Category: Geeky Fanboy

Although I have been using feed readers for ages (rather than the blogrolling links featured along the side of my site), I hadn’t heard of or made use of Google Reader, so it actually fell to Kate to forge the way into this new bit of lovely geek-toy-ery.
I love it. It’s not a perfect reader by any stretch, but as there isn’t actually a perfect news reader out there, that’s not as big a problem as it might seem at first glance. One of the major benefits Google Reader has over its competitors is that (like GMail, Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheet, and the forthcoming Google-Everything-You-Will-Ever-Need) is that it is accessible anywhere you can access “The Internet.” This is of great benefit to me, as I will routinely use four five different ‘personal’ computers to ‘do stuff’ in the course of any given month, so the less that I have to reinstall and try perfectly replicate my preferred tools on those five different machines, the happier I am. FeedDemon, which is what I’ve been using, is a fantastic tool, but it’s also one of the programs that I MOST dread installing on a new machine, due to the fact that then need to reload all the different web pages I want it to watch.
NO MORE! I had Google reader import my FeedDemon settings this morning and new the deep, heartfelt satisfaction that comes from being really really lazy and, at the same time, knowing I had just added a significant task to the list of Stuff I Don’t Have to Do Again.
Thus: Happy.

Jewel Staite (Firefly’s Kaylee) will be joining Stargate Atlantis for Season Four. I would be more jazzed about this if I had seen even one episode of any of the Stargate shows.

Pan’s Labyrinth looks very very good.

Then make sure that those toys are AWESOME. I present: Ninja Launcher!

Alias – The Complete Collection (Seasons 1-5 Rambaldi artifact box)

NBC ordered an additional 9 episodes of the show, bringing the total up to a full season of 22.

Attention, Robot Chicken fans: a full half-hour of Star Wars-inspired Robot Chicken goodness, financed by Lucasfilm, airing on Superbowl Sunday (probably on a network NOT airing the Superbowl, timed to coincide with the halftime break).

Amazon.com: Dungeons & Dragons: Complete Series

Included in this collectible package is the official “Dungeons & Dragons” hardcover game supplement. Created exclusively for this release by Wizards of the Coast, the Animated Series Handbook is 32 pages of official character profiles with full stats, magic items and a brand new adventure. The adventure is a prelude to the episode “The Dragon’s Graveyard,” designed to bridge the gap between the game and the animated television series. Also included is an Episode Guide Booklet with show’s synopsis, writers, and original air dates.