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Perfect 1990’s TV show.

He just casually invented cryptocurrency as a plot device.

I had a long flight so I took along Reamde.

I’d read it twice before, but damned if it didn’t hook me up again. I got to the first airport around 10 am and didn’t get home until 3 am. Saved my sanity.

For the uninitiated, Reamde involves the kidnapped niece of a billionaire game maker; the game is really fun and also a money laundering operation. There are terrorists, Right Wing militias, undercover spies, demented science fiction authors, and a bear skin rug.

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I’ve been telling people to read ‘Cryptonomicon’ for decades.

It tells two interwoven stories. Back in WW2 the grandfather is involved in proactive missions to keep the Nazis from learning the Allies had broken their codes, and in the late 1990’s the grandson is trying to start an online bank

relevant

https://youtu.be/zyjK1CpM8JQ

Star Trek TOS episode ‘Balance of Terror’ is basically an updated submarine movie.

That’s not a put down. They had to teach people how to watch science fiction.

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“The Flight Of The Phoenix” is a great old-style Hollywood movie. A plane crashes in the African desert and the crew and passengers have to find a way to get home. Exactly the kind of movie Roddenberry would have been thinking of when he pitched TOS.

https://youtu.be/V0hIoLNecqI

I like Stan Lee’s line. A fanboy asked him who would win a fight between two particular characters.

“Whoever the writer decides would win.”

Also, the show can’t possibly keep up with advances in science and changes in the real world.

I gave you an upvote because I came to ask the same thing.

We’ve wandered into a bad neighborhood…

I was just thinking that there are no scenes of Scotty and McCoy sharing a glass or two and telling tales in TOS. A shameful dereliction

A man owned a music shop, and his lover owned the flower shop next door.

One day she came by and asked if he’d like to have some flowers to brighten up his store.

“Yes, please. Put roses on the piano and tulips on my organ.”

[old, old, old joke]

This should be used in all areas.

I used to work in public health and I’d see people who had certifications [not college degrees] talking down to patients, and top doctors who were happy to explain things.

‘An’ is used before any vowel. An opposite, an electrician, an icehouse, an apple.

The biggest change in America between TOS and TNG was Watergate. Even if people thought that Johnson was wrong to go into Vietnam, they mostly believed that the government was trying to do the right thing.

I had to double check. Thought that it was a ‘coroner’ wagon.

TIL

Thanks

Not canon, but there was a fan theory that the changes occurred after the tribbles were transported aboard the Klingon ship in TOS.

Cryogenically frozen after a boob job may be the most underused trope of the 1990s.