Castle (2009) [/] This is a network television crime mystery comedy-drama series. NY Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) is at first forced then is resigned to having mystery writer Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) as her partner he's very good at inventing scenarios and noticing unusual clues but it grates on her no-nonsense style of detective work. Later on a romance develops which runs throughout the series. I've been watching this series on-and-off for years and this last stretch was season 5 to 7.4 which is not that much different than previous seasons since this is an episodic show (i.e. the episodes can be played in any order and you don't miss much other than the Beckett-Castle romance progressing). It's a nice background show in that you can watch it while doing something else, miss half the episode, and still roughly know what happened.

Starhyke (2009) [/] British science fiction comedy series of six 45-minute episodes filmed in 2004 but not released until 2009. In the far future humans have purged all their emotions and conquered or exterminated all other races in the galaxy. Captain Belinda Blowhard (Claudia Christian) of the Nemesis tries to stop a Reptid ship from going back in time to destroy humanity. But the Nemesis is caught in the time jump whilst the Reptid compassion bomb infects the crew with emotions. Now in the 21st century the Nemesis still has to stop the Reptids whilst the crew struggles with human emotions (mostly leading to a lot of sex jokes and sex). The series parodies other science fiction tv and movie media (e.g. chief of security is the always angry Wu Oof played by Rachel Grant). It’s funny at times and rather low brow humor. The 45-minute format allows for longer single-episode stories

Pro Snooker & Pool 2025+ (2022) [/] Play one of various versions of pool/snooker with a variety of tables. You control shot power, can spin the ball, and the UI shows you where the first ball hits goes. Feels more like a computer game port in that the graphics are not great and the UI is not great. But seems like a serviceable simulation.

Moonshot - A Journey Home+ (2022) [/] A gravity game. The anthropomorphic moon went through a wormhole and is lost and trying to get back to Mother Earth. In each level you fling it around gravity wells (and if planets you can enter orbit and then another fling) and into the exit wormhole. Pick up coins and probably do other things. Cutesy game but not that interesting.

The Roasted Crab, Santa Clara [+] Went here for lunch with my brother (the location is at Mercado Shopping Center). Catfish basket ($18) was delicious with lots of catfish and standard tasting French fries. Also garlic noodles ($11) which was also quite good. Would like to come here again next year during DDC.