Category: Rampant Geekery
Which Muppet Are You?
Well, I could have told them this without the quiz! What Muppet are you? You are Rowlf.You are a loner, and love classical music, You can play the piano without opposable thumbs. Then again, you are just a Muppet. ALSO KNOWN AS: Ol’ Brown Ears HOBBIES: Piano playing, punning, fetching. QUOTE: “My bark is worse [...]
Famous Art Reproduction Challenge
The work to recreate: M.C. Escher’s “Relativity” The medium: LEGO blocks. The outcome: Pretty Darned Spectacular. You can see it after the jump.
RIP Robert Jordan and, Perhaps, The Wheel of Time
For those of you who have been faithfully reading Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” series for the past 17 years in the hopes that you will come to the end of the story, you’re not going to like this news story. Jordan has passed away of a rare blood disease at the age of [...]
Kill, R2! Kill!
Those of you wondering what to get me for Christmas? Here you go. Nothing else even comes close. Now, if it came with an onboard Death Ray, it’d be perfect. (via John Podhoretz)
I’m Just Wild About Harry…
…but the Sci-Fi Channel apparently isn’t. Sci-Fi announced…well…it kind of announced…that “The Dresden Files” won’t be coming back for a second season. Yep, that’s right. The home of Mansquito won’t be bringing back the series based on an incredibly popular run of novels with every bit as much crossover appeal as anything Anne Rice ever [...]
When Convalescence Goes Bad
If they ever have a Geek of the Year award, Shamus Young just won it, going away. I’m a geek, as anyone who knows me even a little will tell you in a heartbeat. I can’t even begin to compete with that post. Let that be a lesson to you. Don’t let a geek convalesce [...]
It’s Christmas..err…A Holiday In July!
On November 17, 1978, CBS broadcast arguably the worst two hours of television ever seen. It was called the Star Wars Holiday Special and it was so bad that if we ever find ourselves under sudden and unannounced attack by an advanced alien civilization, it will likely be because they accidentally viewed this television show [...]
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