There was no Deja Vu last week and this post is already late but I’m gonna keep trying. Maybe I should take the summer off and regroup but I know if I stop I will never start again. We’re gonna push through it so here we go.

Online quiz is sus – I clicked on one of those stupid quizzes that show up in Facebook newsfeeds. It was Bible trivia and not asking for my pet’s name or the street I grew up on. (If you don’t know why you should not respond to those kinds of questions, ask me in the comments.) I think I scored 37 correct out of 40. One question I legit got wrong; looked it up, I was mistaken. One question I didn’t like the answers so I would deem that question and answer confusing. Then there’s the question about plagues in Egypt. The correct answer is 10. I picked C: 10. According to the graphic above, C is wrong and the correct answer is D. Then the explanation goes into why 10 is correct. And that’s why I got 37 responses correct and not 38.

‘Till death do us part – Montgomery Scott, aka Scotty, was in 66 episodes of the original Star Trek series and survived despite wearing a red shirt. For the few that don’t know, “red shirts” are to Star Trek as pawns are to chess matches. It’s become a trope and the subject of many memes that they are sent on away missions to die like canaries in a coal mine. You probably don’t recognize Jonathan Goldsmith in the image above, far right wearing a red shirt. He only appeared for a moment in season 1 episode 2 and didn’t have any lines. But he did not die and that ain’t nothing! You probably would recognize Goldsmith as the Most Interesting Man in the World. “I don’t always wear red shirts on the Enterprise, but when I do I live to tell about it. Stay thirsty my friends.”

While we’re on the subject – I was surprised to learn that Webster was still on in 1989. That show got two seasons in first run syndication. Season 6, episode 25, has Webster on board the Enterprise D sharing a few scenes with Michael Dorn as Lt. Commander Worf. You can watch the full episode on YouTube. There is also a Reading Rainbow episode that I remember from back when that shows LeVar Burton going behind the scenes and explaining how the show is made. The Webster episode takes place in universe and the actors never break character.

An international flight from Paris to Detroit was diverted last week so that an unruly passenger could be removed. The flight proceeding to Detroit where the remaining passengers found the whole city to be unruly.

The technician installing that clutch probably knows exactly what he’s doing. The person creating the ad for “expert brake service” thought that was an image of a brake rotor. The person creating the ad will not be the same person servicing your brakes – one would assume.

The housing market has changed – I captured these images to share with Jimmy Humphrey who finds strange and amusing listings on Zillow in his spare time. You might expect the interior to be exquisite and luxurious but no, it looks like a crappy house from the 1970’s that needs a lot of work.

Math is hard. I had a math teacher friend that wanted people to stop saying that. I actually have it on a t-shirt but I propose math is hard and sometimes it’s worth learning to do hard hard things. Teach it well and when students succeed it’s not because the subject is easy but because they were able to achieve. At any rate, everyone needs to quit sharing images like this one on Facebook. People will either get the answer correct or they will get it wrong and argue with the people that try to explain it. It’s always order of operations problems. Comments shout things like “USE PEMDAS!” in all caps, then proceed to do it wrong anyway. The correct solution above is -36. It’s a real technical detail that I didn’t teach 8th graders when teaching order of operations for the two or three days we spent on this. Technically the question is asking for the negative of six squared. If you wrote (-6)² = then 36 would be correct.

Look right in the center of the pic at how the channels on this sound board are labeled. If you know you know.

Mother’s Day is the second Sunday in May, Father’s Day is the third Sunday in June. Mothers get breakfast in bed or a very nice dinner to celebrate their day. Fathers get to cook for everybody on Father’s Day. That’s just how it works, I don’t make the rules. Dads, you’ve got one week to get your grill ready. Refill the propane, stock up on charcoal or wood pellets, whatever you’ve got to do it’s time to get it done. I keep a full propane cylinder ready to go at all times. Extra tank, that’s you separate the men from the boys. Good luck out there fellas.