Are We Sure Whedon Is Married To A Woman?

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

Personal BSG Update: Done With Season 3, Watching Season 4

I finally finished Season 3 of BSG, and I'm almost caught up with Season 4. I have all of the episodes of the latter on my DVR.

Who still has VCRs? And of those, who wants tapes of Season 4? I'm debating buying a DVD recorder, but I question whether I can get it to work with my ancient TV. Thus, I'm also debating buying a new TV...

You really, really should see this shit.

Pegged My Geek-O-Meter

I saw this bumper sticker on my way out this morning and tried to take a picture of it.


It reads: gorram = frell x frack^2. Only in a NASA engineering town...

I want one.

Good BSG News

SciFi has decided to pick up BSG Caprica, the on-again, off-again prequel pilot/miniseries.

Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

I don't know why I missed this before, and it wouldn't surprise me if everyone is already aware of this, but if not, you should know, if you're a true toaster. SciFi has a page setup so that BSG fans can create their own short videos. To aid fans, they have put up several tools that you can use including videos, sound effects, and music. You can watch videos that were made there as well. Amusing if nothing else. Also several hundred fan constructed videos up on YouTube, just search 'bsg fan vid'.



Also, if you haven't visited this site, how can you call yourself a true fan?

An Unexpected Find

I'm with my I'd Offer You Some, But They Mine friends this weekend, and we went to their local strange tanning booth/used book store right down the road today. I regularly look for an entertaining/ridiculous Christian-based eschatology or creationism book (I got this one last time). But while looking through a stack of books about Jesus and infinity, I found a precious jewel.

Have you ever read Cordwainer Smith? If not, I recommend getting his complete short story collection immediately and reading it beginning to end: it is some of the strangest, compelling, and--best of all--cohesive short story science fiction ever written. No one figured out that his little-read, seemingly unrelated short stories and his one sci-fi novel were actually all parts of one huge story until long after he died.

So here's another cool thing about Cordwainer Smith: he wrote one of the first--and still one of the definitive--books on psychological warfare during WW2. It's called, oddly enough, Psychological Warfare; and he used his real name for it...Dr. Linebarger. Guess what I found in the stacks of this backwater used book store for $4? The second edition of this book (revised shortly after Korea). It's been out of print for years; when I found it I let out a gay geek gasp.

Smith/Linebarger led a life less ordinary; you will die a lesser person if you do not explore his works. I was lucky to find one of his nonfictions ones.