My wife has asked me on more than one occasion why they don’t celebrate religious holidays on Star Trek: The Next Generation (we haven’t gotten to Deep Space Nine yet). This is too funny not to share:

It’s simple, even though I only watched the first few minutes of it. (That’s almost as little as what I could stand to watch of the Sound of Music broadcast itself, but I digress….) SNL’s cold open wasn’t funny because it didn’t make fun of the Sound of Music live broadcast. I don’t watch SNL, so I don’t get their in-jokes. I had no idea who that creepy awkward character was, nor did I care. The SoM broadcast provided ample opportunity for parody, but they didn’t even acknowledge its awfulness in the little I watched. Did it get better? Or more relevant?

I thought of these on the drive in to work today: initially I only had two, but three sounds better. They’re a work in progress.

Rule number 1: Track your money.

You will never know just how wasteful – or thrifty – you are unless you know where and how you spend your money. It’s that simple. Or, put another way, you cannot control what you cannot measure. Do you like being out of control?

Don’t trust the banks. I have, on several occasions, caught bank errors in my favor through my good habits formed over years of practice. Strangely I never seem to catch errors in their favor. That’s probably because the rules err on their side. Because they wrote them. Think on this. Then tell me why you don’t track your money. You worked for it, right? You traded your most precious commodity – time – for someone else’s money. They’re already getting the better end of the deal. You have no extra time to give in your finite life and even the richest person in the world will eventually die. So when you fail to track your money, you fail to track the very lifeblood of your existence.

I don’t think I’ll end up posting a link to everything he writes…. :)

Still, good stuff.

Accept it whether you can change it or not.

I haven’t seen this episode of BBT yet – so don’t spoil it for me – but apparently Bill Nye drives a Nissan Leaf, too.

There were stories back on 2010 about Bill being an early adopter: I’m glad to see he still likes his car.

Smart guy. :)

Sam and Bill Nye share their love of the Nissan Leaf and chat Big Bang Theory | KTLA 5.

…or is that optomistic [sic]?

I had to enhance this photo because of the poor quality.

See this (Futurama fans will get it). Otherwise see this.

I can’t wait!

How Nissan Will Roll Out Self-Driving Cars: Fricking Lasers – ReadWrite.