In which I come to the aid of a poor girl whose boyfriend seems to love video games more than he loves her.
Never fear, 2nd to PS3!
And remember, you can learn valuable things from video games. Like how to beat up a hooker and take your money back.
August 27, 2010
August 26, 2010
From the Twitterverse, to you, with love
I haven't had a chance to post daily roundups lately (read: I'm lazy), so here's a compilation of the best stuff in geeky tweets for this week:
"Fuck Yeah Chemistry!" via @mcoatney. A new tumblr that can help you with your chemistry homework! Takes the "mistry" out of chemistry! Where was this when I was taking chem?
Check check, is this thing on? via @slarkpope. A string of emails between your brain, your heart and your dick....what they're really saying about you.
Word Nerds Unite! via @slate. Chillax, cheeseball, the Oxford Dictionary of English has accepted new entries!
Relentlessly Cheerful Art via @bradmeltzer. Warhol meets Escher meets Picasso meets...Star Wars? Unique paintings and prints starring some of your favorite characters!
LOTR-Bound Library via @rickmarshall. Finally, I've found a real reason to go to Kansas City. Check out the literary facade on this library's parking lot building!
Cee-Lo's Long Lost Dirty Dancing Track via @slate. I'm sure you are all humming the tune of Cee-Lo's new internet smash hit, F$*k You. Mash it up with the finale of Dirty Dancing, and you've got something to spend your night pondering.
Ninjabread Cookies! via @joemoscone77. Guess what I'm making this Christmas! I'm told not to forget to draw little fondant Arashikage tattoos.
"Fuck Yeah Chemistry!" via @mcoatney. A new tumblr that can help you with your chemistry homework! Takes the "mistry" out of chemistry! Where was this when I was taking chem?
Check check, is this thing on? via @slarkpope. A string of emails between your brain, your heart and your dick....what they're really saying about you.
Word Nerds Unite! via @slate. Chillax, cheeseball, the Oxford Dictionary of English has accepted new entries!
Relentlessly Cheerful Art via @bradmeltzer. Warhol meets Escher meets Picasso meets...Star Wars? Unique paintings and prints starring some of your favorite characters!
LOTR-Bound Library via @rickmarshall. Finally, I've found a real reason to go to Kansas City. Check out the literary facade on this library's parking lot building!
Cee-Lo's Long Lost Dirty Dancing Track via @slate. I'm sure you are all humming the tune of Cee-Lo's new internet smash hit, F$*k You. Mash it up with the finale of Dirty Dancing, and you've got something to spend your night pondering.
Ninjabread Cookies! via @joemoscone77. Guess what I'm making this Christmas! I'm told not to forget to draw little fondant Arashikage tattoos.
August 20, 2010
As Seen on Twitter
Today's pull from the geek twitter feeds:
- Everything you've ever wanted to know about Mac n' Cheese, via @rickmarshall. Really, everything you've ever wanted to know, illustrated in a neat little diagram.
- An epic newspaper word fail, via @abloustein. There's no retraction for this one, folks, not one I'd buy anyway.
- "Justin Long Spends Months Texting with Teenage Stranger" via @megscherkezian and @nymag. Video clips of Long's appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, when he offers up a transcript of the hilarious text convo he had with a teenager who mistakenly thought he was her friend, Eduardo.
- A Facebook History via @slarkpope In which Ancient Asteroid's status message on Facebook is commented on by others, illustrating that some nerds and geeks have too much time on their hands, and enrich my life greatly.
Nerd Wedding Challenge on ItsGeekTime.com
In which I premiere my new column The Geek's Girl and I challenge you to find the hidden geek-related Easter egg in my wedding photo.
August 19, 2010
As Seen on Twitter...
I follow a lot of geeks on Twitter. I also follow a lot of non-geeks, but most of the most interesting stuff I click on across the InterWebs comes from the nerdy population on Twitter. I am called to serve as a humble conduit through which all that is good and great procrastination fodder passes.
So here's a bunch of stuff I found in the geek Twitterverse today:
So here's a bunch of stuff I found in the geek Twitterverse today:
- A video shot in Moscow 1990, when the first ever McDonald's opened in Russia, via @slate. In case you were wondering, there were 30,000 people in a line that stretched miles down the block.
- Minimalist art covers for Stephen King books, via the hubs, @rickmarshall. Very cool stuff, but you kinda have to have read the books (or seen the movies) to get it. My fave is the one drawn up for The Shining.
- An Ode to Cookies, by Cookie Monster, via @KevinMarshall. A throwback to the olden days (the 1980s), when Cookie Monster was my idol. Wait, he still is...
