Kaaaaaaaaaahhnnn!!!!

A few years ago, inspired in part by the Story of the Christmas Pants, I decided to make Christmas with the Kornfelds a little more interesting. That year, as it happened, I gave everyone either a giftcard or tickets. They received them in an Altoids tin, locked with a miniature padlock, and a clue to where I had [...]

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry died of leukemia last thursday, December 18th. She portrayed the characters Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek TOS, and Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek TNG. She also provided the computer’s voice in all Trek movies and series, except Enterprise. She was the widow of Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek franchise.
More here.

The 2009 Boston con season is about to begin!
First up is Arisia,  January 16-19 at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge.
Boskone is up next at the Westin Waterfront, Frebruary 13-15.
AnimeBoston will be late this year – not til May 22-24 – at the Hynes. BTW, my inside source at AB assures me that the registration issues that resulted [...]

Maybe you already know some of these, maybe you don’t.
Cafe Press is a great source for unique gifts for just about anyone. You can choose from thousands of items that other people have already designed or upload your own designs for a more personal touch. Be sure to consult the product templates page so your gifts [...]

Great Stuff!
Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode II

Yeah, yeah, it’s been a long while since the last podcast. Not sure how soon we’ll be able to get together for a new one, what with the (like it or not) holiday season upon us and all. He’re’s a few things for you to do in the meantime.
Video Games Live concert at the Citi Center on Friday [...]

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 [...]