Category: Geeky Fanboy

The Palm Tungsten C.
My response: eh. I had one of those thumb-pad keypads for my Palm for awhile.
Okay, for about 2 hours. I hated it. I’m not sure that even with all the bells and whistles I would be interested in something that makes it harder to get to my beloved grafitti screen.
Also, I run hot and cold on Wi-Fi. On the one hand, cool. On the other, I really like the stuff I read on Bluetooth.

So after the soccer game on Sunday we went to see X2.
Good stuff. Lots of plot, and a definite improvement in some respects from X-men. I get the distinct feeling that the third movie (and there will obviously be one) will finally bring the whole concept together — the franchise is benefiting from the assumption that they’d always have at least a couple more movies to tell the story — it makes the franchise itself more interesting and lets them tell stronger stories in the time available, since they use the next movie to expand on a Hint from the previous one.
Good stuff. We’ll be going again.
(There’s enough going on in the movie that Justin was losing track of who was allied to to whom as things progressed — we sat around talking about it this morning, lost track of time and pretty soon the bus was pulling up and he didn’t have his socks on yet. I took him to school (the least I could do), but I guess this goes down as his first “I was late for class because I was a geek.” incident.)

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Man… Alias was good tonight.

Eff tells a tale of his geek homeboys coming to town, playing some games and nearly killing each other at the Spaghetti Works.

Mike and Brian sat through the entire episode oddly passive and now seemed disappointed. They were undoubtedly expecting a big haul. When geeks fight, the ground around them is littered with coins. I once made $47 collecting coins after two of these Urkels went at it because one of their characters died in a game.

High-larious. Not something I run into much, since my geek friends all live close and can release pent-up geek pressure at each other at least bi-weekly. Lemme tell you: when it’s been awhile since we’ve all gotten together, things get a little wild, so I can’t IMAGINE…
I mean… imagine Rey if the only time he could really cut loose was about once every six months or so. Hell, imagine ME. Crowds would gather.

Joss Whedon lists his 10 favorite episodes.
Not a one I disagree with, though I might rank them differently. His reasons ‘why’ just kill me.

7. Becoming, Part II (May 19, 1998)
The second-season finale, as Buffy rushes to stop the soul-free Angel from destroying the world. Willow does restore Angel’s soul, but not before he opens a vortex that will suck the world into hell. The only way for Buffy to close the vortex is to kill the man she loves — which she does.

Why does he like it? “Buffy loses everything. Also, it had a sword fight. I love sword fights.”

(via Jules)

Joss Whedon’s often said that one of the things he wanted to accomplish with Buffy was to seep into Pop Culture like a virus. It’s worked, in far more ways than this article lists, but certainly in these as well:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a type of literature. Buffy is a text that people care about. The language used in the show is eloquent, it expresses things very precisely.
One example of precise expression is Xander’s “Does anyone else here feel Keyser Soze’d?” Adams described this morphing from noun to verb as “brilliant,” and it is in its sharp, concise description of being hoodwinked in the most elaborate of ways. It’s a pop-culture reference that turns grammar on its ear in a poetic way. It sort of coaches the audience to then use other references in the same sort of way.

I’ve done that — hell, I did that recently when I described someone with a lot of combat training as being able to “Trinity” a room (been watching Animatrix stuff a lot). My long-time favorites, however will always be words like “Wiggins”, which aren’t mentioned in the article.

Alias – The Complete First Season. Sweet.

Take the Zire frame, give it the same processor, hi-res screen, one-handed navigation tool, and memory capacity as the Tungsten, add a built-in digital camera and MP3 playback…
Then sell it for a hundred bucks less.
Daddy like.