Lunchtime Diversions for Tuesday, June 26

The things you learn when you go a-googin'. It started with this site, which posts correspondence between interesting people. Yesterday they had a letter from Gene Roddenberry to Isaac Asimov, pushing back on the latter's nitpickery about Star Trek. This part stuck out:

Anything stick out there? Yes: Kellum de Forest Research was hired to review a show that starred DeForest Kelly.

But there's more. From the Star Trek wiki:

So it was one guy. And Roddenberry misspelled the name. As for his work:

Perhaps he'd like to correct that sentence structure as well.

Some googling turned up a blog, written by his daughter. She notes:

Her father pops up in the comments, and adds another contribution:

As for DeForrest Kelly, let's bring it back to Star Trek. The last line in his imdb list of quotes has this:

"Let's make just one more "Star Trek" movie! I sure miss making those movies!"

It's preceded by a notation: "To William Shatner, on his deathbed."

MISC: Tags to take seriously: "FILE UNDER: 'lpq-79, man painted green, LQP-79 cases, green man paint permanent, permanent green man, green man hulk, green paint man, green man paint, man permanent green, hulk green paint, man paints self green" Go on, take a look.

What is a LQP-79? The Zombie virus, of course. I am so sick of zombies. Also vampires. All that's left is a brief Mummy craze.

CELEBRITY NEWS! OMG! Just got this press release:

It's been PROVEN.

Costs $225.

TECH NEWS: This is interesting. Hold on, did I just write "this is interesting"? I did. That's the way people start conversations, not blog entries. Well, just practicing for the Dictation feature in the next Mac OS, which will let me dictate long, blobby, unedited entries. Via MacRumors, a Wall Street Journal story:

But of course that's the only company that's serving up the pricier offerings based on your OS.

Off to the side, Mr. Suspicious Smoke-Stand Clerk:

El Productos and White Owl cigars! I've no idea what's in the middle of the shot on the counter, the 5-cent stuff. Tezew?