Back home on the Isle of Wight, I knew a girl, D. Smith. Her mother's maiden name was Smith, and it amused me greatly that her parents could have hyphenated their surnames into Smith-Smith when they got married.
D got engaged to a young man by the name of T Smith, thus opening up the possibility of a Smith-Smith-Smith union... an opportunity passed up by D, but not by her brother, J. J married miss C Smith, so they could have been Mr J and Mrs C Smith-Smith-Smith. However, in the interest of minimising paperwork and avoiding ridicule, they all stuck as Smith. What a waste.
Back when I was doing my Theology course, the 2 hours of travel on a Monday morning left me with a lot of time to think. My friends and I once spent a happy hour working out who I'd have to marry and divorce in order to get the name Anna Rose-Smith-Smith-Rose. I will most likely never get that name, and this saddens me.
I've recently been reading a lot by Wil Wheaton. Here's a sample of his style, as he recounts his take as an adult watching himself in Star Trek as a teenager.
Riker looks around the bridge, sees all the commissioned officers he has available to him, does a quick scan of the ship's manifest to see who's on duty . . . and decides to send Wesley Freakin' Crusher to "discreetly" sneak a peek at Data. Worf says, "Uh, excuse me, Commander, but since I'm kind of in the security department and all, and I'm a big old Klingon, shouldn't maybe I go check this out?"
Riker replies, "I'm not going to lie to you, Worf: we all know that if there's anything funky going on down there, you're just going to get your ass kicked. So I'm sending the Boy Wonder and his giant brain instead."
Wesley jumps up from his console and shouts, "Wheee! I'm in Starfleet!" as he skips to the turbolift.
Read more of his memories on the set of The Next Generation here, I thoroughly recommend it!
My recent journeys through his blog have convinced me that he's a remarkably intelligent, humble man with a keen sense of humour, so I've bought his book 'Just a Geek'. Expect a review on that soon, I'm certainly enjoying it so far!
Today's interesting thing is WebUrbanist. I've been browsing for a bit being amazed at bookshelves - sounds dull, I know, but I'm very impressed with the originality and ingenuity of the designs. This one, for example, is built into a staircase:
There's plenty more on convertible furniture and recycled art, if you're into that sort of thing.
PS. I see from the poll that you guys are ALL ABOUT the button-clicking, so expect more polls whenever I can think of something!
I saw that bookcase & a few other pictures of it a while back. I've had my heart set on it since then. I mean, it's two of my favourite things put into one, man! :O I've told John that we have to have one of those in our house someday. :P
ReplyDeleteEver seen "Stand by Me"? Wil's greatest acting part.
ReplyDeleteI think I agree with your assessment, based on my limited knowledge of the gent. Any failings in the role of Wesley weren't so much his fault as the fault of the people producing TNG who thought what the show needed was a bratty super-geek.
For similar reasons I forgive Bonnie Langford for her tenure on Dr Who in the 80s.
Well, you know, I never even found him that annoying - as I said recently, I was far too young to do so. But Wil has since explained in detail all over the internet WHY Wesley was such a pain, bless him, so I suppose it must be true!
ReplyDeleteOh and I haven't seen stand by me, but I'd like to.
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