In keeping with the Star Trek theme, I've been watching the Deep Space Nine episodes pretty much straight through. SpikeTV started showing them around April. I hadn't seen the first five or six seasons, so it's been fun catching up on what I missed. I'm about all the way through. But, since I've been watching them all in such a compressed amount of time, I've noticed something odd.

When there is a mention of some period of time in days, like one day, two days, ten days, whatever, an awful lot of time the reference is to "three days", more than you'd think if it were just random. Some day, I'll go back through the show and record how many such things there are. Like with the names I talked about, I think the writers were just making stuff up, and weren't aware that they were often settling on the same thing. It's been rather obvious.

John came into our room this morning. He said "I have a fishing pole", and wanted to sing the fishing pole song.

Here is a nice essay about Kipling, a writer I've always wanted to dive into in more depth.