From an ancient comic in MAD Magazine, satirizing Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

This joke has aged like fine wine over the decades.

Amusing comic about a little boy with a vivid imagination

https://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave/2026/08/02

I am rereading one of my favorite short stories by Clifford Simak: "All The Traps Of Earth"

Winsome and haunting, yet very hopeful.

I have never managed to decide which scifi author did robots the best: Clifford Simak or Issac Asimov.

https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41672

Wil Wheaton tells a story about former star trek actors

https://wilwheaton.net/2026/07/can-i-tell-you-a-story/

ACK!!!

Who asked for this?

https://gizmodo.com/researchers-built-a-scuba-suit-for-cyborg-cockroaches-2000781231

Some old spaceship sketches I did many decades ago

This is cover art by Paul Alexander for the novel Guardian by Thomas Monteleone.

I always liked this cover art. But whenever I saw it, I was reminded of the TTRPG Traveller. Not any other game, just Traveller.

I finally figured out why. The characters are carrying long arms, not pistols. Since basic Traveller does not have laser pistols, players who want to pack a punch are forced to carry rifles.

Other games have blaster pistols and other compact weapons.