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Tweet Digest for Sunday, April 20, 2014 (GMT)

@elfrankenstino Paul, we have tentative dim sum plans in Cxtown Sunday. – 05:36 AM GMT
@surlygourmand don’t forget Bad Grandpa. – 04:22 PM GMT
@mubay they are stationed every two blocks along Grant. Some with Chinese banjo too! – 05:37 PM GMT
@misskeli this wouldn’t be a TV thread would it? – 06:24 PM GMT
Oh shouty streetcrazies of downtown San Francisco, never change – 06:35 PM GMT
@tracicle dayman, fighter of the night man – 06:50 PM GMT
It’s earthquake day! – 07:11 PM GMT
@misskeli sorry, dear heart. My Twitter client seems to have flagged that for reposting-as-failed. Ghost tweets! – 07:34 PM GMT
@elfrankenstino Paul, we have tentative dim sum plans in Cxtown Sunday. – 09:44 PM GMT
Thank you street erhu player – 10:05 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt we are in SF on the anniversary of the 1906 quake – 10:14 PM GMT
@mubay I know! The fuckers. Very repetitive. – 10:45 PM GMT
Hm, ghost echo tweets – 11:24 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Saturday, April 19, 2014 (GMT)

@arthurwyatt we are in SF on the anniversary of the 1906 quake – 12:11 AM GMT
@tracicle dayman, fighter of the night man – 06:56 AM GMT
@misskeli sorry, dear heart. My Twitter client seems to have flagged that for reposting-as-failed. Ghost tweets! – 12:39 PM GMT
@mubay I know! The fuckers. Very repetitive. – 06:05 PM GMT
@mubay they are stationed every two blocks along Grant. Some with Chinese banjo too! – 06:45 PM GMT
@misskeli this wouldn’t be a TV thread would it? – 08:16 PM GMT
Oh shouty streetcrazies of downtown San Francisco, never change – 08:31 PM GMT
@tracicle dayman, fighter of the night man – 08:43 PM GMT
It’s earthquake day! – 09:25 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt we are in SF on the anniversary of the 1906 quake – 10:39 PM GMT
Hm, ghost echo tweets – 11:12 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Friday, April 18, 2014 (GMT)

Hm, ghost echo tweets – 05:48 AM GMT
@surlygourmand don’t forget Bad Grandpa. – 05:54 AM GMT
Oh shouty streetcrazies of downtown San Francisco, never change – 06:18 AM GMT
@misskeli sorry, dear heart. My Twitter client seems to have flagged that for reposting-as-failed. Ghost tweets! – 06:29 AM GMT
Thank you street erhu player – 05:37 PM GMT
@misskeli this wouldn’t be a TV thread would it? – 06:57 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt GoT GnR concept album – 07:14 PM GMT
@surlygourmand don’t forget Bad Grandpa. – 08:35 PM GMT
@mubay they are stationed every two blocks along Grant. Some with Chinese banjo too! – 10:38 PM GMT
Oh shouty streetcrazies of downtown San Francisco, never change – 11:10 PM GMT
It’s earthquake day! – 11:29 PM GMT
@misskeli sorry, dear heart. My Twitter client seems to have flagged that for reposting-as-failed. Ghost tweets! – 11:54 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Wednesday, April 16, 2014 (GMT)

@manwhoyells and lo, the limbs of osiris were scattered far and wide over the banks of the nile – 09:32 AM GMT
@tracicle she’s sweet and I knew her before the loops. She knows what’s happening and it frustrates her. But you know, easy to distract. – 09:34 AM GMT
@tracicle set up wifi over there so I could at least try to work, but that seems unlikely. no bigs. – 09:35 AM GMT
@DanEngler I have dead people in my contacts that died before the web was invented. I think. May have to doublecheck. Did within last 5 yrs. – 09:39 AM GMT
tiny cat just snuggled her head against my chest, tucked her forearms over one of mine, closed her eyes, and fell asleep, purring loudly. – 09:58 AM GMT
@sugarfreak @kevinmhoffman on the other hand it neatly provides a cause of death – 05:18 PM GMT
@praguepainter you should do ascii-art imaging of these to bring it full circle – 05:22 PM GMT
@praguepainter ah, yeah! petscii fits the video thing. the greys reminded me of printed ascii on old newsprint greenstripe printer paper. – 06:18 PM GMT
@praguepainter here’s the quick and dirty: picascii.com – 06:19 PM GMT
@praguepainter sweet! – 07:21 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Tuesday, April 15, 2014 (GMT)

@deathmtn yes! – 12:42 AM GMT
@deathmtn mysticseaport.org – 12:43 AM GMT
@deathmtn it’s part of the noo england heritage juggernaut – 12:44 AM GMT
@deathmtn I remember Salem was fun and spooky too. We went to Plimouth Plantation for Turkey Day a few years ago too. – 12:45 AM GMT
@deathmtn Plimouth was as hallucinatory as I remembered from childhood. – 12:45 AM GMT
Day 2 with the alzheimer’s neighbor. Fifth time around the story loop. No crying yet. So far I’ve managed to nudge her off those tracks. – 09:28 PM GMT

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Tweet Digest for Monday, April 14, 2014 (GMT)

spent all winter upping my pie game. really. had no idea. none. – 05:46 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo i don’t care about spoilers, but i decided before i watched the show i won’t read the books until after the show ends. – 06:09 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone @desjardins if you think I’m clicking a blind twit pic link today you are mistaken sir – 10:10 PM GMT
@imontheradio that woman was straight outta central casting! – 10:14 PM GMT
@deathmtn Mystic Seaport! – 11:36 PM GMT

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TNG Rewatch

Over the past year, I subjected Viv to a slow-motion rematch of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which was well worthwhile. I learned that I had missed huge sections of s07, presumably due to being in a band in 1994, so many of those episodes were entirely new to me. Overall the series held up quite well, persistent issues with overall interior set design choices and alien effects costuming aside. Hotel beige and forehead appliqués!

We moved on to the movies, having started the TNG project after watching the TOS films, and here I am sorry to report just as had been the case on initial viewings on release, the four TNG movies are pretty terrible, mostly for reasons of character adjustment (Picard is not the character seen on the small screen) and big-screen movie drama (wholesale starship wreckage). The films also feature the sloppy in-universe detail management characteristic of Brannon Braga and Rick Berman’s post-TNG series, Voyager and Enterprise.

That said, there are moments in all four films that have stayed with me, notably Data’s final act of self-sacrifice.

We’re weighing what’s next. It’s baseball season now, and both Game of Thrones and Mad Men are running concurrently for the first time for us, so the issue is not pressing. I’m giving some consideration to trying DS9 again, a series that clearly succeeded on its’ own terms to a greater degree than the other two post-TNG shows, but which lost me as an audience member on initial run due to longer story arcs and an insistent focus on a made-up religion. I don’t pay attention to real-life religions, so I could never see a reason to care about something as far from my areas of interest and experience as a fictional one. We’ll see.