How To Make Inner Geeks Flee
Someone, somewhere, declared tomorrow "National Embrace Your Inner Geekness Day."
I found this out from the "helpful" article my local paper printed, complete with a handy cheat sheet to help you brush up on your inner geekness for those who don't know how.
Here are some of their suggestions:
What to watch: Film
The Lord of the Rings. (No mention that this would require 9(theatrical) to 12(extended editions) hours to accomplish.)
The Matrix Trilogy. (About 6.5 hours.)
The Star Wars Saga. (13.5 hours.)
Their TV suggestions include both Star Trek(5 series that all ran multiple seasons) and Doctor Who(1963-1989/2005-2012), with no other suggested guidance. I think their shortest suggestion is The Big Bang Theory, which has half hour episodes and only four seasons on DVD.
Their what to play section suggests both the Halo series and Diablo series, yet they were able to suggest that you only play Starcraft 1 or 2.
Then there's their what to read section, which has, as it's first suggestion, A Game of Thrones series. Ignoring the fact that that isn't the name of the series, there's the simple fact that the series currently runs almost 5000 pages*. Doing the math, if you start at midnight and read through to midnight with no breaks, you'd still have to average about 3.5 pages a minute to pull that off. Maybe they should have just suggested the first season of the HBO series.
They do have several shorter suggestions in the movie and book categories, and yes, TV shows don't have to be watched in their entirety, but it doesn't offer any tips on where someone new to all things geeky might want to start and presents seriously time consuming items with no hint to their length.
Frankly, I don't think the staff writer who was assigned this article has even met his inner geek.
Oh, Friday is also National French Fry Day. I think I'll celebrate both by going to BK and working on some fanfic.
*Based on my copies, minus the appendices.
I found this out from the "helpful" article my local paper printed, complete with a handy cheat sheet to help you brush up on your inner geekness for those who don't know how.
Here are some of their suggestions:
What to watch: Film
The Lord of the Rings. (No mention that this would require 9(theatrical) to 12(extended editions) hours to accomplish.)
The Matrix Trilogy. (About 6.5 hours.)
The Star Wars Saga. (13.5 hours.)
Their TV suggestions include both Star Trek(5 series that all ran multiple seasons) and Doctor Who(1963-1989/2005-2012), with no other suggested guidance. I think their shortest suggestion is The Big Bang Theory, which has half hour episodes and only four seasons on DVD.
Their what to play section suggests both the Halo series and Diablo series, yet they were able to suggest that you only play Starcraft 1 or 2.
Then there's their what to read section, which has, as it's first suggestion, A Game of Thrones series. Ignoring the fact that that isn't the name of the series, there's the simple fact that the series currently runs almost 5000 pages*. Doing the math, if you start at midnight and read through to midnight with no breaks, you'd still have to average about 3.5 pages a minute to pull that off. Maybe they should have just suggested the first season of the HBO series.
They do have several shorter suggestions in the movie and book categories, and yes, TV shows don't have to be watched in their entirety, but it doesn't offer any tips on where someone new to all things geeky might want to start and presents seriously time consuming items with no hint to their length.
Frankly, I don't think the staff writer who was assigned this article has even met his inner geek.
Oh, Friday is also National French Fry Day. I think I'll celebrate both by going to BK and working on some fanfic.
*Based on my copies, minus the appendices.