Is T'Pol part Camel?

[enterprikayak]

they look almost like chinchillas, which we have two of. They are also dry desert animals.

Hmm. This article says that "crepusculum" is latin for twilight.

I wonder if the series would have done so well if it was called that?

I dunno.



(yes, just to post this comment, i found the stupid movie poster, found and downloaded the font, redesigned the poster in photoshop, uploaded it to my ftp, and then put it in here. I am probably the geekiest one of all of you. In fact, I defy any one of you to outgeek me. I throw down my gauntlet!

[WarpGirl]

Oel Ngati Kameie, ma tsmuke--- You are indeed a geek ek but try that on for size. <grumbles about evil stupid vampires that should just go away>

[Transwarp]

I defy any one of you to outgeek me. I throw down my gauntlet!

I had a directory on my computer with a thousand or so Enterprise screen caps from various episodes, with names like breakingtheice_022.jpg. There were so many that it took a long time for my little netbook to open the directory, and since the files were sorted alphabetically, they weren't in any kind of logical order (like the order the episodes aired).

So I downloaded a text listing of all the episodes, then wrote a python script that would do the following:

1 - read the episode numbers and titles into an array, converting them to all lower case and removing any spaces.
2 - Create a directory with a name like [ep num]_[ep name] (for example 108_breakingtheice where 108 is season 1 episode 08)
3 - Loop through the directory, and rename all files by giving them a leading episode number (for example, breakingtheice_022.jpg became 108_breakingtheice_022.jpg). Then the script moved that file into the appropriate directory, created in step 2.

Now instead of a thousand screen caps all jumbled together in no logical order, I have a sorted series of directories, in season-episode order. I can go straight to 308_twilight and quickly find an image of T'Pol, resplendent in her Starfleet uniform.

I also work math problems for fun.

NEVER throw down the geek gauntlet to an engineer...

Python script follows:
-------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/python
'''
Script to rename Enterprise screen caps with episode numbers
'''
# Python Rename File 1.0
# Author: Mark Dowdey
# License: GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

import re, os, string
dir = '/home/mcd/stuff/ent/'
rxin = '.*JPG'
jpegs = re.compile(rxin)

eps = '/home/mcd/stuff/tnt/episodes.txt'
try:
eplist = open(eps, 'r') # open episode list
except IOError:
sys.exit("*** Unable to open " + eps)

array = {}
for line in eplist:
name = ''
line = string.lower(line)
parts = string.split(line, "\t", 3)
tmp = string.split(parts[1], ' ')
for word in tmp:
name = name + word
array[name] = parts[0][1:4]
newdir = dir + array[name] + '_' + name
print newdir
os.mkdir(newdir)

for fname in os.listdir(dir):
allowed_name = jpegs.match
if allowed_name(fname):
tmp = os.path.splitext(fname)
# print tmp[0] # debug, just prints
# remove trailing _### from string
offset = string.rfind(tmp[0], '_')
index = tmp[0][0:offset]
index = string.lower(index)
# print index, array[index]
if array.has_key(index):
# print tmp[0], index
oldname = dir + fname
newdir = dir + array[index] + '_' + index
fname = string.lower(fname)
newname = newdir + '/' + array[index] + '_' + fname
print oldname, newname
os.rename(oldname, newname)

