Tag Archives: Geek Stuff

Boldly Geeking

I wanted to highlight a few nice geek-posts I’ve seen the last week: :: First, Jason takes note of some possible reason for optimism regarding the Star Trek relaunch by JJ Abrams: So, here we’ve got a good look at … Continue reading

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Et tu….

Via Jason, I learn who I would be if I was an action hero (sorry about the formatting, but it’s one of those things where you copy-and-paste the HTML code they give you, and I don’t feel like fixing it … Continue reading

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“If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake, you’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.”

A few months back I finally addressed a monstrously huge hole in my science fiction, space opera loving resume: I watched all of Firefly, every bit of it, including the movie Serenity. I realize I’m very much late to the … Continue reading

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To Boldly Geek

The official first trailer for JJ Abrams’s Star Trek reboot is out. Having watched it, I can say once again regarding this project: Meh. I’m still not sold on the idea of rebooting Trek in the first place (If we’ve … Continue reading

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Love and Death, or, What Movies Are For!

Back a few months ago Entertainment Weekly had themselves a big old list-fest, in which they compiled a bunch of lists of pop-culture stuff. At the time I commented on their teevee shows, and the movies and books lists. They … Continue reading

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The Great Bird

It appears that we now know what the Enterprise will look like when Star Trek reboots next year: Well…I don’t know. I can’t decide yet if I like it or not. It certainly sticks to the classic shape, and the … Continue reading

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Choose your next witticism carefully….

While I was on blogcation, a number of times I found things online or off that tempted me greatly to return to active posting before my arbitrarily-chosen return point of Election Night. Many of these things were political in nature, … Continue reading

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Some Thoughts on Contemporary Popular Culture

That’s actually a pretentious title for a post in which I’m going to geek out a bit. Huzzah! Back to the geekiness! :: It did excite me that another attempt to bring everyone’s favorite Cimmerian, Conan the Barbarian, back to … Continue reading

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On with the show!

OK, that’s it for the politics for a while. Here are a couple of nifty things I saw in the last day or two: :: xkcd continues to fill me with joy: I remember when my school district bought a … Continue reading

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Then you may take me to the Faire….

Ah, Jenny, you saucy wench: Yup, ’twas that time of year again yesterday: our kinda-sorta annual voyage to the Sterling Renaissance Festival. Much fun was had by all, even with a large rainstorm that came through at about 5:00. We … Continue reading

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