The-other-Carl, Colin and I were were there to witness the incredible spectacle that is Dragon*con. I’m trying to figure out how to describe how amazing it is and find myself coming up short. It isn’t just a science fiction convention, it isn’t just a big sf/fantasy/gaming convention, it’s freaking huge. It spans four large hotels [...]

You’ll recall podcast 117 we talked about the Sweet On Geeks dating service. They have another singles night scheduled for Saturday, September 6th, at 7pm at Pandemonium Books in Cambridge. There will be free pizza and lots of gaming as well as a beverage going by the name G33K B33R. Check it out!

Quick! Go to http://www.cafepress.com/bostongeek and buy a BostonGeek t-shirt or thong; a Remy is Right beer stein; a Science is Like Sex spaghetti tank and much more! All the other fashion plates are doing it, what are you waiting for?

Spoiler alert! you all know how much I hate hearing details of a movie I haven’t seen so this is your warning!
First off, let me say that I saw The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor when I was hanging with some friends and we needed to kill a couple of hours. And it wasn’t like “Oh man [...]

(This may not be new news to some of you. I just found out about it today because my friends were sheltering me.)
Don S. Davis who portrayed General George Hammond on Stargate SG1, died June 29th of a heart attack.
There are many “geeky” titles among his extensive list of film and TV credits, including The X Files, Twin [...]

We were supposed to get together today to record podcast #117. Supposed to but didn’t. Why? Because one of the -not-me- members of the BostonGeek podcasting team decided he’d rather jump out of an airplane and fight the wildfires in California… no wait, it wasn’t firejumping… it was that other thing… umm… oh yeah, I [...]

Actor Charlton Heston died Saturday night. Though often thought of as strongly conservative, he starred in a number of science fiction classics that were at the time considered rather edgy and were critical of conservative ideologies, most notably Planet of the Apes (1968), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), The Omega Man (1971) and [...]

Here’s a tip: Anime Boston is freaking HUGE! Register online ahead of time or you’ll be waiting five - yeah, five, maybe six - hours to register at the door. I was kinda on the fence about waiting that long to get in myself - I was expecting to spend all day and much of [...]

Author Arthur C Clarke died today at his home in Sri Lanka. He was 90 years old. More here. Best known as the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he wrote on a number of subjects and is credited as the inventor of the geosynchronous satelite.

Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons died Tuesday morning at age 69, at his home in Lake Geneva Wisconsin.
More here.

CBS, in their most kind benevolence, has put up all three seasons of the original Star Trek (TOS for the real geeks) for streaming video! HERE
It’s a great time to be alive.

Please, please, somebody tell me that Boskone was fun on Saturday (2/16/08). Colin and I checked it out on Sunday (2/17) and frankly it was pretty lame. Nothing much going on, only one fan/attendant was in costume, not even many cool vendors. Walking by the bar when there was supposed to be a “literary beer” [...]

A recent article in the Boston Globe points to Books That Make You Dumb, which correlates “favorite books” lists from Facebook with SAT scores. While drawing such a correlation is probably a bit of a stretch, it is interesting to see what smart- or less-smart people tend to identify as their favorites. And yes, the [...]

Lots of cons coming to the Boston area soon! Two coming up this month: Arisa on January 18-21 at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge; and VeriCon a week later at Harvard University on the 25th to the 27th.
Next month there’s Boskone at the Wesitn Waterfront on February 15-17. And looking ahead to March 21-23 there’s [...]

Okay, Carl was out of town on vacation last week so we skipped a week - again - and he just got back last night (Monday). We did record late last night, but my own catastrophe-du-jour is causing a delay in the editing. It should be up in another day or two… um, hopefully. We [...]

Let’s all raise a glass of bloodwine (or prune juice), and a shout of “Qapla’!” for VarkNa B’traughH, of Lowell, Mass, winner of the Miss Klingon Empire pageant at DragonCon, this past Labor Day weekend.
A short blurb on the pageant is on Daily Dragon.
The Clan B’traighH website is here.