Guests on Star Trek: Voyager

One day, while I was doing some research about one of my favorite nerdy shows ever, I came across the Wikipedia article for that show. (For those of you who didn't read the title, that show is called Star Trek: Voyager.) About three-fourths of the way down the page, there is a section about guest appearances, so I, being the curious guy that I am, decided to read the list. I recognized most of the people, but there was one guy's name I didn't recognize, some guy named King Jordan. So, I clicked on his name and was taken to this picture:

He didn't really look familiar, so I decided to read the rest of the article about him.

Really quickly, I discovered that I had made a mistake when reading his name. You see, his name isn't King Jordan (which is fortunate for him, because he'd get made fun of a lot with a name like that), it's King of Jordan.  Here's a more recent picture to show you what I mean. 

Yup, King Abdullah II of Jordan is apparently a big Star Trek fan. How big? Big enough to open a Star Trek based theme park in his country!

I know this is technically old news, but I didn't know about any of this until this week.

Detective Work

It was during my first week of marriage, after Natalie and I had moved into our new house, that I noticed something was amiss.  Here I had a series of seemingly unrelated events: the disappearance of my jacket from where  I usually place it, the the disappearance of my favorite glass from where it was sitting not twenty minutes before, the fact that the thermostat never is where I set it last. There was only one conclusion:

Gremlins.

But hey, on the plus side, sometimes the gremlins do my laundry.