[  Mood: Silly ]
[ Currently: About to put the boy back to bed ]
Since the memes will not stop until morale improves, we at RevolutionSF take a stand.

RevolutionSF co-founder Joe Crow started one, a nerdy one for you to send to irritate everyone who is trying to make you tell 38 personal tidbits about yourself to everyone and their mama. And appear cool while doing it.

15 NERDY NOTIONS
1. Answer these questions using the first letter of your first name.
B. You can’t use the same word twice. (Part of a title is OK, but you can’t use "Batman" as every answer. That would be crazy.)
3. Multiple word answers are OK.
4. If the so-called "friend" who sent it to you has the same first letter as you, you have to use different answers than them. Brutal, we know.
5. Snarky comments are encouraged.

1. Star Wars character: Biggs Darklighter – yeah, I know his last name. Cause I am that cool.
2. Star Trek character: Duras, son of Ja’rod – Notice I left the entire Dax clan for the rest of you.
3. 80s cartoon character: Duke – Obvious, but the blonde hair won me over
4. Marvel superhero: Dazzler – worst hero ever
5. DC supervillain: Deathstroke the Terminator – True Story – I knew someone who wanted to date him
6. Superpower: Disappearing – good for late night parties at the Buy More
7. SF, fantasy, horror book title: Dungeons and Dragons – I think I lose my con cred if I don’t include this
8. Sci-fi-ish gadget, device, or weapon: disruptor – such a pleasant euphamism for killing you by scattering your nuclii
9. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror movie: Dungeons and Dragons – double the Ds, double the cool
10. Sci-fi-ish TV show: Dungeons and Dragons – I am getting lazy here
11. Monster, creature, or alien race: Drazi- notice how I have moved beyond Star Trek and Star Wars.
12. Actor from sci-fi stuff: DeForrest Kelly – BONES!!!!!!!
13. DC superhero: Duplicate Boy – I could have done Doctor Fate, but it lacks the lameness of the 60s Legion
14. Marvel villain: Doughboy – Doctor Doom was way too obvious, and besides, how can you go wrong with the mirror universe Pillsbury spokesperson
15. Whedonverse character: Daniel "Oz" Osbourne – again, I rock

[  Mood: Sleepy ]
[ Currently: Going to try and put the boy asleep again! ]
Con cred is like street cred, but related to that most geel of activities, the convention.

I invented it at 4:00 am, so it must be brilliant. Go forth and use it wisely.

AILWR = An Incredibly Long Winded Review, cause I have a lot to say.

Part travel log, part ethnography, part cookbook, Beyond the Great Wall is absolutely stunning. The whole work focuses on the other China, specifically the non-Han population. The authors have called this area "Beyond the Great Wall", but that title is misleading as some of the cultures examined are actually within the traditionally Han areas.

While the recipes are wonderful, showing you how to make traditional foods with ingredients you can find in North Amnerican stores, it is the ethnographies that are truely valuable. Easy to read, through these you learn about people like the Uighurs, the Hmong and the Yi. By giving you their religious background, geographical location, climate and religion, the authors help the reader understand where the food comes from.

Intersperced among the recipes are vignettes of authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid’s travels through this China. Completely genuine and enchanting, you accompany them on motorcycle rides through high mountains, sharing a meal of butter tea with tsampa in Tibet and watching nan-like bread being made by many groups. Not all are about food, thereby avoiding a sense of sameness that would make the book boring. It is a different world.

The photographs are absolutely stunning. A variety of faces, ethinic clothing, landscapes and freeze frames of every day life (all taken by the authors) make this book a perfect addition to the coffeetable.

Serious cooks will take the time to make these recipes (I may make the Mongolian Lamb Patties and the Pea Tendril Salad), but most will just look at the pictures and dream of voyages they will never take and the meals they will never eat.

[  Mood: Silly ]
[  Currently: Listening to CBC Radio ]
Television Without Pity (TWOP) used to do these wonderful photoshop contests where board members would manipulate pictures to fit certain themes. There were no prizes, but you would get positive feedback. Given that they were taken over by NBC, these have disappeared. And given the state of NBC, the whole site might disappear, so I thought I mightpost some of my contributions to that great time.

The three below are from the contest relating to dream casting of the upcoming Star Trek movie.

This one I like cause it has a Canuck playing the part originally played by a Canuck. (Lovingly crafted from a Star Trek Inspirational Posters)

This one came out of the roadtrip relationship between Sylar and Mohinder. (Also lovingly crafted from a Star Trek Inspirational Posters)

And this one, includes the mascot of TWOP (Tubey)

[  Mood: Amused ]
[  Currently: Watching Rick Mercer Report ]
You may remember this story.

Well I went a little crazy and sent Joe a billion suggestions for other geek related sign messages. He wasn’t able to use them, but they were too good not to share. Imagine these on your local highway.

Use the force
Shields!
Save the cheerleader! Save the world!
Who are you? What do you want?
The hammer is my penis.
"Ta ma de."
The Truth is Out There
Cheverons locked!
grrr arrg
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
By your command
Exterminate!
It’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people.
Olympia!
To infinity! And beyond!
Never give up! Never surrender!
ET Phone Home!
Avengers Assemble!
Transmute!
By the power of Greyskull!
Frak
I got a bad feeling about this
Bad Wolf
Thunderbirds Go!
Lois must die!
Get bent.
Where was the earthshattering kaboom? There was supposed to have been an earthshattering kaboom!
You damned dirty ape!
Holy rusted metal, Batman!
In space no one can hear you scream.