I wasn't expecting to come home to a road covered in slush, reduced visibility, and snowy hail falling on the twelfth day of spring. It looks like Mother Nature had to get one last winter storm out of her system this year.

So we're sitting here watching it snow. Am I missing something, or isn't the snow season supposed to be over by now?

I'm sure everyone will be excited to read this: I now have a Tablet PC and I've discovered how to do animation, so I'm going to start make everyone suffer through my animation skills from time to time. Heck, I might even finish Quackers one day.

We finally got around to watching a couple of older episodes of Stargate Atlantis last night. Of course, since I'm me, the one thing I fixate on is the over abundance of Tablet PCs in the Stargate Atlantis universe. What I found memorable, though, isn't the cute little product placement they've had running for years on the show. No, it's what they do with them.

When it comes time to give the evil bad alien some information to progress a plot point, how do they do it? Do they print up the information and hand it over? Do they just spew a line of technobabble? Do they send him an email over some sort of universe-wide internet? No, they give him a Tablet PC loaded with the information. I'd just like to say I'd love to live in a world where Tablet PCs are handed around like random scraps of paper.

I've been on a quest for some time now to read all the Star Trek books. One day, I may even try to explain to everyone why I'm doing it, but for now, suffice it to say, I've read a lot of Star Trek books.

One of my favorite series has been Star Trek: New Frontier. It's a series of books about a crew that only exists in the books. It allows the authors (mostly, the author, Peter David) a lot of freedom while exploring around in the Star Trek universe. It's extremely well done, and I highly recommend it.