Cooking and Star Trek

I wrote a post a few years back about the Food in Star Trek and the reason I have been thinking about that topic at all is because I am still preserving food. I usually start preserving in the late summer on into the fall, but this year I am still going well into the winter! Sometimes while I am working, I turn on old episodes of Star Trek, TNG, and DS9, and I wonder how replicated food tastes with all dishes consisting of  resequenced protein molecules masquerading as a sandwich, a soup, breakfast, you name it! Yuk, is all I have to say, I would rather eat a Cardassian Regova Egg than replicated food, wait, maybe not, I am not sure, but I do enjoy real ingredients and making my own sauces, salsas and dishes in general.  I would not mind trying Bajoran food and Hasperat in particular, I do like it when the food of the worlds of the Star Trek Universe are introduced to us, and I am glad they cover the subject because in a ship or on a station, food and water are genuine concerns, living on dried foods would not be healthy. On Star Trek: Enterprise, they even have a chef, and Voyager has Neelix a Delta Quadrant native who prepares creative dishes with spices from the worlds in that area! Cool! I always laugh when I think of Red Alert Chili, great name!  Anyways, you can peruse the list of Star Trek food and enjoy!

LOL! I Love Creative Cartoons!

I love cats and lolspeak  plus I love math (yes it is true I do love math) so in summation you have a fantastic cartoon! You can follow more of the antics of the Laugh-Out-Loud cats at the HOBOTOPIA blog.

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Superheroes and Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast cancer awareness is an important topic and one I am very familiar with because I work in a medical clinic and come in contact with many women who have concerns, symptoms, and even cancer. Last month when the Superheroe campaign was making the rounds through all of the sci fi blogs and interesting sites like BoingBoing, I liked it, found it interesting, and loved the drawings. I believe that it is good to reach as wide an audience as possible, because breast cancer is a real issue and information and education is the best defense against this disease. I have seen women diagnosed with breast cancer and take the steps necessary to fight it, I have seen other women who denied anything was wrong and ended up dying, and I have seen women who would rather keep their new BMW luxury auto than sell it and have a surgery. When did things start to have more value than our own lives? I have seen in over the almost two decades I have been working with doctors and patients, a real decline in the self-respect and respect in general of patients towards their own health, the health of their children, and towards health-care workers. Most are rude, complain, and want everything for free, and many people disagree with me, but nothing in life is free and health-care is not a right. If it is a right, then it should be all or nothing: free medical school, free university, free food, free water, free shelter, free clothes, etc. Then we would be like Earth in the Star Trek Universe: we would have one government, everything controlled, no money, and humans would work to better themselves, sounds good, except, how to rid ourselves of greed, jealousy, murder, rape, abuse, control, war, etc. Well,  I have wandered quite a bit from our Superheroes, however, I hope that in this New Year 2012, we can all find a little superheroe in us all and have self-respect and then respect for others, no matter how difficult times are and care for our health.

Spend New Year's Eve With Jupiter and Mars!

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If you plan on ushering in the New Year, 2012, dancing under the night sky (and it is clear and visible!), you will spend it with Jupiter and Mars. Perfect! Put a Frank Sinatra or Kaye Ballard record on the stereo (ok I am dating myself  but so what, once over the hill it doesn't matter how far!) and play "Fly Me to the Moon"......
Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss, me...

Ahhh, what could be more perfect!
Happy New Year, a New Year filled with whatever your heart desires and of course Science Fiction!!!!

Science Fiction Musings

Every December I become busy and have little time to pay attention to science fiction books, shows, movies, or science news in general. This year I am taking time off and I am going to catch up on my favorite sci fi blogs, read some science news, read a book, and watch some shows. The only complaint I have about the SYFYLA..com (sci fi channel in Latin America) is that I do not like the ghost hunter type reality shows. I realize that budgets are tight and shows expensive to make so I would prefer re-runs of good science fiction shows instead of ghost hunts, I would not mind one reality show a day but all day every day!!!( I know I am exaggerating but it seems like it!) Really, the quality of the channel has dropped and I hope they can do better next year because I do enjoy sci fi shows and movies.
In the meantime, I found this great link from Bad Astronomy and hope you enjoy it and have a peaceful and safe holiday season.
The Top 24 Deep Space Pictures of 2011.

Moves Like Jabba

I listen to Maroon 5 and their hit song  "Moves Like Jagger" when I ride my bike, so when I heard this parody of that song I practically did a spit-take, it is a really clever take on Star Wars. Another parody is of the Enrique Iglesias song "Tonight (I'm lovin' You)" and is ok because it combines Star Wars and Star Trek in a weird but funny way.
Thanks to Topless Robot for alerting me to this video!
Enjoy!

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Halloween Marathon

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Last year I enjoyed a marathon of Saw I- IV  but this year for Halloween evening  I will be watching Halloween with none other than Michael Myers. I am not sure what happened with Halloween III, it really has nothing to do with the main premise of the franchise and almost seems like a cheesy second rate episode of Stargate  with symbiotes taking over the US via television and costumes,  but Halloween IV picks up where II left off and we have the classic scare fest that worked before. Really, if you have a formula that works, stick with it, build the story and the characters a little, that is all I ask! I still want to watch Saw and I love Hellboy so we will see how much time I have to fit in some classic horror films.
Happy Halloween to all!