I was always the most SFF obsessed in my intimidate circle. I was the one dragging the rest to new books and movies and games. Now my cousin does it and she even started an online fantasy magazine. She even promotes it with her friends (and her fiance) in full cosplay. There was never in my mind doubt that SFF was a girl thing. I never even thought ( Read more... )

What happens when a group of geeks go together on a cruise? They roleplay a crew of a starship, obviously. With Wil Wheaton as the captain. Now, we know how the rest of Wesley's Starfleet career went (the other crews can be found in links).

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If that's not fun enough - here's Hank Green translating lyrics of popular dance songs to English. It left ( Read more... )

I have trouble believing it's December already because after few cold days and nights with temperatures below 0 when I woke up to frost covering everything we have once again short sleeve weather. It's been 20oC and it's too be even warmer in next few days. It's felt so weird when I went shopping yesterday and there were Christmas trees  and the ( Read more... )

Look, it's another attack of the Fake Geek Girls. All those too pretty young women who are not really pretty but just made pretty by the cosplay of characters they know nothing of but dress up as just so they can get admiration from boys they don't want to have anything to do with. They just came to steal the fandoms they know nothing about and ( Read more... )

Since I'm staying far away from home once again this year and there will be no family to occupy my time I need something else. And It looks like this year it will be BBC America as this is what they are going to have on Friday:

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This is on on Saturday:

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And of course Sunday is time for this:

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Don't worry, I'm meeting some friends too.

The Geek Alphabet. Love the concept. Love the pictures. The cat and Heisenberg are my favourites. And gadgets are the way to my heart. That's what landed me on another continent after all.

The Digital Cuttlefish blogs about biology, evolution, atheism, religion and politics in rhyme. It's funny and to the point.

The Improv Everywhere reinstates a ( Read more... )