[ale] Craig's list scammer and StarTrek

[Daniel Howard]

Yes, it's definitely a scammer, and I've had one recently that is much 
more subtle: a prospective buyer asked to come see the furniture with 
his wife before committing to purchase.  I said fine, I'll arrange to 
move the furniture to a public parking lot for viewing, and suddenly 
cricket, cricket, cricket... I'm guessing this one was hoping to see the 
house where an antique piece was held in order to scout it out for a 
future heist.  I've now had two friends whose homes were vandalized 
after service workers came to the house (one of which was a cable 
contractor), so watch out for service workers as well.  When I had my HD 
Settop box installed, I made sure the techs saw the cameras all around 
the outside my house and told them, "smile, you're on the Internet," and 
so far, knock on wood, no problems.

As for Star Trek, it was fantastic, my wife loved it, and yes, we've 
known for some time the connection with Forbidden Planet.  The doctor, 
first officer and captain are also the primary characters going to the 
planet in FP, plus Talos IV *is* a forbidden planet!

My favorite part that I forgot about was, in addition to Spock showing 
emotion in smiling at the blue foliage, after the beam down scene when 
only the women beam down, Spock jumps with his legs and arms spread out 
and screams "The Women!!!"  Totally uncharacteristic of him, and 
hilarious as a result.

But the new digital FX of the ship and space scenes are AWESOME!  Check 
out some of the remastered episodes on TVLand early in the morning to 
see them, even in standard def, they're great.

Best,
Daniel

-- 
Daniel Howard
President and CEO
Georgia Open Source Education Foundation