First off, I'm feeling a lot better today. I'm not really sure what was wrong with me, maybe a low level virus or something. I had a really bad headache last night, and really felt the need to go to bed. I slept ok, although I was cold and sweaty through most of the night. Today I've been gradually feeling better all day.

The next thing in my massive backlog of things to write about is this video, in which a guy demonstrates a method to consistently de-bone flat (the two-bone variety) chicken wings:


I don't really like eating chicken wings, for much the same reason that I don't like eating ribs - sure, they taste good, but they're a huge mess and it seems like it takes a whole lot of effort and mess for very little meat.

But this looks like it could really help out with that - I'd like to try it out sometime soon.

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I have some follow-up on that Klingon propaganda video I posted a few days ago, from Trekmovie.com.

As it turns out the video was produced by a fan named Mark Farinas, who also happens to make viral videos for advertisers as a living. The article has some interesting details about some of the inspiration, the translation, and how it was made.

Some (Turkish) Star Trek fans already had identified the children's choir background music as actually being a Turkish children's song.

He's put out a new version with subtitles and credits, if you want to know what they're actually saying. I have to say, I like the video a lot more with subtitles:


And just because I can, this seems like an appropriate time to point out that the United Federation of Planets actually got an official national anthem in the 7th season of Deep Space Nine:


(that's not the video from the episode, so it's spoiler-free)

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