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Captain's Blog - Stardate July 30, 2008 »

Had an interesting discussion with Mr Data today, concerning the perception of color - he wished to know how humans came to agreement on what red is, or blue, or green - or anything in between - es

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 29, 2008 »

Spent the evening playing poker with my senior officers - an enlightening experience, I must say -"Baby needs a new pair of shoes" - "Too rich for my blood", "Papa's got a

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 26, 2008 »

Well, I'm here to tell you that the pen is not, in fact, mightier than the sword - that theory was dis-proven on multiple occasions in Holodeck 1 today(at pixellated Commander Riker's expense, unfo

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 25, 2008 »

Spent the evening wrestling with Zeno's arrow paradox, in which he states that for motion to be occurring, an object must change the position which it occupies - he gives an example of an arrow in

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 22, 2008 »

I have become trapped in the Holodeck again - I was halfway through a very enjoyable program in which I was an 18th-century archaeologist stumbling upon some fascinating pre-Colombian artefacts, wh

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 20, 2008 »

Back in harness on the bridge of The Enterprise - and not a moment too soon, to be perfectly honest - rural France, despite its many charms, was a little too bucolic for my tastes - plus whenever I

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 19, 2008 »

Back on earth, climbing in The Pyrenees - 150-million year old rock under my feet(that's almost as old as some of number two's jokes...) is enough to make me remember my place - a nano-second on th

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 18, 2008 »

Back on earth, in the bosom of my family - I was just joshing about the light-speed effects - that was all proven to be wrong two centuries ago - in fact, I lifted most of the ideas from "Hitc

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 17, 2008 »

Four hundred parsecs from Alpha Centauri, Earthbound again at Warp factor 9 - the only problem with light-speed travel is that every time we return to Earth, our previous families have died again -

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 16, 2008 »

Tonight, I again enjoyed the dubious pleasure of sitting through one of Mr Data's poetry readings - it was almost as excruciating as reading an issue of "Poetry" magazine from 2008 - but

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 15, 2008 »

Since leaving the Calderon system, all has been relatively quiet - which has allowed me to take up a new and intriguing study of a peculiar phenomenon/fixation which has long fascinated me - that o

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 13, 2008 »

Back in NC after three weeks - trying to get everything back in order - but you don't want to hear about that boring stuff, plus it's kinda flitty, and it just kills me, if you really want to know

Captain's Blog, Stardate July 12, 2008  »

Back in North Carolina.   

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 11, 2008 »

Listening to Jeff Buckley sing "Hallelujah" on the the little portable I-Pod player I brought - then Edith Piaf, then The Animals, then Eddie & The Hot-Rods, then Leonard Cohen and Je

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 10, 2008 »

Another belting-hot day in Soufriere and we're just hanging out by the pool - tonight we're going for dinner at a restaurant which serves the hottest Vindaloo curry I've ever had - we're talking bl

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 9, 2008  »

A blistering hot, sunny day in St.

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 8, 2008  »

I have been attempting to capture the spirit of St. Lucia in prose(as opposed to poetry) - I have a modest effort in progress.

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 5, 2008  »

Still in St. Lucia - Tristi couldn't fly because she has a middle-ear infection, so we're going to have to wait at least 96 hours before she can think about that.

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 3, 2008  »

Man, I wish I had found this place two weeks ago....I can smoke, drink beer and look at the forest and the ocean while I write this..and even though I'm not staying here, it's such a ritzy place, t

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 2, 2008 -(Stuck in the Anse Chastanet Hotel bar during a thunderstorm, I overhear a conversation) »

Getting to write this today was a bit of an epic struggle.

Captain's Blog - Stardate July 1, 2008 »

Another beautiful day in St. Lucia..

Captain's Blog - Stardate June 30, 2008 »

Second week in beautiful St. Lucia, and the rain has eased, so I can work on transforming my sausage-white skin into something a little less anemic.

Captain's Blog - Stardate June 28, 2008 »

Today I'm looking like a smallpox victim - courtesy, apparently, of an invisible (or very stealthy) insect affectionately known as the Sunfly - the little bastards really do a number on a pasty cra

Captain's Blog - Stardate June 27, 2008 »

Back in Soufriere - getting here involves driving 2 miles on the edge of a precipice, so I'm trying to limit that particular experience - plus the Caribbean rum is taking its toll a bit today - may

Captain's Blog - Stardate June 20, 2008 »

So Israel is saber-rattling over Iran - one wonders if this is at the behest of our current administration, hoping either that someone else is going to do their dirty work for them, or for an excus

Captain's Blog - Stardate June 19, 2008 »

I hear that Barack Obama is considering John Edwards for the VP slot.