Episode file follows:
---------------------------
#101 Broken Bow aaaaaa aaaaaa
#103 Fight or Flight 10/03/01 05/29/02 Yes Yes 7.4
#104 Strange New World 10/10/01 06/05/02 Yes Yes 7.4
#105 Unexpected 10/17/01 12/19/01 Yes Yes 7.1
#106 Terra Nova 10/24/01 12/26/01 Yes Yes 6.9
#107 The Andorian Incident 10/31/01 01/02/02 Yes Yes 8.3
#108 Breaking the Ice 11/07/01 06/12/02 Yes Yes 7.9
#109 Civilization 11/14/01 06/19/02 Yes Yes 7.3
#110 Fortunate Son 11/21/01 06/26/02 Yes Yes 7.1
#111 Cold Front 11/28/01 07/03/02 Yes Yes 8.6
#112 Silent Enemy 01/16/02 03/13/02 Yes Yes 8.0
#113 Dear Doctor 01/23/02 07/10/02 Yes Yes 8.6
#114 Sleeping Dogs 01/30/02 07/17/02 Yes Yes 7.7
#115 Shadows of P_jem 02/06/02 07/24/02 Yes Yes 7.9
#116 Shuttlepod One 02/13/02 07/31/02 Yes Yes 7.4
#117 Fusion 02/27/02 08/07/02 Yes Yes 7.2
#118 Rogue Planet 03/20/02 08/07/02 Yes Yes 5.8
#119 Acquisition 03/27/02 08/14/02 Yes Yes 7.3
#120 Oasis 04/03/02 08/14/02 Yes Yes 6.8
#121 Detained 04/24/02 08/21/02 Yes Yes 7.6
#122 Vox Sola 05/01/02 08/21/02 Yes Yes 7.5
#123 Fallen Hero 05/08/02 08/28/02 Yes Yes 8.1
#124 Desert Crossing 05/08/02 08/28/02 Yes Yes 7.5
#125 Two Days And Two Nights 05/15/02 09/04/02 Yes Yes 7.5
#126 Shockwave1 05/22/02 09/04/02 Yes Yes 8.7
#201 Shockwave2 09/18/02 10/23/02 Yes Yes 7.4
#202 Carbon Creek 09/25/02 12/04/02 Yes Yes 7.6
#203 Minefield 10/02/02 05/28/03 Yes Yes 7.9
#204 Dead Stop 10/09/02 06/04/03 Yes N/A 8.6
#205 Night In Sickbay 10/16/02 01/15/03 Yes Yes 7.2
#206 Marauders 10/30/02 06/11/03 Yes N/A 6.4
#207 The Seventh 11/06/02 01/29/03 Yes N/A 7.5
#208 The Communicator 11/13/02 07/02/03 Yes N/A 7.2
#209 Singularity 11/20/02 03/12/03 Yes N/A 7.5
#210 Vanishing Point 11/27/02 03/19/03 Yes Yes 6.2
#211 Precious Cargo 12/11/02 03/26/03 Yes N/A 6.2
#212 The Catwalk 12/18/02 06/18/03 Yes N/A 7.8
#213 Dawn 01/08/03 07/09/03 Yes N/A 6.4
#214 Stigma 02/05/03 06/25/03 Yes N/A 7.9
#215 Cease Fire 02/12/03 08/27/03 Yes Yes 8.4
#216 Future Tense 02/19/03 07/16/03 Yes N/A 8.4
#217 Canamar 02/26/03 07/23/03 Yes N/A N/A
#218 The Crossing 04/02/03 07/30/03 Yes Yes 6.9
#219 Judgment 04/09/03 08/06/03 Yes N/A 7.9
#220 Horizon 04/16/03 08/13/03 Yes N/A 7.4
#221 The Breach 04/23/03 08/13/03 Yes Yes 7.8
#222 Cogenitor 04/30/03 08/20/03 Yes N/A 8.5
#223 Regeneration 05/07/03 08/20/03 Yes N/A 8.3
#224 First Flight 05/14/03 08/27/03 Yes N/A 8.2
#225 Bounty 05/14/03 09/03/03 Yes N/A 6.6
#226 The Expanse 05/21/03 09/03/03 Yes N/A 8.5
#301 The Xindi 09/10/03 06/02/04 Yes Yes 7.3
#302 Anomaly 09/17/03 06/02/04 Yes N/A 8.2
#303 Extinction 09/24/03 06/09/04 Yes Yes 7.1
#304 Rajiin 10/01/03 06/09/04 Yes Yes 7.4
#305 Impulse 10/08/03 06/16/04 Yes Yes 8.3
#306 Exile 10/15/03 06/23/04 Yes Yes 7.8
#307 The Shipment 10/29/03 06/30/04 Yes Yes 7.9
#308 Twilight 11/05/03 06/30/04 Yes Yes 9.0
#309 North Star 11/12/03 07/07/04 Yes Yes 7.9
#310 Similitude 11/19/03 07/07/04 Yes Yes N/A
#311 Carpenter Street 11/26/03 07/14/04 Yes Yes 7.4
#312 Chosen Realm 01/14/04 07/14/04 Yes Yes 7.1
#313 Proving Ground 01/21/04 07/21/04 Yes Yes 8.7
#314 Stratagem 02/04/04 07/21/04 Yes Yes 8.5
#315 Harbinger 02/11/04 04/07/04 Yes Yes 7.6
#316 Doctors Orders 02/18/04 04/07/04 Yes Yes 7.7
#317 Hatchery 02/25/04 08/06/04 Yes Yes N/A
#318 Azati_Prime 03/03/04 08/13/04 Yes Yes N/A
#319 Damage 04/21/04 08/13/04 Yes Yes N/A
#320 The_Forgotten 04/28/04 08/20/04 Yes N/A N/A
#321 E2 05/05/04 08/27/04 Yes Yes N/A
#322 The Council 05/12/04 09/03/04 Yes Yes N/A
#323 Countdown 05/19/04 09/10/04 Yes Yes 8.9
#324 Zero Hour 05/26/04 09/17/04 Yes Yes 8.6
#401 Storm Front1 10/08/04 03/11/05 Yes N/A N/A
#402 Storm Front2 10/15/04 03/18/05 Yes N/A N/A
#403 Home 10/22/04 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#404 Borderland 10/29/04 12/10/04 Yes N/A N/A
#405 Cold_Station 11/05/04 12/17/04 Yes N/A N/A
#406 Augments 11/12/04 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#407 Forge 11/19/04 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#408 Awakening 11/26/04 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#409 KirShara 12/03/04 N/A N/A N/A N/A
#410 Daedalus 01/14/05 05/27/05 Yes N/A N/A
#411 Observer_Effect 01/21/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#412 Babel_One 01/28/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#413 United 02/04/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#414 Aenar 02/11/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#415 Affliction 02/18/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#416 Divergence 02/25/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#417 Bound 04/15/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#418 In A Mirror1 04/22/05 06/04/05 Yes N/A N/A
#419 In A Mirror2 04/29/05 06/11/05 Yes N/A N/A
#420 Demons 05/06/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#421 Terra_Prime 05/13/05 N/A Yes N/A N/A
#422 These Are The Voyages 05/13/05 N/A N/A N/A N/A

[Cogito]

Is your script suitably backed up, too?

