Category: Geeky Fanboy

For those with iTunes: you can now get the first season of Buffy and the first (ha!) season of Firefly via iTunes.

Via SEB: Original ‘Star Wars’ films coming to DVD – Sept 12, 2006

The original theatrical versions of the first three “Star Wars” films are finally coming to DVD on September 12, two years after diehard fans blasted George Lucas for releasing only the digitally modified 2004 versions of the celebrated trilogy in a boxed collection.

I will HAPPILY and PROUDLY point out that I didn’t buy the ‘new’ versions of Episodes 4 through 6 when they came out on DVD, because I wanted the undoctered versions far, far, more.
Vader says “Bring me my Shuttle,” dammit, and Han shoots first. That. Is how. It happened.
Ahem. I’ll be having these, yes.

The Je Joue programmable massager.

“The great thing about foreplay is that unlike doing it yourself, you don’t quite know what’s coming next,” he says. “There’s a sense of ‘otherness,’ which is very exciting. It’s unpredictable. I wondered why you can’t have a product that does that. It’s not trying to replace a person, but it’s easy enough to have a programmable product that has enough ability and variability to be able to surprise you.”

The passage above, incidentally, is how I found the Wired article, via a perfectly innocent Google search. I swear!

If you like what it’s doing and you want more, you can adjust the intensity or speed with a press of a button. To make sure it keeps doing what it’s doing, press and hold the “don’t stop” button.

I’m sorry, but that’s awesome. All technology should have a “don’t stop” button.

Older ones – but I like the character descriptions better (they read like Heroquest attributes, actually).

• Jayne: Mercenary. Tough. Easy to bribe. Fond of grenades.
• Kaylee: Mechanic. Sweet. Sexy. Hot on machines.
• Wash: Pilot. Funny. Level headed. Soars like a bird.

Newer ones – better images, but the character aspects listed aren’t nearly as interesting or succinct.

The ThinkGeek :: Joss Whedon is my Master Now t-shirt is overstocked and selling cheap…

The Sci-Fi Channel (U.S.) will be showing a Firefly Marathon on March 10th ~ the episodes will start with the pilot “Serenity” and continue in original (intended) order through to “Out of Gas”.

Joss Whedon and Warren Ellis “flamewar” at Warrenellis.com » The Long March To Nerd Prom Begins

This is just like the Algonquin round table, except there’s only two of us, and no table, and no particular surfeit of wit, and no great certainty about how spell ‘Algonquin’. Huzzah!

(via ktbuffy) :)

Elayne writes:

You were the first person I ever heard talk about Firefly, and I wondered what on earth you were so het up about. Then I saw the movie Serenity, and someone said, “Yeah, it’s based on the series Firefly,” and I went “ooooooooooooh,” and rented the first DVD of the series. The next day, I went out and BOUGHT the entire first series, and have been cultivating a stalkerish one-sided love affair with Mal Reynolds (that’s right; I’m in lust with the character, not the actor) ever since. I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but I checked your “geeky fanboy” archives and didn’t see anything – a reader of my blog just posted a link to Joss Whedon’s Firefly, Season 2 – apparently a fan-club is trying to work out a way to get a second series. I don’t know what the odds are (or whether the actors, writers, Joss Whedon, etc are aware of this/willing to do it) but I thought I’d drop you a line anyway in case you somehow missed it, and also to apologize for all those times I thought “What on earth is he even TALKING about?!” (c:

I love that I’ve turned even one person onto the show. I love that people bring stuff like this to me. Just gives me a happy. :)