{"id":242,"date":"2018-05-04T05:25:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T09:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.episodeix.org\/main\/?p=242"},"modified":"2018-05-21T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T16:56:08","slug":"its-star-wars-day-happy-may-the-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.episodeix.org\/main\/2018\/05\/04\/its-star-wars-day-happy-may-the-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Star Wars Day! Happy May the 4th!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cortana<\/a>

Cortana proves that even in the distant future, they celebrate what happened a long time ago.<\/p><\/div>\n

I, like many people, have a routine.<\/p>\n

Step #1 is to wake up.\u00a0 If I complete Step #1, no matter what, my day is going better than if I didn’t.\u00a0 After that, I blindly eject my arm out of bed and start jabbing at the air to find my phone, which sits on my nightstand.<\/p>\n

Upon completion of that task, I begin by checking my email accounts for anything of interest or urgency and then Cortana gives me my daily custom feed of various local, nation, global, and video game news.\u00a0 I like to find out if we’ve attacked someone or been attacked yet before I get out of bed, because depending on that answer I may or may not do it.<\/p>\n

And yes, I use Cortana<\/a>, that’s because I have a Windows Mobile device.\u00a0 Yes, I use a Windows Mobile device.\u00a0 It just works so much better than the other two, app-gap be damned.\u00a0 Now, now.\u00a0 No teasing.\u00a0 That leads to the Dark Side.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Anyways, today I had a great greeting from “her” as I was waking up.\u00a0 After unlocking my phone, Cortana offered up the best wake-up message I think she’s done yet; and that includes the “Happy Birthday!” she said to me just last weekend!<\/p>\n

Check out how she said “Good Morning” to me today.\u00a0 She shifted from her usual circular, or, dare I say it, “Halo” icon and morphed into the face of a very familiar Jedi Master.\u00a0 What could be a better way to start your day with a smile then that?\u00a0 Can one truly love an inanimate object?\u00a0 I think quite possibly yes, as there’s always another reason why I love my phone.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Best headline for Cortana to wake me up to on my Windows Mobile phone.<\/p><\/div>\n

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But she wasn’t done!\u00a0 She had one last notification before I was forced to either start my day or waste time talking to my phone’s AI about how fast Han Solo made the Kessel Run.<\/p>\n

Ah, May the 4th.\u00a0 The geekiest “holiday” fandom has. ^_^<\/p>\n

But does it really belong to fandom?\u00a0 Let’s take a little bit of a look into where May the 4th supposedly originated, what it means to us here today, as well as ways you can celebrate it here in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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The story goes, on\u00a0May 4, 1979\u00a0Margaret Thatcher<\/a>‘s\u00a0political party, the\u00a0Conservatives, placed a congratulatory advertisement in\u00a0The London Evening News<\/i>, saying “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.”, on that, the first day she took office as the\u00a0first woman to ever have been appointed Prime Minister\u00a0of the\u00a0United Kingdom.<\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Newspaper<\/a>

Newspaper advertisement of dubious originality congratulating Margaret Thatcher on her first day in office.<\/p><\/div>\n

Off and on there have been references to May the 4th and Star Wars, but nothing really concrete and celebrated annually until the era of social media really took off.\u00a0 Since purchasing Lucasfilm in 2013, though, the Walt Disney Corporation has turned into just that though – a bonafide holiday.<\/p>\n

At least at their theme parks.\u00a0 Every year on May the 4th at Disneyland in Anaheim, California and Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida they roll out the red carpet, and the droids, landspeeders, and other rolling and non-rolling things for all things Star Wars.\u00a0 Part of me has thought that this must be an amazing weekend to spend at their parks to experience a Star Wars celebration as only Disney can do – with a bottomless budget.\u00a0 However, the other part of me thinks “Good lord, the parks must be packed tighter than a can of sardines.\u00a0 What must the bathroom line wait be?!” \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

As it relates to us though, we thought we’d celebrate May the 4th by letting you all know that we’ve decided to put out a teaser for our radio drama podcast later on this summer as we approach the unveiling of our first release this Fall.\u00a0 More news on both of these topics will be announced in an upcoming transmission of our newsletter<\/a>, The Commlink<\/a>, so be sure to sign up today if you haven’t already!<\/p>\n

So whatever pockets of the universe you may be in today as you celebrate Star Wars Day, we hope you’re having a fun time.\u00a0 We thought we’d help out some of those local to us in the eastern Massachusetts area with some ideas on what they can do today if they’re looking to get out and about and celebrate with others.<\/p>\n

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