Caution: Singularity Ahead [DEFUNCT]

Okay, so it turns out we'd dug them all out of storage, not just the Star Searcher. So how did my memory hold up? I finally know where all of the yellow parts are from - the almost vanished Rhodium Orbiter! The Crater Cruncher does have both scoop supports, and is in playable condition I'd tried to turn the Aquatron into the mission pod for a Nebula -class starship at some point, so I had to take it apart and put it back together. No harm done, but it's missing lots of pieces. Photon Sled - if you don't mind popping wheelies, it might be playable. Star Searcher - it's the one missing a scoop support, but otherwise stil unabashedly awesome ! The Interplanetary Headquarters is the mere potsherds of a lost civlization. Acroyear got in and out of the Star Searcher's hidden compartment one too many times and is down a leg. At least he came with prosthetic wheels! The Time Traveller is just a ghost of his former self. And to round it out, there's Battlest...

In the new "Crap I had as a kid" category... with commentary that points out which of the removable parts went to the big sandbox in the sky first. Introducing the Micronauts ! Figures: http://www.innerspaceonline.com/new%20time%20traveler%20clear%20page.htm  - clear http://www.innerspaceonline.com/new%20pharoid%20page.htm - gray, still have the sarcophagus http://www.innerspaceonline.com/acro2.htm  - red; had way too much fun with this guy Vehicles: http://www.innerspaceonline.com/rhodium.htm  - the body went AWOL. D'oh. http://www.innerspaceonline.com/aquatron.htm  - stayed intact a rather long time http://www.innerspaceonline.com/hydra.htm  - lots its charm without the missile launchers http://www.innerspaceonline.com/photon.htm  - pointy tip vanished first http://www.innerspaceonline.com/cratercruncher.htm  - sadly, one of the scoop supports went first, which rendered the toy rather pointless Big vehicles: http://www.innerspaceonl...

So I can't draw, but I was obsessed with Aliens (acid for blood, facehugger/chestburster... that kind) when I was attending University that I attempted some drawings. One graced the cover of a binder (yeah, the kind with a velcro closure on it). Somehow I managed to save the binder cover, and when I ran across it today I realized that the ink was fading badly so I scanned it. I only had a few minutes to play around in Photoshop, but here's the result. (The caption reads "ALIENS 4 - The Awakening" and "Last time was a dream/This time is a nightmare" - this dates from before Alien Resurrection came out, when fans of Aliens could still hope for a Dallas-style recovery from the disaster that was Alien^3 ).

Sarah tried to start a meme using the mapping sites to track "Farthest North, East, South and West" you've travelled from your current location. My map is below. North: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada East: Nice, France South & West: Queenstown, New Zealand Note that the resulting shape isn't a convex hull of my travels. To do that it would have to include London, England and Hawai'i, USA. And yes, I could have done the map with New Zealand on the right, so I'd have a bigger area, but that would be cheating.

So we're unpacking, and I run across an old book - Net Trek - Your Guide to Trek Life in Cyberspace . This was a 400-page paper book published in 1995 with details on Star Trek Web sites. I knew that I'd had my site and pages listed, but I'd forgotten that the reason I had the book is that they'd profiled me and sent me free copies. Here's what I had to say to the world circa 1995: Joshua Sean Bell Age 21; Calgary, Alberta Maintains mini-FAQs on Trek tech and a Website ( http://www.ucalgary.ca/~jsbell/star_trek.html ) Time [online]: 70 hrs/week Other Interests: NarniaMUSH, ASCII art newsgroups, and emailing "my girlfriend who’s in Texas" Favorite Episode: "Yesterday’s Enterprise" [TNG] and "Best of Both Worlds, Part I" [TNG] Mission Statement: "I’d avoided Star Trek on the Net for ages but eventually got sucked into rec.arts.startrek.tech when I got a copy of the TNG Technical Manual. Started writing and eventually ca...