- Video of a cat jumping out of a box in slow motion, via @amp1976. Who doesn't like to watch cats do insane things? In slow-mo!!!
August 14, 2010
Scott Pilgrim is Rad
I had the pleasure of attending an advanced screening of Scott Pilgrim vs the World as my husband's plus-1 the other night, and jotted down my thoughts on the supremely awesome site ItsGeekTime.com. Check it out!
While I didn't get all the video game references (my parents thought video games were the devil so I was denied the lifetime of exposure that makes these things obvious) nor do I truly understand hipster culture, I tried my darndest to make it sound like I did. Humor me, I'm only a geek by association!
While I didn't get all the video game references (my parents thought video games were the devil so I was denied the lifetime of exposure that makes these things obvious) nor do I truly understand hipster culture, I tried my darndest to make it sound like I did. Humor me, I'm only a geek by association!
Geeking Out the Chicago Way
Ahhh, a weekend trip to the good old Windy City. I'd planned to do nothing but have fun. Because I'm married to a geek, that means part of that fun will inevitably involve geek-related activities. Marriage is all about compromise, after all.
While waiting out a 3-hour flight delay at JFK, I found myself cracking open the first in Brian Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim comic series. I'd intended to play free online tetris til I went cross-eyed, but my Macbook battery ran out and the three-prong outlets in the JetBlue terminal were switched off. (Our flight was so delayed, the airport closed.) So my only options for amusement were either staring off into space, or beseeching my husband to let me borrow one of the 12,000 comics he stuffed into his carry-on for in-flight reading. I finished the first Scott Pilgrim book in about a half hour. Can't say that I fully approve of glorifying lazy hipsters, but the illustrations were fun and the story was definitely one-of-a-kind.
During the flight we caught up on True Blood (so much for worrying about not having enough to read). It was one of those episodes where everyone's running around naked and having sex. Actually, that's all the episodes. But anyway, as the episode played out, RM became increasingly paranoid that everyone on the plane could see what we were watching, and that they would all take offense. I took a break from drooling over Alcide to tell him he was being ridiculous. Then I went back to drooling.
A trip to any city wouldn't be complete without a visit to the best comic shop in town. My brother (our host for the weekend) and I stood awkwardly at the front of Chicago Comics for a half-hour, flipping idly through books like Why is Daddy in a Dress? Asking Awkward Questions with Baby Animals while RM perused. Before we died of boredom and left RM at the store in favor of the nearest beer garden, I skimmed the first few pages of Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Awesome use of exposition and illustration in a way that reminded me of my own awkward childhood.
The whole trip (which also included a Cubs game, some epic bar visits and a gut-busting dinner at Texas de Brazil) was capped off by an unexpected stop at the Robot Store, where they sell, among other things, robots. Unfortunately it was closed, but you can get a sense of the sheer glee of the happening from this photo:
And that's the Chicago way...
While waiting out a 3-hour flight delay at JFK, I found myself cracking open the first in Brian Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim comic series. I'd intended to play free online tetris til I went cross-eyed, but my Macbook battery ran out and the three-prong outlets in the JetBlue terminal were switched off. (Our flight was so delayed, the airport closed.) So my only options for amusement were either staring off into space, or beseeching my husband to let me borrow one of the 12,000 comics he stuffed into his carry-on for in-flight reading. I finished the first Scott Pilgrim book in about a half hour. Can't say that I fully approve of glorifying lazy hipsters, but the illustrations were fun and the story was definitely one-of-a-kind.
During the flight we caught up on True Blood (so much for worrying about not having enough to read). It was one of those episodes where everyone's running around naked and having sex. Actually, that's all the episodes. But anyway, as the episode played out, RM became increasingly paranoid that everyone on the plane could see what we were watching, and that they would all take offense. I took a break from drooling over Alcide to tell him he was being ridiculous. Then I went back to drooling.
A trip to any city wouldn't be complete without a visit to the best comic shop in town. My brother (our host for the weekend) and I stood awkwardly at the front of Chicago Comics for a half-hour, flipping idly through books like Why is Daddy in a Dress? Asking Awkward Questions with Baby Animals while RM perused. Before we died of boredom and left RM at the store in favor of the nearest beer garden, I skimmed the first few pages of Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Awesome use of exposition and illustration in a way that reminded me of my own awkward childhood.
The whole trip (which also included a Cubs game, some epic bar visits and a gut-busting dinner at Texas de Brazil) was capped off by an unexpected stop at the Robot Store, where they sell, among other things, robots. Unfortunately it was closed, but you can get a sense of the sheer glee of the happening from this photo:
And that's the Chicago way...
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