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In my continuing quest to play all the games I picked up from Kickstarter, I attempted a solo game of Dinosaur Island.
I got through 3 turns before I decided to abandon the game.
It plays pretty well, I just kept making mistakes and missing steps.
And yes, it does feel like Jurassic Park meets worker placement.
And while solo play is okay, I’d rather try this with a group.
I spent a ridiculous amount of time today going though some stacks of old CDs that I had not transferred to my iPod/iPad.
I came across a lot of 90s music that I haven’t listened to since, well, the 90s, of bands that I have no interest in listening to now, nor can I recall any of their songs, like Everclear, Frente, Belly, Big Audio Dynamite, and others.
All this started because I discovered that I did not have the D2: The Mighty Ducks soundtrack in my library.
I ended up adding like 30+ CDs to the library, including some Disney CDs, some MTV Unplugged stuff, all three Austin Powers movies music, and some other movie stuff.
Also, John Williams Olympic music, and the national anthems of 16 countries.
I bought a lot of odd CDs over the years.
A while ago I added the sound effects from Star Trek The Original series.
And how did I also not have Paula Abdul’s “Forever Your Girl” in my library?
I must have started doing this at about 10 this morning, and 6 hours later I realized that I was hungry.
I ended up driving out to Five Guys for a burger and fries.
Currently I’m finishing up the day with the Warriors game, and learning how to play Dinosaur Island.
February 9, 1968: premiere date of the Star Trek episode ‘Return to Tomorrow’
Telepathic aliens take control of Kirk and Spock’s bodies with the intention to build new, mechanized bodies for themselves.
One of my favorite episodes, if only for this moment:
As cheesy as Shatner can get, this is my favorite of all of Kirk’s speeches, in all of Star Trek.
I love that they copied it in Free Enterprise.
It’s also cool to see Diana Muldaur in her first appearance on Star Trek:
And of course, smiling Spock:
I’ve found myself in this or a similar pose over the years. Maybe influenced subconsciously by this episode?
I managed to find my copy of this book yesterday.
I searched for it mainly because of a two-page spread that was being shared around social media on Monday.
The configuration in the left column, center row looks like the ship we see in the Solo trailer.
In the book, the Falcon was named Stellar Envoy when it was seen in Revenge of the Sith.
It will be interesting to see how they go about explaining whether or not this is still true, and how the Falcon eventually looks the way that we’re all familiar with from the Original Trilogy.
Again, I may be a little excited about this upcoming movie.
June 1977: After I had seen Star Wars for the first time, and before I would ever know what kind of impact it would have on me, all I knew was that I wanted to be Han Solo.
About a year or so later, Star Wars books started to appear, and among them was Han Solo at Star’s End, the first of the original Han Solo Trilogy, by the late Brian Daley.
Since then, I had always imagined that they would make a movie about Han Solo and his early adventures.
Flash forward almost 40 years:
Anyone who says that no one wanted this movie made has never met me. This, and the Jawas film/TV series, are two things that I’ve wanted from Star Wars since first seeing it when I was 10 years old.
I sound biased, but this could be the best Star Wars film since Rogue One.
You might say I’m more than a little excited about it.
I must have been busy. Or lazy. Both?
I spent part of my weekend cleaning stuff around the house, like the upstairs bathroom, among other locations.
I’ve been hitting my elliptical for about 10-20 minutes for the past week. I hope to make it back up to 30+ minutes, if not more.
I caught up with my TV watching, the CW DC shows are surprisingly keeping me interested. Black Lightning is good, so far.
I used my instant pot TWICE in one weekend, making some chicken in salsa thing, and pork ribs. Both turned out pretty good.
More games that I’ll (maybe) eventually play came in.
More porgs were acquired. And dice.
And it’s almost February. Yikes.
I’ve been kicking this around in my own head for half the day, after there were no Oscar nominations for this movie.
As great as I thought this movie was, it was no Oscar contender, except maybe in some of the technical categories, like Best Costume Design or Best Cinematography. But they were snubbed there, too.
I dunno. Maybe the other genre films that did get nominated deserved it more.
And it’s not like the Oscars mean anything in the grand scheme of “what Chris likes.”
Raiders of the Lost Ark lost to Chariots of Fire for Best Picture in 1981, after all.
January 19, 1968: premiere date of Star Trek episode ‘The Immunity Syndrome’.
The crew of the Enterprise encounters an energy-draining space creature.
The space amoeba!
In which we also learn that there was a starship manned solely by Vulcans.
WAS.
Spock has a bad reaction to the death of over 400 Vulcans.
Eventually, a Shuttlecraft is sent in (with Spock aboard) to gather information about this organism, and the Enterprise crew end up destroying it with a probe armed with an anti-matter warhead.
This episode is not to be confused with the Space: 1999 episode of the same name:
While on a survey of a planet to replenish food and water on Moonbase Alpha, an alien form attacks a crewman who seemingly goes mad; after a brief struggle with the crewman, Tony Verdeschi is attacked by the alien as well. Koenig and the survey party must find Tony and help him regain his senses before the madness kills him and solve the mystery of the alien life form. All their technology breaks down, preventing them from leaving or receiving aid; all food – native and their own supply – become toxic.
