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Been a long time, been a long time…

I’ve gotten some emails from some of you out there about the fact that there hasn’t been a blog posting here in a looooooooong time. I wanted to take a moment out of everything that’s going on here and respond to some of the concerns that I’ve seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth. Well, back shortly before Christmas, the wonderful woman who loves my geekiness found a lump. Needless to say, my mind has been somewhere else for the last couple of months. Since the initial diagnosis we’ve now gone through more tests, MRIs and mammograms than I can remember, two surgeries, we start the chemo regimen this week (3/4), and radiation after that.

This blog was, and still is, very important to me. It gave me a creative outlet when I felt I needed more. Now that I have more on my plate than I can really handle, it might be a while between posts. It’s hard to get excited about tech and sci-fi when the woman you love is getting ready to go through the roughest experience of her life. I’ll gladly miss the “Watchmen” premier this weekend to be with her, no contest.

Anyway, since it had been so long since I’d checked in, and I see quite a number of new visitors here since BSG kicked off again (frak, I have to talk about that show sometime, my theories were close but didn’t quite pan out), I wanted to make sure you all knew we were still alive, which is a triumph…

The Periodic Table of Awesoments

The table of awesome

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Field correspondent/ninja/pirate/LeMons crew member Beth sends in the best compilation I think I’ve seen on various degress of awesome, the Periodic Table of Awesomenets. Bacon, ninjas, Chuck Norris, quite a lot of awesoments included here though there are yet a few undiscovered ones as well. What would you add to complete the table? Read the story »

J.J. Abrams loves to hide Easter Eggs - The Observer in “Fringe”

Fringe, best new sci-fi show IMO

One of my favorite new shows this season is “Fringe”, the new J.J. Abrams science-fiction-kinda-mystery show on Fox. It’s been called an X-Files for this generation, which I can kind of see as I used to watch the X-Files and liked the weird things they would try to figure out from week to week. Aside from Dr. Walter Bishop (singlehandedly the best thing to happen to Sci-Fi television since . . . Hurley’s “Duuuude” lines I guess), this show has the trademark Abrams nuggets that you probably miss the first time you see the show, but just amaze you when you go back for a second watch to get the details. “The Observer” is one of those awesome details. More on that, and video after the jump. Read the story »

Guitar Hero World Tour played on a bike?

No, really. This has got to be the most awesome and well planned out thing I have ever seen. Last week, I picked up the new Guitar Hero World Tour for the Wii and have been having fun with it with the kids. Introducing them to drums, singing (or just random sound effects during a song) and guitar on the new beginner level has been a blast, as well as all the new songs since we’ve really been stuck with the ones on GH3 for a while now with no downloadable content on the Wii (and, no, GH: Aerosmith doesn’t count…). Anyway, someone took one of the better songs included and through some creative and well coordinated and timed help from some friends, rode his bike through the note chart for “Prisoner of Society” by The Living End. I don’t even want to know how many times they had to try this before they pulled it off. Full video after the jump. Read the story »