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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #45 on: February 28, 2015, 07:10:16 PM »
What did you do to it?  Nothing wrong with an oval, but it won't display that way as an avatar unless it's reduced first; when the forum software rescales down to 80x, it turns the result into a .jpg.
Did nothing to it. Just scaled down and blended the pumpkin a bit.
Also moved the pumpkin up to crop in right.
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The best sendoff to Spock came from the International Space Station
« Reply #46 on: March 01, 2015, 06:32:11 PM »
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The best sendoff to Spock came from the International Space Station
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Updated by Ezra Klein on March 1, 2015, 11:11 a.m. ET@ezraklein



On Saturday, NASA astronaut Terry Virts, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, marked the passing of Leonard Nimoy with a Vulcan salute … delivered from the final frontier, and sent over Twitter.



As Kyle Hill writes at Nerdist, NASA has long known the power of Star Trek in inspiring astronauts and galvanizing the public:

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NASA has always recognized the galvanizing power of Star Trek. Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura alongside Nimoy's Spock, later became a recruiter for NASA. She toured the country encouraging diversity in astronaut applicants. Among those who listened were Charles Bolden, the current NASA administrator, and Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

And in 1976, NASA revealed the space shuttle "Enterprise," which was supposed to be called "Constitution" if not for a write-in campaign from Star Trek fans.


I'm tempted, of course, to end this with a sappy "Live Long and Prosper." But the truth is that the future of NASA's exploration of the final frontier looks very grim right now.
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http://www.vox.com/2015/3/1/8129063/leonard-nimoy-astronaut-vulcan-salute

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #47 on: March 01, 2015, 08:54:34 PM »

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #48 on: March 02, 2015, 05:09:07 AM »
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'Spocking' Laurier on $5 not illegal, says Bank of Canada
« Reply #49 on: March 03, 2015, 01:42:21 AM »
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'Spocking' Laurier on $5 not illegal, says Bank of Canada
But defaced bills may not circulate for as long and risk being rejected by retailers
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By Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press Posted: Mar 02, 2015 3:29 PM ET| Last Updated: Mar 02, 2015 6:57 PM ET



The death of Leonard Nimoy last week inspired people to post photos of marked-up banknotes on social media that show the former prime minister transformed to look like Spock, Nimoy's famous Star Trek character. (Design Canada/Twitter)



It turns out there's not a lot of logic after all in the belief that it's against the law to Vulcanize Wilfrid Laurier's likeness on the $5 bill.

The death of Leonard Nimoy last week inspired people to post photos of marked-up banknotes on social media that show the former prime minister transformed to look like Spock, Nimoy's famous Star Trek character.

For years, Canadians have been wielding pens to draw Spock's pointy Vulcan ears, sharp eyebrows and signature bowl haircut on the fiver's image of Laurier.

Contrary to what many believe, the Bank of Canada said Monday it's not illegal to deface or even mutilate banknotes, although there are laws that prohibit reproducing both sides of a current bill electronically.

Nonetheless, bank spokeswoman Josianne Menard pointed out there are reasons to resist the urge to scribble on bills.

"The Bank of Canada feels that writing and markings on bank notes are inappropriate as they are a symbol of our country and a source of national pride," Menard wrote in an email.

Long life and prosperity might also take a hit: Menard said disfigured bills may not circulate for as long and risk being rejected by retailers.

Following Nimoy's death Friday, social media users posted their own versions of Laurier's Vulcan makeover to honour the actor.

"Spock your $5 bills for Leonard Nimoy," a group called the Canadian Design Resource tweeted alongside its depiction.

The online images of the altered bills circulated widely and attracted international media attention to something many Canadians were already familiar with.

It wasn't exactly a place that no Canadian had boldly gone before.

Calgary artist Tom Bagley, who posted his own Spock-Laurier hybrid on Facebook and Flickr after Nimoy's death, described it as an old bar trick to impress the waitress.

He compared it to folding the $20 bill along the Queen's face to make her smile or frown.

Bagley said he had no concerns about any potential legal issues over defacing the banknote. Besides, he said, he drew his with a pencil crayon, which can be erased.

"I don't know anyone that's gone to jail for it," he said in an interview.

"I always thought it was OK as long as the numbers were intact — it still counted as money. That's what I heard. Because stuff happens, like say you spill spaghetti sauce all over it or something like that."

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #50 on: March 03, 2015, 02:50:23 AM »
Have to email my resident Canadians about this. :D

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #51 on: March 03, 2015, 03:07:24 AM »
It never occurred to me to do anything like this. I do have a couple of $5 bills, but it's probably not a good idea to draw on them.

