A few months back I was taking a break at work when I saw a twitter from the guild asking for volunteers to be extras for the 4th Season. I believe I twittered back something along the lines of “heck yeah!” Anyways, a week or two later I was sitting in a restaurant before dawn with Codex, Fawkes and Vork, Zaboo, and Zaboo’s mom, who instinctively I felt like I should behave around her, like visiting a high school friend’s house and meeting their parents. I have an active imagination and if someone shoots lighting on tv I give them wide berth in real life.
After the shoot Felicia came to our table ..read more
There are exciting things going on at my favorite soap website (and yes, I do have a favorite soap website–how can I not love a girl who has made it her mission to eradicate that 3rd-day-in-the-convention-hall funk using the positive reinforcement of RPG dice?) Geeky Clean has made Cthulhu soap. I know, the horror, right?
But just when you thought your were going to go insane from the awesome, she also has new Eye of Sauron soap. If that doesn’t make me excited and quest filled every time I hop in the shower I’m not sure what will.
I had a virtual sit down with Geeky Cleans proprietor to talk about her ..read more
It’s no surprise that the geeks of the world name their pets geeky names. That is, after all, one of the biggest reasons of getting a pet, besides, you know, companionship, stress relief, love of fluffy things.
I could blame my family. Maybe I have a chip on my shoulder cause my mom let my sister name me after her friend’s dog (I don’t, I think it’s awesome, so whatever a reverse chip on the should is).
We named our Cocker Spaniel Lady. My brother had a cockatiel named Gumby. I had hamsters named Buffy and Xander. And then there was my rat named after an actress ..read more
My buddy Verona and I have recently bonded via facebook messages by sending bits of the X-Men Animated Series theme back and forth to each other. These messages mostly consist of me going
do do do dooooo do do
and her replying
do do do dooooo de do
and then, when we are feeling especially epic
dododo dododo dododo do do deeee dooooooooo
So, here is my random summer list of favorite bouncing up n down in your seat get ready for the awesome tv themes.
1 – X-Men Theme
There’s just so much awesome here. Cause there’s all the good guys, and ooo they’re powerful, but then there are bad guys too and they’re ALSO powerful and ..read more
So I’m finally reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and, as on the nose as that title sounds, it should really be called Pride and Prejudice and Zombie and Kung Fu, because Lizzie, in this version of the classic tale, has been trained in the orient. Having expected blunderbuss’ and cannons and having received katanas and ninjas, I must say it’s taking me out of the story more than the zombies are, simply because I was completely not expecting that.
It has, however, totally put me in the mood to watch the 6 hour version the BBC made forevs ago. Other things that put me in the mood to watch Jane Austen ..read more
Editor’s note – This is a guest post written by my friend and twitter buddy Jim Brooks aka @nerdsherpa. He followed me after @thinkgeekretweeted something I said and we’ve been BFF’s ever since. He decided to write about a slightly different geekery than we usually talk about here, enjoy!
I recently sat down for lunch with my friend Erik (@topfermented) to talk about his Kickstarter project, Mystery Brewing Company. I mentioned how all of the friends I know who are into home brewing have a relatively high degree of geekitude in common. Obviously, there’s a lot of science and chemistry involved, so there’s that appeal to geeks. ..read more
When I was about 12 my sister bought me a computer game that changed my life. Now, I don’t want to seem too dramatic, I probably would have ended up in a lot of the same places without it, but I think I prefer my life how it is then how it could have been.
The game was Pirates! Gold, a 1993 remake of Sid Meier’s 1987 classic Pirates! And it knocked the socks off of Oregon Trail, let me tell you. The narrative was completely open, you could do what you want, when you want, you were as successful as your decision making skills and ruthless business skills allowed. There ..read more
So last night I dreamed that I was living back in LA proper and my neighbor knocked on the door. She wanted to borrow a chair for a dinner party. I said of course and gave her the chair. As she took it she said by the by, your neighbors with Felicia Day, and this chair is going to be at her party. Do you have a message for her? I said something that I felt really embarrassed about afterward, then my mind when through all the embarrassing things I’ve said to celebrities over the years and I woke up. After falling back asleep I was at the party now ..read more
After my brother-in-law Ric professed his love of Peeps over Facebook, “I like stale peeps, fresh peeps, and peeps with the plastic grass stuck to ‘em. This might be the year to try the frozen peep since there is 4 inches of new snow outside” someone suggested that he check out this oh so geeky website on Peep Research. You’ll be able to expand your knowledge of basic Peep Science and Peep Health. Are Peeps water soluble? How do they tolerate the effects of alcohol and smoking? And even an answer to Ric’s question regarding reactions to cold.
If you’re not interested in the semi-ethical experiments on Peeps, ..read more
Carolyn Hester became an influential folk musician in the 60’s. Think “A Mighty Wind” but for realsies.
She’s an awesome lady, and has many a tale to tell.
Like, she even had a roommate who was a Orion slave girl from the Original Trek.
She also raised some awesomely nerdy children, one of which is my BFF Amy. They asked me to set down a hammered dulcimer track in her latest album “We Dream Forever” that she produced with her daughters, who both play and sing on the album with her.
Well, her children are nerds. Both her daughters have worked at the Observatory, as well as half of their friends. Our get ..read more
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