Geek Stuff (Page 25)

Oops, wrong thing set in the South Pacific. Jason Bennion reminds me of a show I really liked as a kid, Tales of the Gold Monkey. This was a high-adventure pulp show that aired in the 1982-1983 season on ABC, undoubtedly greenlighted in light of the smash 1981 box office success of Raiders of the Lost Ark. However, Gold Monkey wasn’t a mere Raiders knock-off, any more than Battlestar Galactica was a Star Wars rip. Here’s a Gold Monkey website, with plenty of relevant lore for the show (including the citation of a film to which Gold Monkey was farDown the rabbit hole….

I recall a while back reading Demosthenes take on Roger Ebert’s contention that video games may display a lot of craft, but they’re not art: I am prepared to believe that video games can be elegant, subtle, sophisticated, challenging and visually wonderful. But I believe the nature of the medium prevents it from moving beyond craftsmanship to the stature of art. To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers. That a game can aspire to artistic importanceDown the rabbit hole….

Longtime readers will remember my unreasoning love of the Greatest Thing to Ever Feature Muppets Ever, the classic nonsense tune “Mahna Mahna!”. The Muppet Show version, as ever, can be seen here. However, I always knew that the song was actually heard several years earlier, on Sesame Street, which in its elder days used to feature some niftily surreal stuff — i.e., the show wasn’t “All Elmo, All The Time”. Here’s the original “Mahna Mahna”. I still prefer the Muppet Show version, as it distills the song down and shows off the significant growth in the understanding of “Muppet BodyDown the rabbit hole….

I’ve been experimenting a bit with this newfangled BitTorrent thingie, and I have a question for the techno-inclined: What do I do with KVCD files, and how to I convert them into something that is, er, watchable? (Yes, I have Googled this, but none of what I’ve found makes sense to me. I need someone to spell it out. Slowly. Maybe even with pictures. In crayon.) UPDATE: After some info thrown my way by Mary, and after some subsequent tinkering around based on that info, I figured out what to do. Thanks, Mary! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….

There seem to be two types of bloggers: those who cheerfully do “What kind of X are you” quizzes, and those who will do them but only with the proviso that they rarely do those kinds of quizzes. I’m in the latter camp; I rarely do these kinds of quizzes, but anyway, here are the results of the one I just did: What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Literature Nerd   Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red andDown the rabbit hole….