It is a Sin to confuse ST with SW

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Obviously, No... BUT...

With the MCU exploring the Multiverse in their movies - such as "Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" and the upcoming "Ant Man: QUantUmanIA" movie, which is being released on 2-17-2023 per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant-Man_and_the_Wasp:_Quantumania, and the DCU exploring time travel in their movies - such as the upcoming "The Flash" movie - I think about "what might have been" in my own life. 

Before I continue, I need to make a comment about "The Flash" movie. I just learned that its star, Ezra Miller, uses "they/them" pronouns. I think doing that makes this paragraph from his Wikipedia page very confusing:

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Ezra Matthew Miller^[3][4] was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey,^[5][6] on September 30, 1992.^[7][8] They have two older sisters named Saiya and Caitlin.^[9] Their mother, Marta Miller (née Koch), is a modern dancer.^[6] Their father, Robert S. Miller, was senior vice president and managing director of Hyperion Books, and later became a publisher at Workman Publishing.^[9][10] Miller's father is Jewish; their mother is of Dutch and German descent.^[11] Miller identifies as Jewish and "spiritual".^[12][13][14] At the age of six, they started to train as an opera singer in order to overcome a speech impediment.^[15] They have sung with the Metropolitan Opera,^[16] and performed in the American premiere of Philip Glass's opera White Raven.^[6] Miller attended Rockland Country Day School and The Hudson School, dropping out at age 16 after the release of the film Afterschool.^{[10][17][18][2]}

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While I will likely go see "The Flash" movie, Miller is not based in a shared reality. My reality is based upon the reality that I am a single person - I am not multiple persons. When I look in a mirror, there are two eyes, two ears, one mouth, one nose, etc. Claiming that one person is actually multiple people is just not-based in reality. It is a human-created idea. The fact is simple: there were not two babies born on September 30, 1992. His mother - Marta Miller - gave birth to a single baby and that's the reality. Miller can feel like he is multiple people in his head and that's fantastic for him. I don't have to subscribe to that illusion though.

Anyways, getting back to "The Flash" movie, the movie comes out on 6-23-2023, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flash_(film), and will bring together previous versions of Batman  that have been in previous DC movies. That means Michael Keaton's portrayal of Batman in the 1989 movie - What? If you have never heard of that movie, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1989_film) - as well as Ben Affleck's portrayal of Batman in the more recent DC movies, will both be in "The Flash" movie. 

All of those words, 436 including the Wikipedia quote from Ezra Miller's page and 302 without it, take me to the simple fact that my mind considers the idea of "what could have been" in my own life to be fascinating. And, because I don't respect the boundaries of movie franchises and because I've already wrote about the DCU and the MCU, here's a quote from the STU (Star Trek Universe?) franchise in which an older version of Spock, most famously portrayed by Leonard Nimoy, talks to himselfin the Star Trek movie from 2009:

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All of those thoughts are in my head all the time. I constantly think about different realities and one of those different realities includes the one in which I never graduated with a Secondary Education minor from Mount Mercy. Instead, I earned my BA in English and earned a minor in Computer Science, with the forethought that I could have a career as a technical writer post-graduation. In that reality, this job at this company below might have been a job I would have been both qualified and interested in obtaining. And that's it. That's my point to this post: I might have been able to work as a "Senior Front End Developer" at a company in Washington, DC, if I had gone a different path at Mount Mercy.

Finally, while I've included the job description below, let me be clear that absolutely no, I am not qualified and no, I am not interested in obtaining the following position.

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Senior Front End Developer

at Grid (View all jobs)

Washington, D.C.

Grid is a new, digital media company dedicated to reporting on how the most important trends, challenges and opportunities of the day connect to one another – and require connected solutions. The biggest stories we tell do not exist in silos, so neither do the reporters at Grid. We’ve built a collaborative newsroom of beat reporters, subject editors and data journalists who produce daily interconnected stories written from multiple lenses, including science, economics, misinformation, politics, the law, technology, identity, and global. 

We are in search of a stellar Frontend Web Developer to support our Product & Editorial teams in building out high quality web products that will allow our teams to share rich and insightful news content. Must have experience in React JS, Web Application Development, and Frontend Web design. Experience with Test Driven Development is Preferred. The Frontend Web Developer should be able to quickly learn and utilize new technologies and be a source of ideas on how emerging technologies that can help the business.

The Frontend Web Developer will be responsible for communicating technical concepts to a wide variety of people of varying technical abilities and knowledge including, other Development Team members, Product Managers, Senior Managers, customer representatives, and suppliers.

Must be Proficient In:

• React / Node.js (Front and Backend)
• CSS/LESS/SASS
• HTML/HTML 5
• Full Stack Development:
• Solid front-end development skills. Can feel comfortable taking design mockups and user stories and turning them into functional UI’s
• Solid API Client Development, using layer abstraction and asynchronous architecture patterns
• Has experience with consuming third-party Restful Endpoints
• Good data modeling and optimization skills

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Automatic 5% Employer Contribution to 401(k)
• Medical, Vision, and Dental with a fully covered medical plan for families
• Vacation package + 10 sick days + company holidays
• Monthly cellphone, gym, and commuter stipend
• 3 months fully paid family leave
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Access to mental health resources

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Canceled

Paramount Has Canceled 'Star Trek 4,' And Disney's 'Star Wars' Is To Blame
Chris Pine And Chris Hemsworth Should Take The Pay Cut For 'Star Trek 4'

Want to Hear my ST Story?

I'll just say it: I wish that Riverside, IA, had the facility to host this event tonight since William Shatner's most noted character - Captain James T. Kirk - was born in Riverside, IA. Spoiler warning: I'm not attending this event tonight:

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I have a history with Star Trek & "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" movie. It was the first Star Trek movie I ever saw. I saw it with John Rath at the Westdale Four Movie Theater. The movie was released on June 4, 1982, when I was (exactly) 12.5 years old. I know I saw it in the theater. Because I had never watched the TV series or seen "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" I don't have a positive connotation when I think about the movie. Perhaps I had a kind of subtle knowledge of Captain Kirk and the others due to pop culture but it wasn't enough. I had no idea what was happening. I remember the 'bug in the ear' scene - perhaps why I am sensitive to videos about bugs being pulled out of ears on youtube.com! - and Ricardo Montalbán played Khan - I knew that actor from his time on the TV series "Fantasy Island." As far as why Khan & Kirk were enemies? I had no clue. All of that text to say I have zero desire to pay $62 to see a movie that was released 13265 days (36 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days) earlier to the September 28, 2018, showing.

Who Says Hella Anymore

President Obama’s List of Essential Science Fiction Is Hella Lame http://flip.it/jgiO.v

The Word for the Day Is....

Speculation.

Before I get to that, today is Wednesday, 12/23/2015. Alex has oral surgery at 10:45 so I came in to work @ 6 AM and am working until ~10:30 today. Then I'm off tomorrow (Christmas Eve) and Christmas Day, returning to work on Monday, December 29.

Back to the word for the day. I chose that word because of the two speculative articles I linked to below:

• Google may be replacing Gmail
• Star Trek: Beyond may be better than Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens