Geek vs Life

Maybe all those “normal” people might not realize it, tomorrow (May 25) marks the date of three important holidays for us:

Universal Day of the Jedi
Geek/Nerd Pride Day

and, of course

Towel Day

The first two, of course, picked the date because of May 25, 1977, the release of the original Star Wars movie.

The latter picked it’s date, because it was 2 weeks after the death of Douglas Adams, author of the wondrous series “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. However, here’s a bit of fun trivia:

Open up your computer’s calculator and set it to View > Scientific. Then set it to Hex. Add together the numerical date of Towel Day (5+25). Then switch it back to Decimal mode. ^-^

Whichever day you’re celebrating, have fun, and don’t forget your towel!

Braving the trek down I-5, and through the urban jungle of downtown Seattle, I made my way to explore the elusive beast rarely seem outside of his natural habitat. These creatures of near mythical nature goes by many names: comic geek, fanboy & Grandma’s baby boy. Also known as Comibukis Nerdus in latin. My futile search for more information on this subculture returned very little results. The library barely had any literature on these creatures; all I could find were comments about something called “Furries” and “Cosplayers”. Clutching a can of mace firmly with one hand and a crucifix in the other, I opened the doors to the Washington State Convention Center and entered the Emerald City Comic Con.

My hunt would soon be proven far easier than I had at first expected, not only do the Comibukis Nerdus travel in herds much like the South American Alpacas (Vicugna pacos), but also they like to wait in line for long periods of time waiting to be let in to the holding pens (also known as the convention floor).

Well, this is my first time writing a movie review, so bear with me. ^-^ (or wait, did I do one for Harry Potter? Don’t remember. It’s still my first for a movie that hasn’t yet been released…)

Anyway, I got a chance to attend the advance screening of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian down at Pacific Place theater last night, and man was it awesome. I do consider myself a fan of the books, although, truthfully, I can only remember a definite reading of three of the seven books in the series (The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, Voyage of the Dawn Traeder, and The Magician’s Nephew). I do have some vague memories of watching at least part of the BBC rendition of Prince Caspian, but that far back and in elementary school is too long ago for me to remember clearly.

Check this out. Someone actually built a working jet pack. If I weren’t so afraid of heights, I would so want one.

The GVL gang is relocating its headquarters! The old lair served its purpose for the time being, but now it’s time for greener pastures, namely, a backyard. With that green stuff that people have to mow and shit (We’ve been living in downtown Seattle too damn long).

We’re packing up the consoles and tearing down the bookcases. But with the new locale, we get advantages too. Big advantages like room. Lots of room. What will we do with all this room? Let me show you.

That right because sometimes gamers need to get their hands dirty too. It’s perfect for conflict resolution and we needed a place to eat at besides the coffee table.

More info to be released as it becomes available…

Warmest regards,

J & J

Awesome custom made video that requires no effort on the users part. Just, sit, watch and enjoy the show. Beautiful simply beautiful what some people with too much free time can end up doing. How many hours did it take do do this 11 minute video? Only the creator know, but dammit it was worth it.

Added bonus question: Can you identify all the mystery songs represented?

In honor of The Donnas’ 15th year anniversary (May 9th), here’s a review of Spend the Night, my favorite Donnas album, released in 2007.

It was The Donnas 5th album and featured “Take It Off,” the major hit on this lovely sex hungry romp. Often compared to the Ramones, The Donnas pull it off with a sassy feminine grace. They come on strong and don’t back down with “Dirty Denim” and “Who Invited You”.

These might just be the girls your mother warned you about.

Why? These boy hungry girls party hard. Just listen to “Pass it Around”. They also play hard and loud, not just for girls but better than anyone on the scene today.

But don’t just take my word for it. Go spend the night with The Donnas.

The Donna’s official website.

I had never been to a screening like this before. There were maybe three reporters in the whole room and the rest of the audience seemed mostly composed of people that were dragged off the streets with a promise of hooch and shelter from the rain. If they promised to laugh, of course. And laugh they did, even when it wasn’t appropriate.

Zombie Strippers is pretty much everything that the title tells you. The set up is funny though. After being reelected to his fourth term in office, George W. Bush is running out of soldiers for his war on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, France, Canada, Mexico and many others, so he enlists the help of his own company called “W” to create unbeatable killing machines. They create with zombies. The infection makes its way in a now illegal, (due to evangelical rules), strip club and hilarity ensues.

It’s like a partnership made in heaven and hell. Microsoft & Activision partner up with 7-11for what will surely cause mass amounts of brain freeze to overtake most of geekdom. Buy a 22 ounce Slurpee with the cool Guitar Hero fan favorite characters on the label (as seen above), grab the code on the cup and enter it at www.slurpee.com.

Now what do you get for the labor of your efforts? You get a chance to win a copy of the new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith videogame on the Xbox 360, where one game will be awarded every hour for the whole month of May, 744 games in total.

Personally, not being a huge fan of the Guitar Hero series (I’m a Rock Band fan) I will be collecting my codes in hopes of getting Microsoft Points to purchase additional content from XBL Marketplace. Heh, more than 711,000 points will be awarded.