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Belinda A Lopez retweeted
Someone said “I miss when the internet was a library instead of a store”
I felt that deep in my Millennial soul
Belinda A Lopez retweeted
Simple and clear "I blame on him not marrying Beverly", hardly not agreeable
Belinda A Lopez retweeted
Gene Roddenberry had a rule that drove the writers of Star Trek The Next Generation absolutely crazy: there can't be any interpersonal conflict amongst the crew. The result was a cultural product I consider almost unique: a story about good people trying to do the right thing that isn't boring.
These days, moral ambiguity, twisted anti-heros and an apocalyptic vision of the future practially comes standard in our stories. Dark and complicated is synonymous with "smart," but in fact it's probably ten times harder to write a compelling story about principled, competent and psychologically healthy people. Star Trek TNG dared to imagine a future for humanity where we outgrew our petty squabbles and became our highest selves, where we travel the stars fulfilling our curiosity and genuinely making the universe a better place.
Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean-Luc Picard was the indispensable anchor to this vision. Instead of William Shatner's campy swagger as James T. Kirk, Stewart's Picard made "tea, Earl Grey, hot" iconic. His depth and gravitas as a thespian specializing in Shakespeare sold the moral dilemmas that were so often at the heart of the best TNG episodes.
The dramatic tension in TNG comes from people sharing the same ethical framework as a group facing difficult problems. The buck stops with the Captain. He listens to and respects his crew, but ultimately it is up to him to "make it so."
For TNG to work as a show, Stewart had to take those very internal struggles between a man and his conscience and make it dramatic. He made Captain Picard's very moral seriousness charismatic. He made you believe that...yeah...of course there is a moral arc to the universe and it bends towards justice. Of course it is worth paying the price to stay true to our principles. And of course, the struggle to discern what is right action is actually much more interesting than wallowing in how broken everything and everyone is.
Bon Voyage, mon Capitaine
Belinda A Lopez retweeted
DAY 1️⃣3️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ OF RETWEETING UNTIL @Skydance ANNOUNCES A #STARTREKLEGACY SERIES WITH @TerryMatalas AS SHOWRUNNER.
NEW ADVENTURES, ON A NEW ENTERPRISE, WITH A NEW CAPTAIN & CREW, AS A TRIBUTE TO PICARD & CO, LET’S MAKE IT SO!
CONTINUE TO #BELOUD🖖 FOR MORE 25TH CENTURY TREK!
DAY 1️⃣3️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ OF RETWEETING UNTIL @Skydance ANNOUNCES A #STARTREKLEGACY SERIES WITH @TerryMatalas AS SHOWRUNNER.
THANK YOU SIR PATRICK STEWART/CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD, WE ARE GRATEFUL TO HAVE RIDDEN THE TIDE WITH YOU.
CONTINUE TO #BELOUD🖖 FOR MORE 25TH CENTURY TREK!
Belinda A Lopez retweeted
DAY 1️⃣3️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ OF RETWEETING UNTIL @Skydance ANNOUNCES A #STARTREKLEGACY SERIES WITH @TerryMatalas AS SHOWRUNNER.
THANK YOU SIR PATRICK STEWART/CAPTAIN JEAN-LUC PICARD, WE ARE GRATEFUL TO HAVE RIDDEN THE TIDE WITH YOU.
CONTINUE TO #BELOUD🖖 FOR MORE 25TH CENTURY TREK!
Belinda A Lopez retweeted
We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope — with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
😭😩
My Captain
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Belinda A Lopez retweeted
8 things to tell your brain every day (backed by neuroscience and scripture)
Your brain will treat whatever you feed it as true. So put yourself back in charge.
Here’s what I say:
1. I’m safe right now.
2. I can change my brain.
3. I’m enough.
4. Mistakes are how I grow.
5. Not everything I think is true.
6. My presence matters.
7. Every day is a new opportunity.
8. Stop saying “why.” Start saying “what’s next.”
This isn’t positive thinking. It’s taking thoughts captive and giving your brain a different command. (Romans 12:2 has been saying this longer than neuroscience has.)
Save this so you can review the list later. Share it with someone who needs to hear it.
Follow if you want more practical self-brain surgery.
Click the link in my bio to learn more about self-brain surgery.
Belinda A Lopez retweeted
I debated whether or not to post today's Texas Quote of the Day, being that it borders on profane. But, in this hyper-partisan political era, I thought that it expresses a relevant thought about fellowship and the brotherhood of mankind in a way that only a Texan can:
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a b*tch.'”
― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and one of only 12 men to walk on the moon. Edgar was born in Hereford, Texas in 1930. Here's a photo of Edgar on the moon in 1971.
Never did care for boiled eggs but deviled eggs, yum.
The hard boiled eggs at the hotel breakfast weren't boiled there. They came peeled, in brine.
The foodservice case is a 25 lb tub. The label reads hard cooked eggs, water, citric acid, sodium benzoate and nisin preparation as preservatives. Shelf life is 56 days in the cooler. A plant cooks the eggs in a continuous boiler, cracks and peels them with rollers and water jets, and floats them in the tub. The kitchen opens it, drains a hotel pan's worth and sets it out.
A peeled egg is wet, high in protein and sits at a pH bacteria like, so the acid drops the pH and the benzoate stops yeast and mold. Nisin is a peptide made by a dairy bacterium, and it's in there for Listeria. A 2019 Listeria outbreak traced to a Georgia plant that peels eggs made 7 people sick in 5 states, hospitalized 4 and killed 1.