Captain’s log, Stardate 43957.2: Klingon Elsa performed ‘Let It Go’ in her native language in the Ten Forward lounge tonight. I think I’m in love. End log. Data, bring me some tea! Earl Grey, iced. This is a video of Princess Jackie from Seattle-based party character provider The Painted Palace

This is a short video of a bengal cat that cows instead of meows. What a cutie! My cats meow. And sometimes they chitter at birds outside the window. Occasionally they’ll hack up some fur on the comforter. They don’t cow though. Neither do my dogs. My dogs do have

Refusing to be drawn into their fray by Oxford’s choice of ‘rage bait’ for word of the year, Merriam-Webster has just announced their own word of the year: slop. I wold have gone with sloppy, but that was pretty much 2025 in a nutshell. We define slop as “digital content

The Oxford University Press has chosen ‘rage bait’ as its 2025 word of the year (technically words of the year) after deliberating between it, ‘aura farming’ and ‘biohack’. The definition of each while I ponder when Gen Alpha made a hostile takeover of the Oxford University Press. aura farming (n.)

This is a compilation assembled by Youtuber MrNostalgik of Homer Simpson’s “D’oh!”, Bart Simpson’s “Ay Caramba!”, Nelson’s “Ha-ha!” and Mr. Burns’s “Excellent” as aired in nine different languages around the globe (English, Mexican Spanish, Castellano Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, French, Italian, German, and Cantonese. Which one was your favorite? I

This is a video of famed multi-language speaker (polyglot) Xiaomanyc discussing the important of learning different languages to a group of high school students, using their own Generation Alpha vernacular to connect with them (but mostly be laughed at). Thank goodness for the subtitles, because I did not understand what

This is a video of PBS Otherwords host Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D (previously: sailor jargon) discussing the origins of our words for different colors. Did you know humans can see more shades of green than any other color, but have fewer words to describe them? That was news to me. Not

This is a video of Adrian Marquez Jr.’s graduation from the University Of California Berkeley when the announcer provides an Americanized pronunciation of the name after his (I believe Yuang Shi) very similarly to “You ain’t sh!t.” She really puts some heat on that ball too. This reminds me of