Short post on Short Treks Season 2

Enjoyed "Q & A" and "Ask Not."

Those two were delightful little character sketches that fit nicely into Star Trek lore. Will see if the fans are able to lobby for an Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck centered show. They have been wonderful.

I think Discovery might have been better served building around Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, and Michelle Yeoh. Instead, they wrote themselves into a corner with massive story arcs in the two seasons that were resolved in not entirely satisfying ways.

But back to the Short Treks, season two; though, I like the idea of a lighter touch and plots involving "origin stories," I thought "The Trouble with Edward" was over-the-top.

Monocle 3 install on Mac

Was attempting to install Monocle 3 onto a iMac.

Got stuck trying to install the leidenbase package.

Found a solution here at https://github.com/cole-trapnell-lab/leidenbase/issues/6

The program needs gfortran so went ahead and installed it from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/tools/gfortran-6.1.pkg

Was then able to proceed to the next step in the installation and am now trying out the various Monocle 3 tutorials!

Aging Parents - Random things from this season of life, part I

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