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Chuck Norris – Eat Your Vegetables!
Continuing in the geektasticness that is May the 4th, I saw this on Facebook this morning. Caption reads: Molly Weasley makes Chuck Norris eat his vegetables. Thanks to Madeline for sharing. And that...
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Random Fun Stuff
What if all the Avengers characters posed like female superheroes? Seen on Twitter. Awesome USB drive Thanks for the tip, Paul! Pro-Vaccination Billboard Photographed by moi on southbound 94 in...
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6 O’Clock BS – Board and Card Games
Something fun and light-hearted for this Friday’s 6 O’Clock BS, I think. Since it is Geek Pride Day (many froody returns) I think that board and card games would be a fitting subject. I grew up with...
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Science Puns for Lunch
On today’s lunch menu: Science puny goodness. I made this: Cooh story, bro. And a coworker told the joke that inspired this: I’ll send the first commenter who correctly identifies the pun being made in...
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6 O’Clock BS: Kitteh Film Festival
Oh yes. This is happening. The world-famous, dare I say hallowed, Walker Art Center will be hosting an outdoor Internet Cat Video Film Festival this August 30th in Minneapolis. From the Walker Blog:...
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I Blame Adam Huber
What follows is a mostly true accounting of this evening’s events. I’m a huge fan of Adam Huber’s webcomic, Bug. I’m such a fan, in fact, that tonight I went to his website looking for a merch page. I...
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The Jellyfish Tragedy
This is a post by guest blogger Ellen Bulger, written during the cold and long winter of December 2010. Winsor Locks, CT In a rarely-seen or photographed event, thousands of hapless jellyfish on their...
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Gaylaxicon Fun
This weekend I’m at a GLBT Science Fiction/Fantasy Convention called Gaylaxic0n. It’s a national event, and it’s being hosted in Minneapolis this year. It’s a smaller, more relaxed convention; I’d...
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JT and JTs Videogameathonapalooza!
The first game system I played was the Atari 2600. I have memories of playing E.T., Berzerk, Pitfall, Asteroid, Space-Invaders, Frogger and DigDug. I still remember the pain of Atari Thumb. Breakout...
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Happy New Year – With Butter!
Eye-roll warning – Below is way too much modern city-person excitement about discovering a process that’s been known to this world for thousands of years and probably a number of young students who...
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Sims Cosplay
I play Sims3 – my “best friend” got me into it and I just get drawn in for hours trying to improve my skill levels and find rocks and meet objectives, and fulfilling wishes and goals, juggling multiple...
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HabitRPG
My Life – The Role Playing Game: I am totally geeking out about HabitRPG. I’ve been using it since Tuesday and I just spent the last 30 minutes helping The Hubby set up an account. Since Tuesday I’ve...
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Goodbye, Dear Samples.
When in the Course of sample shelf life stability, it becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the emotional bands which have connected her with these samples, and to assume among the powers of...
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OmegaCon Spring 2014
I’m sitting in a large hotel room in Siren, Wisconsin eating a luxoriously hoity-toighty picnic of rice-stuffed grape leaves, Molinari Finocchiona salame, and a variety of fancy cheeses – Gorgonzola,...
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CONvergence Programming Is Announced!
I’m very excited for CONvergence this year. Not only is it my first year as an Invited Participant, but I made it onto FIVE panels, including an author reading which I’m organizing (more on that...
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Cosplay: We Made A Thing Today!
One of my favorite things about CONvergence -and of which there are many – is all of the cosplay. The Hubby and I love to people-watch, and we like to dress up when it’s creative and convenient. This...
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Godless Gamers Game Night
Tonight I left work and headed over to the Fantasy Flight Games Center in Roseville for Godless Gamers Game Night, a recurring Meetup hosted by Minnesota Atheists. A fair number of people showed up –...
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Cons and Cons and Cons, Oh My!
Whew – It has been a month for conventions! First and most exciting: The Secular Women Work Kickstarter was fully funded on the 19th. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who worked so hard to...
View ArticleDie Laughing – An Interview with Tim Wick
This weekend a very special, very weird event will take place at the DoubleTree in Bloomington, Minnesota: Die Laughing 2: Laugh Harder, a 50 hour comedy marathon fundraiser for Fearless Comedy...
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Last Minute Costuming for ChiFi
Always with the last minute hiccups and fixes. Thanks to a delivery that didn’t arrive on time, this is my night: But it’s okay because the costume is going to be awesome. The Hubby and I are getting...
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