degrees with a high of only 82 in the middle of July. Humidity is a comfortable 76%. Sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky, I don't foresee having to run the A/C at all today, and my house's PV system has been getting a great charge all morning.

This sure beats the 99 degree days with 99% humidity and heavy clouds last week.

My only complaint is I don't have today off work.

Not a large fee. Just something like the local equivalent of $10 USD.

The deposit sits in escrow during a probationary period while the new account holder has to prove they're here with good intentions. If the account starts spamming, advertising, trolling, or plugging their slop-coded garbage, they get banned and forfeit the deposit to the instance they signed up with. If they interact in good faith for the "probationary" period without showing signs of being an LLM bot / gaming the system / "karma farming", the deposit gets refunded in full and they exit the probationary period.

If they don't interact enough to prove their intentions here a good, the deposit still gets refunded in full but the account gets banned.

This would virtually eliminate drive-by spam and trolls while also funding instances and encouraging positive engagement.

Is it feasible? Probably not. Is this an idea likely to be popular? Nope, otherwise I wouldn't be posting it here. Do I think this is a good idea? Yep.

Image is a graph from the electric company showing my usage for a day this week. From 6:30 AM to 8:30 PM we used absolutely no utility power.

I'm almost at the three week mark for having this system up and running. The first two weeks I only had 3 KW of PV input but I added another 5 panels to bring it up to 4 KW last week. It's also still running from a transfer switch in "off grid" mode because I don't yet have the prep work done to move my breaker box and start moving circuits to it. (That means I'm either on full solar+battery or utility, no mixing or load sharing).

Once I get it wired in fully, I'm probably going to switch to time-of-use billing. Unfortunately, I can't do that ahead of time because rather than just making off-peak use cheaper, it makes peak usage (M-F 7am to 9pm) extremely expensive while off peak dirt cheap. I wish there was a middle option, but it is what it is.

I'm also being very conservative with my battery usage since I want to have at least 50% in "reserve" to cover power outages. That's especially important during these heat waves. We could easily run 24/7 but would have to take a day off every so often to just let it charge back up since my system is a bit too small to cover all our usage indefinitely (at least if we want to run the A/C for comfort, that is).

Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.

Everything in the set was real. We couldn’t fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. All told, $875,000 worth of computer hardware loaned by Silicon Graphics, $350,000 worth from Apple and some $500,000 in additional hardware and software went into equipping both the set and off-stage control room.

The Ars article is just a summary of this: https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html