[Silverbullet]

Haven't we wandered a little off topic? Perhaps a thread for the topic of the geek of Trisilk or something like that.

SB

[WarpGirl]

Transwarp OMG

[Cogito]

The thing is, I'm every bit as obsessive - I'm just so much less effective at it!

Your next challenge will be to use the Picasa face recognition feature to build up an index of who is in which picture.

(Please don't tell me you've already done it!)

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

I have an ENT picture folder of 5,5 GB. And it has sub-folders, and sub-folders within sub-folders. And I have one sub-folder for each episode.

Not as geeky as Transwarp though...

[enterprikayak]

...
#208 The Communicator 11/13/02 07/02/03 Yes N/A 7.2
#209 Singularity 11/20/02 03/12/03 Yes N/A 7.5
#210 Vanishing Point 11/27/02 03/19/03 Yes Yes 6.2
#211 Precious Cargo 12/11/02 03/26/03 Yes N/A 6.2
#212 The Catwalk 12/18/02 06/18/03 Yes N/A 7.8
#213 Dawn 01/08/03 07/09/03 Yes N/A 6.4
#214 Stigma 02/05/03 06/25/03 Yes N/A 7.9
#215 Cease Fire 02/12/03 08/27/03 Yes Yes 8.4
#216 Future Tense 02/19/03 07/16/03 Yes N/A 8.4
#217 Canamar 02/26/03 07/23/03 Yes N/A N/A
...

Now that is obsession on an order I can understand! Do you know how many times I have sworn to myself that just as soon as the kids are grown I was gonna compile that exact same cache of sweet sweet video-index data?! It is absolutely invaluable to a video maker.

[loudspeaker]
Attention everyone! Attention everyone! Transwarp has won the gauntlet challenge! Repeat: Transwarp has taken us all to school! All hail Transwarp!
[/loudspeaker]

(oh wait, silly me. I never turn my loudspeaker off. ...wait...hold on..... [loudspeaker] THERE! THAT'S BETTER! )

NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED CAMELING! I BELIEVE THE LAST POST RELATED TO CAMELS WAS THE FOLLOWING:

But nobody uses the toilet on ST!!!!!!

Anyway, I didn't decide Vulcans "evolved" from bats, somebody who got paid to think it up did. Vulcans have hollow teeth like some bats do, possibly some echo location abilities, (T'Pol can sense wild shelats miles away) and other "bat like" things. Is it stupid scientifically? Probably. But Vulcans are aliens it's suposed to be FUN!

Dis that's the first rat I've ever seen in my life that I think is really cute.

Aaaaaaaand....GO!

[Transwarp]

But nobody uses the toilet on ST!!!!!!

Why use toilets when you have transporter technology? Just beam the waste directly from the intestines into the recycling tank.

And pay no attention to the forum subject line. If you wish to heap even more richly deserved praise and accolades at my feet, feel free to do so even if it is "Off Topic".

[enterprikayak]

what if you miss and end up recycling part of someone's lower colon?

[enterprikayak]

k, here's a fun thought....say we *do* start beaming our poopy out into holding tanks, so much so, and so well, that no one ever does it au naturel anymore, ever. And then when the CME hits and all the world's technology goes kaput, the top thing on everyone's The 10 Worst Things About Armageddon list would be "#1: Having to do my own poops." And then all the great-granddads would be all "I remember back in the old days, when I used to shite twice a day: y'know, I never liked those new fangled Excret-O-Matics anyhow..." and everyone else (around the fire with their tin plates) would be all, "Shut UP, Grandpa!"


okay. i'll stop now.

[WarpGirl]

We need a terrified smiley.

[panyasan]

Eehh.. you haven't seen toilets in Japan, ek. They almost as close beaming your "waste" (I have no idea what it is called in English) with a tracker beam. Almost. You still have to sit. For the rest: music, distracting music so nobody would know you doing it, water that springs forth for washing your behind, warm air to dry your behind. And these are toilets you will find in let me say the subway.

Back to the topic: I suggested a stomach where the water is stored, but I think a kidney to store water is also good. Maybe a totally new organ we as Human never heard about before? Because isn't the function of a kidney to get rid of (waste) fluid?

[WarpGirl]

Actually I wish Vulcans did have an extra organ somewhere to help store water, it actually makes a lot of sense. More sense than the 3 lungs, 2 stomachs, and 2 livers your average has. Unfortunately the person responsible for Vulcan anatomy wasn't as practical as the person responsible for Klingon anatomy. Here's the diagram... http://www.stogeek.com/w/images/8/81/VulcanBio.jpg