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I bet it was Brent Spiner -- though with a pseudonym that good, we can't really be sure. Heck, we can't even rule out Jonathan Frakes!
life imitates art (or: I don't know much about brain scans, but I'll help you fix your computer.)
Earlier today, I got an email from a Star Trek TNG cast member who will remain nameless. I've chosen the pseudonym Jonathan Frakes for the purposes of this post. "Jonathan Frakes's" email had been compromised, and I'd gotten one of the things it sent out, so I pinged him and offered to help him ...
What about trading? Not that I particularly want to acquire any of your too-high-in-sentimental-value-to-part-with-anyway beer, but you must be able to barter for it, right? I wonder what defines "selling?"
Ryan and I totally made this.
It's our beer! Click to embiggen at imgur Today, at long last, the beer Ryan and I made together was ready to drink. We got on the phone and opened our first bottles together .... and it totally tastes like beer! It's sort of a slightly-hoppier version of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, which is pre...
I like the random not-photobomb background appearance of Adam Savage in your photobomb of Felicia Day. I can hardly imagine being in a place where your awesome photo of a cool celebrity person has more than one cool celebrity person randomly in the background. I can, however, imagine being in a place where awesome photos of cool non-celebrity persons have more than one other cool non-celebrity persons in the backgrounds -- because that happens all the time.
On the meeting of Nathan Fillion (or: The Obligatory Comicon Post)
Comicon was awesome. The Eureka panel was funny and everyone in the audience seemed to enjoy themselves. The consensus from the cast and producers was that I did a good job moderating, and I felt like I managed to get out the talking points the network wanted me to get out under pain of death wi...
"Resulting Harmonic Emission" is the name of my Devo cover band.
on the delivery of technobabble
I was in three scenes yesterday, one of which contained a massive amount of technobabble. For those who don't know what that is: on a sci-fi show, technobabble is what we call pseudoscientific dialog like "I'll have to run a level four diagnostic on the antimatter inversion matrix to be sure." I...
My family is a lot like your wife in that we rock the scrabble board, and we are very non-competitive about it. The main rule is: awesomer word wins out. If I take a spot you need for an awesome word (like juxtapose), and mine's kind of lame (like hat), I will absolutely find another place to play. Sometimes we'll even trade tiles or turns to get someone to replay elsewhere. My wife is also not very competitive, but she is SUPER concerned about "fairness" and playing by the "rules," so none of this flies with her at all. Ah well, there's always Battleship for us. By the way, there's nothing like 6-player scrabble (three two-person teams) to get some awesome words. Having two brains on one set of tiles really helps out, and it's a lot more fun for someone who isn't quite as wordy.
Video of my reading from PAX Prime: Triple Word Score
While browsing Reddit during my morning coffee, I came across this: I remember how much I liked writing this story for LA Daily, but until GenCon, I'd never read it in public. Both times I've read it, though, it's gone over very well, so I'll probably add it - at least temporarily - to my pe...
Let me fly, far away from here...
singing fun fun fun
Yesterday, I got an e-mail from John Scalzi, reminding me that my Unicorn Pegasus Kitten fanfic is due on Saturday ... I'm going to skip the part about how I began to hyperventilate at the thought of actually turning something in to John that people are going to read and OH MY GOD THEY'RE ALL GO...
I thought about that, too, but "guys" is the standard Californian gender-neutral pronoun (even though it technically isn't) and because Hollywood is in California, it is becoming nationally-standard, as well. I keep trying not to use it, but then I get stumped because I don't have any other good gender-neutral pronoun! And I'm certainly not going to use "y'all" like my wife (though I admit that it is the perfect gender neutral pronoun, being actually gender neutral, and being home-grown American).
woke up in the rain and everyone turned over
The way I remember it, the last day of school was always the hottest day of the year, capping at least a week of warm and sunny weather that brought with it the promise of spending every day of our impending summer vacation by the pool or at the beach. I didn't care that my parochial school forc...
Darn, Juleitc5 already beat me to mentioning the title of Caps For Sale, which I loved as a kid. Those crazy monkeys! I'm not sure what kind of hats those caps were, though... they certainly weren't bowlers, but they look a lot like berets, only not floppy. Maybe they're newsie caps, or just generic caps of some sort. Here's the Amazon link, you can decide for yourself:
http://www.amazon.com/Caps-Sale-Peddler-Monkeys-Business/dp/0064431436
Oh, I also would like to say that I thought the "'Celestial Body Long' -- that's what she said" joke was quite deserving of the bell, perhaps even quintessential in terms of the kinds of jokes the bell is designed for.
By the way, thanks for responding to comments (when you can) Mr. Wheaton (you are your father!). It's nice that we can actually interact with real internet celebrity-ness! :D
Edit: for some reason, I wasn't seeing all the (hundreds) of previous posts, so now I look like an idiot for not also noticing the dozen other commenters who also pointed out Caps for Sale and its Amazon link. Oh well. :P
Radio Free Burrito: Episode Twenty-Eight
Holy Crap, it's time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito! Has it really been three weeks since the last show? I guess it has. Well, I brought a note that will hopefully excuse my absence... Show Notes: The logo was designed by WWdN:iX reader Marc, who asked that I not link to his "in progr...
Don't forget the Iron Guard salute! Nothing saps your energy and will to do awesome like the common con-fluenza. Though I suppose that after the last two PAXs, you're likely immune to just about anything that hasn't been cooked up in a government lab! Scratch that: if you've been spending lots of time at G.D. lately, you're probably immune to those now, too! By the way, good job on your Eureka character not biting it during the episode (bad job on letting that info slip, though!). I think that puts you in the slight minority of guest-Ph.D.s who have survived, though I haven't done a study or anything.
excerpted from Just A Geek: a sort of homecoming
As I said in my last post, I'm really excited for all of the events on my schedule at the Phoenix Comicon this weekend, especially the TNG panel, because I get to share the stage with Jonathan and LeVar. Even though I talk to LeVar fairly often, we've never spoken together at a con. Though I've ...
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