Parenting

A nice quote I discovered this morning:

One thing I have learned is that sometimes, in order to be a good parent, you have to be a complete bastard.

The poster went on to say that most of the time, a good relationship with your child is enough to steer them right, but sometimes one must put one's foot down regardless of how angry it makes the kid.

Lj-name squee

Quite by chance I came across someone using the name aehallh. I don't know this person from Eve, but she gets massive Cool Geek Points for the name.

For those of you who are deficient in "obscure trek lore," aehallh is a Romulan Rihanssu word meaning "a monster-ghost" that rides dreamers to perdition. In the Duane Lore, Rihanssu don't deal fairly with the Federation because the Feds keep calling them by the silly Terran name "Romulan," and as long as they do that, they're not dealing with the Rihanssu, but with an aehallh of their own devising. When the Feds figure that crap out, the Rihanssu will deal with them on better terms.

Hmm. That's quite an entry for just squee-ing over someone's geeky LJ name.