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #52 on: March 03, 2015, 03:25:25 AM »
In an international spirit, Spock reacts to a common defacement of the US $1, wherein Washington asserts one of his crops as a farmer.

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #53 on: March 03, 2015, 03:43:11 AM »
Do you remember tha red-striped sweater I wore last month, BUncle? It was made (partly) of hemp. ;cute

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #54 on: March 03, 2015, 04:05:51 AM »
I guess Spock doesn't approve.

I dunno why the potheads love hemp so, anyway - you can't get high off it and it would cross-pollinate with their maryhootchie, ruining the potency of the weed.

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #55 on: March 03, 2015, 09:22:26 AM »
I dunno why the potheads love hemp so, anyway - you can't get high off it and it would cross-pollinate with their maryhootchie, ruining the potency of the weed.

It reminds them so much of their vice. :2c:

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Remembering Leonard Nimoy
« Reply #56 on: March 03, 2015, 12:38:21 PM »
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Remembering Leonard Nimoy
Wil Wheaton27 February, 2015



Normally, I’m pretty good with words. At the moment, I’m not at my best, for reasons I hope are self evident. However, I’m going to do my best to remember someone who gave more to my life than he ever knew.

I never got to know Leonard Nimoy the way my fellow cast members did, so I can’t remember him in the personal way that they can. I didn’t know Leonard as a friend, or even as a colleague. I can’t tell you what he was like off the set, because I never had the privilege of visiting with him off the set. In fact, by the time he worked on Next Generation, my character was off exploring other planes of existence, and I was a nineteen year-old kid who was stumbling around, trying to figure out what he was going to do with the rest of his life.

When you are part of the Star Trek family — and that’s what it is, in ways that are as wonderful and complicated as all families are — you are part of a very small and special group, where news travels fast. Though I never got to be close to Leonard, I knew that he was a wonderful and lovely man, because that’s all anyone ever said about him. I feel that I haven’t earned the right to eulogize him, but a lot of people are asking me to, so if you’ll allow me a few minutes of your time, I’d like to do my best to remember Leonard the way most of us will be remembering him today: as the actor who played a character who was deeply important to all of our lives, because everyone who watched and loved Star Trek is part of our extended family.

When I was a kid, long before I put on Wesley Crusher’s sweaters or piloted the Enterprise, I loved Star Trek. I watched it all the time in syndication on our black and white television, and when the other kids at school wanted to play CHiPs or the A-Team on the playground, I wanted to turn the jungle gym into the Enterprise. On those rare occasions that I convinced my classmates that we were boldly going toward new worlds on lunch recess, one of the Cool Kids would claim the role of Captain Kirk, and I would always happily assume the role of Mister Spock.

I was too young to fully understand why, but as I got older and looked back on those years, it became clear: I identified with Spock because he was weird, and cerebral, and he was different from everyone else. He was just like me, but the things that made me a target of ridicule on the playground made him a valuable and vital member of his ship’s crew. In ways that I couldn’t articulate at the time, I wanted to be Mister Spock because if I was, I could be myself –quiet, bookish, alien to the people around me — and it wouldn’t be weird. It would be awesome.

When I was cast to play Wesley Crusher, and became part of the Star Trek family, one of the first things I got excited about was meeting Mister Spock, and the actor who played him. It never happened, really, so I never got to know the man behind the ears and the eyebrows and the character that meant so much to me. But as I said on Twitter this morning, we in the Next Generation stood upon his shoulders, and we got to explore a universe that wouldn’t have existed without him. I’ve met thousands of people over the last decade, who have told me that Wesley Crusher meant the same thing to them that Mister Spock meant to me, and for that I am eternally grateful to everyone who was part of Star Trek before I was, including Leonard.

Mister Spock made it okay for me to be the weird kid who eventually grew into a slightly-less weird adult, but it was Leonard Nimoy who made Mister Spock live, and who made Star Trek — and every science fiction TV series since 1966 — possible.

Thank you, Leonard, for making it okay to be me, and for making it possible for me to explore brave new worlds, and boldly go where you had gone before. I wish I’d gotten to know you the way so many others did, because everyone says you were as awesome and wonderful as I hoped you would be. Rest in peace, sir.
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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #57 on: March 04, 2015, 07:33:06 AM »
That's one of the best tributes I've read.

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #58 on: March 04, 2015, 11:25:58 AM »
Does anyone when the funeral is?

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Re: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83
« Reply #59 on: March 04, 2015, 02:41:30 PM »
It was Sunday.

 

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