Star Trek
Space Birthdays - Real and Science Fiction
SETICon last call!
Just a reminder: this coming weekend (August 13 – 15) is SETICon, a convention where science and science fiction meet. You can read all about it in my posts where I announced I’d be there, and a followup. It’s still only $35 for the whole weekend, though there are options if you want to participate in more events.
Star Trek Live at KSC – SpacePod 2010.06.28
CAPE CANAVERAL – When vacationers visiting the Central Florida area search out fun, interactive shows to take the kids to the first locations to come to mind are probably Disney World or Universal Studios. Now there is a third option – Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (KSCVC). The roving KSC reporter had scheduled a visit [...]
Geek^infinity
I am a hardened geek, a nerd who strides across the planet with 20 km boots, a dork of such vastness that I can crush you into oblivion with my HP calculator before I even hit Enter.
Yet I was reduced to near-normalcy in comparison by listening to this [some brief NSFW language]. If you are a Trek fan, specifically of TNG, and are a fan of Wil Wheaton, Jonathan Frakes, and/or LeVar Burton, then you need to drop whatever you’re carrying — a Steuben crystal, a cooler with a transplant heart, your bowl of Quisp — and listen to that. These three men are all +20 for geekery.
And next year, by Grabthar’s hammer, I’ll try to go to Phoenix Comic Con.
Where no meat has gone before
Now I know why watching Trek made my blood pressure rise.
Hey, y’know what would go well with this? Antipasto. HAHAHAHAHA!
Anyway, this one certainly looks like more of a meal than the Tiny-E. And it’s weird: the secondary hull looks like a Shuttle external tank. Life imitates art imitates life.
Tip o’ the meat grinder to BABloggee cturner301 and MyFoodLooksFunny.
Sheldon or Wil?
Here is a question for the ages: who would win in a Treknobabble fight, Wil Wheaton or Sheldon Cooper?
My first thought was that Sheldon might trip up because he is so well-versed in physics that it might actually impede his ability to analyze Trek science. However, we know that his analysis of comic books is fearsome in its depth and grasp of minutiae.
Wil, on the other hand, ate my lunch when I attacked him over Trek physics. In fact, I still haven’t forgiven him. So I should add the obligatory CURSE YOU WIL WHEATON!
Book review: Memories of the Future
There are any number of reasons I don’t generally do book reviews on the blog. For one, I’ve been in the writing scam^h^h^h business for a while, so now I have a metric buttload of friends who write books, and reviewing all their books would be overwhelming. Plus, what do you do if their book sucks?
