Since that Parnell is most recently known for Jerry in Rick and Morty, I feel like we’re missing out on “Star Trek: Jerry”

Picture it: Alpha Quadrant, 3070. Captain Jerry Smith’s is one of the few ships to survive The Burn.

Captain Jerry: I just kept maintaining course and speed at full impulse, and it just kept working.

The Doctor didn’t consider that in “Phage” and I only recall VOY using the transporter buffer trick once when they had to hide the telepathic crew members when they’re traveling through Devore space.

the so-called “First Lady of Star Trek” recorded an entire library of phonetic sounds, allowing her voice to be used in future products outside of Star Trek and, quite possibly, as the computer voice in Star Trek: Discovery.

Source: https://nerdist.com/article/the-late-majel-barrett-may-voice-star-trek-discoverys-computer/

Alternatively…

Lizard babies, space cheese that makes the ship sick, yeah, I could see this going down in VOY.

Linemen are some crazy hard workin’ people … I hope their off days are filled with good whiskey and agreeable women or men as needed.

Definitely. In modern society, they’re right up there with firemen, paramedics, etc as far as “thank you for your service” goes.

When they’re working near me, I always offer them cold drinks or snacks. That’s something I started doing during the earlier mentioned two week outage when they finally got to our area. The temps were in the mid 90s, the air was swampy, and I was roasting in shorts and a t-shirt. They’re out there working in heavy protective gear. I appreciate them as much as I do not envy them which is a LOT.

rained like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock,

I absolutely love this brand new sentence. Or, at least that’s one I’ve never heard before.

Sustained straight-line high winds scare the bejeezus out of me. There was a derecho in my area many years ago. Didn’t seem too awful at the time and in the midst of it, but when it was over, we were without power in a heatwave for almost two weeks. Fun times.

Glad your electric co is on the ball.

That’s really cool. Must have missed that post.

Is that reading from a rain gauge or rain barrel or what?

I’ve got 4x55 gallon rain barrels and have wanted to add a sensor so I could check how full they were from Home Assistant. So curious where you’re getting your graph data and if that’s something that might help me with mine.

I read the punchline as “Frasier: In Space!” and would watch that.

(Jealous Scotty noises)

I thought I was above enjoying all of the really campy episodes, but apparently not. I thoroughly enjoyed “Rascals” just for the Guinan / Ro Laren sass.

If they took Subspace Rhapsody to Broadway, I would happily make that my first show.

and That Puppet Episode

I was ambivalent about “Those Old Scientists” and bringing the LD cast in as live-action characters. Ended up loving it.

I was ambivalent about “Subspace Rhapsody” and a musical episode in general. Also loved it.

I was initially ambivalent about the puppet episode, but if history is anything to go by, bring it on.

Check this out: https://hackaday.com/2026/07/20/old-ssds-find-new-life-as-game-cartridges/

Just saw it on Hack a Day and remembered this post. It’s using old SSDs instead of SD cards but is basically what you’re describing.

And they’re using auto launch scripts like I mentioned in my first comment and a whitelist to address security.

Riker could have gone for a real power move in the last panel:

“That was a compliment, Doctor. You’re the beard here. And yes”.

I dunno. It’s at least a tie with the time he got to eject Solok from the baseball game. Look how happy he is there.

That was the first fix I made after we bought our current house.

It was noted during the inspection that it didn’t work, so I bought a replacement. When I started to install the new one, I took the vent cover off the old one and noticed there was a 2-prong plug inside that was unplugged. Plugged that in, and the fan started working.

Apparently previous owner just didn’t like the fan or something? There’s clearly nothing wrong with it because it’s been working perfectly since I “fixed” it 7 years ago. And if/when it does go out, I’ve still got the replacement I bought way back then.

lol. My guess would be either really, really long and covers every possible scenario or extremely short and brutally honest.

I looked but there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward way to do that in Linux. I was thinking a udev rule but it would be clunky since the low level details for media like SD cards aren’t available. At best, maybe a generic rule that mounts it and looks for an autorun.sh or something, but that’s basically reinventing Autoplay on Windows and would have the same security implications.

I read Hack-a-Day frequently, and I’ve come across several projects that use NFC readers so you can tap a card to play specific songs or start playlists. Maybe something like that but launch a specific game instead?

e.g. https://hackaday.com/2025/03/31/a-music-box-commanded-by-nfc-tags/