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Space: 1999 Reboot – Drop Tony Verdeschi

Any future reboot of Space:1999 is going to have to give serious thought to paring down the number of featured characters on the show, particularly if the modern 8-10 episode structure of television series prevails. There just isn’t enough time to develop more than a few story lines. One character that I believe the series…
Squeaky Alesis Keyboard Key

How to fix a squeaking key on the alesis vi49 (and presumably others as well) Compared to some other gear-repair posts I’ve done, this one is really pretty basic, but as someone who is often trying to repair something for the very first time, I always appreciate if I can find out ahead of time…
Space:1999 Reboot – Keep David Kano

When rebooting Space: 1999, there are several characters that must be preserved. One of them is computer operations officer David Kano.
The Rise of AI-Generated WordPress Comments

It feels like the era known as Web 2.0 is drawing to a close. Never quite what it was cracked up to be, nevertheless the Web 2.0 age was probably the apotheosis of the vision of a worldwide network of people freely exchanging ideas instead of the one-way producer to consumer model that came before…
Space 2099 – The Reboot That Never Was

A few years ago, fans of Space: 1999 were given some hope that the show was getting revitalized when a sizzle reel appeared describing “Space: 2099”, a reintroduction of the series. Now, this was nothing like the Ron Moore reboot of Battlestar Galactica. Rather, it was more like George Lucas’ enhancement of the original Star…
How to Reboot Space: 1999

Introduction – Why even reboot Space 1999? September 13, 1999, twenty-five years ago today, is a milestone date in the world of science fiction. It is the day that radioactive waste on the moon exploded, blowing the moon out of Earth’s orbit and into deep space, taking Moonbase Alpha and its 300 or so inhabitants…
Gutenberg vs. Divi, Round 2

Recap of Round 1 About two years have passed since I wrote about my first experiment with jettisoning Divi in favor of Gutenberg for this site. At the time, Gutenberg was still relatively new, but the prospect of being able to build a website easily and without a page builder was enticing, to say the…
Zwift Play and the Wahoo Kickr Bike

(Originally posted June 18, 2023, with updates at the end) If you own the Wahoo Kickr bike, you already have handlebar-mounted buttons for things like using power-ups, turning left and right, making u-turns, etc., so you might be wondering how much value there might be to adding the new Zwift Play controllers to your system.…
Peloton Guide Review

The Peloton Guide is far cheaper than some other products in its category (for those with the “all-access” Peloton plan, at least) but it often feels like it’s still version 1.0. A few months ago I purchased the Peloton Guide. I had been taking some weight training classes, and was intrigued by some of the…