(H/T)
Hubbard posted this at 10:25 PM EDT on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 as Nerdom, Random Bloggish Things
March 24th, 2009
Star Wars on a HARP
February 27th, 2009
So True!
Of course, I actually own this shirt, so I might be biased.
Hubbard posted this at 11:17 AM EST on Friday, February 27th, 2009 as Humor, Nerdom
January 14th, 2009
Be Seeing You
Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner’s Number Six) and Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek’s Khan) are both dead.
I am a sad nerd. 
Tom posted this at 5:15 PM EST on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 as Nerdom
I resemble that
This is the sort of thing I do, though not (thankfully) regularly.
Hubbard posted this at 10:12 AM EST on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 as Humor, Nerdom, Ourselves
October 27th, 2008
Buffy & Fecundity
Does Joss Whedon have the solution to the West’s demographic issues? I have some evidence that indicates a connection.
Tom posted this at 2:47 PM EDT on Monday, October 27th, 2008 as I bid you stand: Men of the West, Nerdom
October 18th, 2008
After Hours of Deep Thought, I Just Realized…
…that Sarah Palin sounds exactly like a Buffy Summers from Lake Wobegone!
Tom posted this at 8:56 PM EDT on Saturday, October 18th, 2008 as Audacity of Hype, Nerdom
October 7th, 2008
The Dune Theory of Democratic Politics, Continued
Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child.
– Bene Gesserit saying
H/T: Lee
Tom posted this at 4:32 PM EDT on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 as Audacity of Hype, Nerdom
September 25th, 2008
Life Immitates Art Immitating Life
In 1984, Rob Riener, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer introduced us to Spinal Tap — a fictional British rock band that is at varying times a satire on the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and probably half a dozen other British Invasion bands — with their fake documentary This Is Spinal Tap.
For anyone who hasn’t seen This is Spinal Tap, I cannot possibly recommend it too much. Besides having a hilarious script and some of the best chemistry between actors I’ve ever seen, the songs in the film manage to be just good enough for you to believe ‘Tap had once been to popular, while being just bad enough enough for you to be certain that you wouldn’t have been one of the people who would have liked them.
In one of the deleted scenes, the band endorses a meat pastry with the painfully awful brand name of ‘Rock ‘n Rolls’:
While shopping at the supermarket the other day, my girlfriend called my attention to this new product endorsed by Hannah Montana:
Tom posted this at 12:03 PM EDT on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 as Film Rants, Nerdom
August 12th, 2008
The Wesbite Is Down
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. NSFW.
Tom posted this at 4:09 PM EDT on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 as Nerdom, Random Bloggish Things
July 28th, 2008
Make it so!
Jamie posted this at 10:41 PM EDT on Monday, July 28th, 2008 as Nerdom, Science & Evolution
May 24th, 2008
I will Derive!
(H/T)
1) I actually get what these guys are talking about. Sad.
2) Both of them dance better than I do. Sadder.
3) I now have a crush on the one in glasses. Saddest.
Hubbard posted this at 7:51 PM EDT on Saturday, May 24th, 2008 as Nerdom, Random Bloggish Things
March 18th, 2008
The Dune Theory of Democratic Politics, Updated
He did not call him out.
H/T: Independent George.
Tom posted this at 10:38 AM EDT on Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 as Audacity of Hype, Nerdom
March 12th, 2008
Spare Me
HP VII will actually be HP VII…and VIII!
LOS ANGELES (AP) – entertainmentminute Harry Potter was the center of seven novels, but he’ll star in eight films.The final book in the wildly successful series will be made into two films, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
Producers are expected to announce Thursday that J.K. Rowling’s last “Potter” installment, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” will be split into two parts on the big screen. The first film is slated for release in November 2010, with part two following in May 2011.
“It was born out of purely creative reasons,” producer David Heyman told the Times. “Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book.”
You know, it’s one thing for Mr. Heyman to squeeze a couple million dollars more out out of the Harry Potter franchise. It’s another for him to subject us to the unedited version of that interminable 100 pages of Harry, Hermione, and Ron playing Lord of the Rings together when they should be busy destroying Horcruxes.
Tom posted this at 10:54 PM EDT on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 as It's Economics - Stupid!, Nerdom
March 11th, 2008
The Oldest Profession
I’ve never understood why we criminalize selling something that can be given away for free. Derb seems to agree, complete with a bonus geek reference:
Prostitution, like drug trafficking, is one of those zones where libertarianism bumps up against the realities of human nature.
To a lover of liberty, it’s hard to see why a woman shouldn’t sell her favors if she wants to. Trouble is, weak or dimwitted women end up in near-slavery to unscrupulous men, and I think there’s a legitimate public interest in not letting that happen.
The best private sector solution would be a guild system, like the geishas had in old Japan. There’d be entry standards for the guild. Women would have to pass exams, and have some entertainment skills other than the obvious ones. The guild would police itself, expelling miscreants. Freelancing outside the guild could be under strong social disapproval, even made illegal.
Now if you’ve ever looked at The Smoking Gun you know that most prostitutes don’t look like Inara Sera – we should do something about this.
**UPDATE**
I’ll be in my bunk.
Jamie posted this at 4:29 PM EDT on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 as I have seen the future. . ., Nerdom
Don’t Play D&D with Eric Sofge
I used to play D&D, but until last week I’d never heard the name Gary Gygax. Evidently he invented the game, and now he’s dead. Bully for him.
At any rate, over at Slate, always in pursuit of the next contrarian angle, Eric Sofge uses Gygax’s death to say that D&D was a bad game. But the game he describes bears very little resemblance to the game I remember. We had long-running character development, complex and interwoven plot lines, and oodles of things to do that weren’t rolling dice to see how many orcs we killed. Sure, we sometimes killed orcs because rolling dice is fun, but that was a small minority of our time.
I’m willing to accept the possibility that my friends in high school were a unique collection of rambling free-thinkers, but I think it improbable. Instead it seems to me that D&D was precisely what you made it, and evidently Eric Sofge and his friends were a bunch of lame-oes who couldn’t manage to be creative when given the blank slate of D&D. And if there’s one thing sadder than writing an article about your D&D experiences, it’s writing an article about being a bad D&D player.
Apollo posted this at 2:16 AM EDT on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 as Nerdom, Ourselves