Category Archives: Geek

Next On Sci-Fi Theater…

Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010 by Keith

Over at io9, Charlie Jane asks a very good question: Is science fiction uniquely suited to blockbuster movies, because it’s a genre that lends itself to explosions and rampant breasts? And conversely, is the Hollywood version of science fiction too … Continue reading →

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Turns Out, Chewwie Was Just an Imaginary Six Foot Tall Rabbit

Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 by Keith

So I watched the final episode of Lost last night and man, that was some week shit. Really just some of the worst storytelling I’ve ever seen on Television. The best analogy I can come up with is that it was … Continue reading →

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Yours is an Unoriginal Sin

Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 by Keith

The iPad came out this weekend and the backlash is in full form. “Why would I want a big iPod?” says the computer geek, pushing his glasses up his nose. “I already have a netbook running Red Hat Linux.” Saying … Continue reading →

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Jets to the Sci-Fi Ghetto Leave Hourly

Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 by Keith

I just finished reading The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester. I am disappointed. Bester’s The Stars My Destination, I love. I read it last year for the first time and it’s now on my top 10 sci-fi list, right next … Continue reading →

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Brain Spill

Posted on Sunday, October 4, 2009 by Keith

Here’s a bunch of links to stuff. I’m dumping them here, so I know where to find it all later. It doesn’t all fit together in any sort of meaningful way, unless it does. Buddha Machine – a little box … Continue reading →

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Hands of Blue

Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 by Keith

Having just finished watching the unaired season* finale of Dollhouse, it occurs to me how this series could be a sort of back door prequal to Firefly. There will be spoilers. You have been warned.

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As If a Thousand Voices Cried Out, Saying “WTF?”

Posted on Monday, August 31, 2009 by Keith

The big news today was that Disney is buying Marvel. On the one hand this is good for Marvel, as they’ll be able to take advantage of Disney’s distribution and marketing apparatus, which are pretty much universal (quick, sing me … Continue reading →

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Data Vs. The Eames Brothers

Posted on Thursday, August 27, 2009 by Keith

Over at AMC, John Scalzi points out some of the design flaws inherent in the Star Trek Universe. Allow me to add a few more: Starfleet ship design Yes, flying saucers are cool. Flying saucers with rockets attached? Bad Ass! … Continue reading →

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Save Us, Crystal Dragon Jesus, You’re Our Only Hope!

Posted on Monday, July 27, 2009 by Keith

Remember V? The miniseries form back int he fabulous 80′s, where lizard people in prosthetic masks came to Earth, imitating Nazis so they could steal our water? Seems they’ve gotten a darker and edgier reboot. You can read a summary … Continue reading →

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Reason #5,203 I love the Internet

Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 by Keith

This page from the TV Tropes and Idioms Wiki, on James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, written entirely in Wakese.* It’s brilliant, not only because it’s so fiendishly hard to write in Wakese at any great length, but because there’s absolutely no … Continue reading →

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