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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • If it’s the USA, then “iced tea” may actually mean “sweet tea” (an American South tradition), which is often prepared something like this:

    • bring 1/2 gallon (1.9L) water to a boil
    • place 8 large black tea bags in a 1 gallon (3.8L) pitcher
    • pour boiling water over the tea bags in the pitcher
    • steep 10-15 minutes, then remove tea bags from the pitcher
    • add 1 dry cup (220g) granulated sugar
    • stir the slurry until sugar is dissolved
    • fill the pitcher to the top with ice cubes
    • wait 20 minutes for ice to chill and dilute the tea, gently stir again
    • serve

    It may be a stronger tea, but so much sugar gets added (probably 3x what would be used to sweeten tea served hot) that you typically don’t notice any bitterness.











  • I think the controversy of Janeway’s choice is largely due to the show’s failure to address the orchid of it all.

    As I see it, Tuvix is not “Tuvok + Neelix,” but also isn’t “something new.” I maintain that Tuvix is primarily the orchid, which has subsumed the essence and personalities of two Voyager crew members and is asserting itself on board the ship.

    All it would have taken is for Janeway to have maintained (or be convinced by another) that this was the case, and it would be the obvious choice to split them back up.

    Of course that would negate the tension of the episode, but it could be left as “not everyone on board agrees that this is who/what Tuvix is, but Janeway believes it so that’s why her decision isn’t immoral.” We could have the same kinds of “was Janeway wrong?” debates, but some of the rough edges would be smoothed out, I think.


  • My understanding of the concept was that it was something like multiple channels of data being sent along the same wire. So long as the frequencies are the right kind of different they’ll essentially exist completely independent of each other.

    Maybe this requires a minimum of two time dimensions so that the variance can result in the different beings following time along different “tracks”?

    I took Troi’s awareness of the beings to be a result of the intermittent overlapping bits of time where they did overlap. Like, it happened too quickly to perceive visually, but enough for the empath to have something to pick up on.





  • Ah, sorry. It stands for “Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price.”

    In the U.S. the law doesn’t allow a manufacturer to require that retailers sell their product at a particular price, but they’re free to “suggest” one so that’s how we ended up with the MSRP.

    It doesn’t carry any real weight, but it generally serves to anchor consumer expectations for a product’s value. (It also gives retailers an easy metric to compare sale prices against.)