This company is a scam! Don’t ever work with them! They’ll rob you blind and your ignore calls. Totally unprofessional!

Yes’ Machine Messiah on Drama, the odd Yes album lacking Jon Anderson shortly after the departure of Rick Wakeman, resulting in the vocals being replaced by Thomas Horn harmonizing with a vocoder and Goeff Downes showing off he was up to snuff when it came to replacing Wakeman.

So blanch, toss in oil, broil on a sheet pan, then toss in the fried garlic oil? I can try that, thanks!!

I’m like so inappropriately bitter about that last fact.

There’s an incredibly simple dish at a local soup dumpling restaurant that me and my partner adore and it’s fucking dry fried green beans. All you do is fry blanched green beans until they blister, then stir fry some garlic in oil until its just toasty and toss the beans in that oil with some salt.

At the restaurant, it’s amazing. I can make it at home, but it always lacks that ever so brilliant wok hei flavor that really completes the dish. That smoky, garlicky flavor on cooked, yet still fresh and crisp green beans is perfection.

I want a stove that can do it dammit.

I’m so fascinated by induction stove cooking. At first I was really hesitant because I’ve used a variety of electric stoves and they never work great, but I’ve seen people cook with a wok on one and I’m kinda sold.

The point is moot because I rent, but if I ever have the chance to pick what stove I’ll be cooking on, I’ll deffo be considering it.

I need this hack for my wok cooking when is she available for contract work?

Gah you are so right with that. Between the first Trill episode and the non-binary planet episode… just a rough time for queer Trek. At least we got some good stuff with DS9, though even the head writer wishes they pushed the envelope a little further.

I’m hopeful we can get some better stuff out of Strange New Worlds. While Disco had more representation, I did not care for that show for a myriad of other reasons.

Yeah, that line always felt kinda strange. I rationalized it by thinking in the Star Trek world, there was no violent revolution, but more of a pseudo-Posadist realization of global unity in the wake of the third world war and First Contact with the Vulcans, thus Mao’s axiom being less applicable.

Or, more realistically, Standards and Practices needed them to disavow what was being described as terrorism in that particular episode.

Same. I get the sugar free ones. It just tastes good.

I mean, it’s cool as hell, it’s just unlike Captain Jean-Luc Picard to make quips like that or for Star Trek characters to so blatantly advocate socialism. The UFP is certainly a post-scarcity socialist utopia, but I think the conceit in the writers room is that they are so established in their utopia that they don’t speak of it in such direct terms because it’s established. That, and the sensibilities of the late 80’s would make such a statement provocative on network television. Heck, Jean-Luc even at one point refutes Mao’s idea that political power stems from the barrel of a gun.

But I could see them having more leeway in a video game.

Have a Gatorade before and after you are drinking. No more hangovers, or at least drastically reduced headaches. I use Brode electrolyte pills, but it’s really the same thing, the pills are just easier to carry in the pocket to the club.

Is this actually a quote from Star Trek: The Next Generation: Final Unity?

I loved that game as a child but I couldn’t get past any of the puzzles, being 6 years old.

Ahhh see I’ve just made different associations. Vodka redbull is my go-to first drink and sometimes only drink when I’m going out dancing from midnight to dawn. I used to be able to do that without any stimulants, but in my mid thirties I need a little boost to help get me going before the dance endorphins kick in.

I keep some decaf coffee around just to occasionally make coffee amaretto after a rich meal. It’s really quite a good after dinner drink! Booze aside, the flavors just pair very well. You can try other nut liqueurs, too.

We lead very different lives, my friend. Coffee amaretto might be more your speed?

You start the night with a vodka redbull (or a Cosmo with redbull is my preference) and go from there. That’ll keep ya going 😘

In my personal experience, I found meeting people in person a far more fruitful dating method than online dating. I was fairly successful in both. I’m not particularly attractive but I’m rather charismatic and I found online dating resulting in a lot more flubs than meeting someone with the intent of simply making a new friend based on shared interests and finding something more growing from that. The online dating did give me a lot of fun dates and sexual experiences, though.

But perhaps take it all with a grain of salt because I ended up with an old friend from high school when we moved in together to save money on rent.

I’m not saying it can’t work, I just see a lot of lonely people wondering why the apps don’t work for them yet try nothing else.

Online dating is great for hook ups, but joining in person hobby groups is better for making friends that might turn into something more.

Wait until you hear about Christmas