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  • This Week in Geek (6/15-6/21)

    This Week in Geek (6/15-6/21)

    On June 19, 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation, first issued in January 1863, was read in Texas, the most remote of the U.S. states that had rebelled in the American Civil War. The date, which has come to be known as Juneteenth, Freedom Day, and other names, is celebrated as the end of slavery in the United States, and a day to honor the contributions of African Americans to the nation’s history.

    This week, Geek Unified Theory will be sharing several stories to do just that. On #TrekTuesday, we will post a story about Star Trek and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. For Comic Book Wednesday, we will discuss the history of black superheroes. Thursday Game Night will feature a story about African Americans in the game industry, and SFF Friday will showcase African American science fiction and fantasy writers. (more…)

  • This Week in Geek (6/1-6/7)

    This Week in Geek (6/1-6/7)

    Birthdays

    1: Morgan Freeman (1937); Rene Auberjonois (1940); Brian Cox (1946); Tom Holland (1996)
    2: Lester Del Rey (1915); Sally Kellerman (1937); Anthony Montgomery (1971); Wentworth Miller (1972); Zachary Quinto (1977); Nikki Cox (1978); Dominic Cooper (1978); Morena Baccarin (1979); Jewel Staite (1982)
    3: Maurice Evans (1901); Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930); Penelope Wilton (1946); John Dykstra (1947); Melissa Mathison (1950); Robert Z’Dar (1950); Suzie Plakson (1958); James Purefoy (1964)
    4: Bruce Dern (1936); Keith David (1956); Sean Pertwee (1964); Noah Wyle (1971); James Callis (1971); Angelina Jolie (1975); Jordan Hinson (1991);
    5: John Abbott (1905); Robert Lansing (1928); Kathleen Kennedy (1953); Karen Strassman (1966); Mark Wahlberg (1971)
    6: Joan Marshall (1931); Robert Englund (1947); Gary Graham (1950); Amanda Pays (1959); Jason Isaacs (1963); Kyra Zagorsky (1976); Daniel Logan (1987)
    7: Frank Bolle (1924); Liam Neeson (1952); Bobby Di Cicco (1954); Mark Ryan (1956); Dayton Ward (1967); Francis Magee (1969); Anthony Simcoe (1969); Karl Urban (1972); Dave Filoni (1974); Anna Torv (1979); Michael Cera (1988)

    Events

    3: First appearance of Kryptonite: The Adventures of Superman (Radio): “The Meteor from Krypton” Part 1 (1943)

    Anniversaries

    1: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984); Orphan Black season 1 finale: “Endless Forms Most Beautiful” (2013)
    2: Space: Above and Beyond finale: “…Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best” (1996); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine finale: “What You Leave Behind” (1999); Stitchers premiere: “A Stitch in Time” (2015)
    3: Star Trek finale: “Turnabout Intruder” (1969); Babylon 5: “Darkness Ascending” (1998); Star Wars: “Shatterpoint” by Matthew Stover (2003)
    4: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
    5: Gog (1954); Doomwatch season 3 premiere: “Fire and Brimstone” (1972); The 4400 season 2 premiere: “Wake-Up Call” (2005); Stitchers season 3 premiere: “Out of the Shadows” (2017); A Stitch in Time (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #27) by Andrew J. Robinson (2000)
    6: SpaceCamp (1986); Edge of Tomorrow (2014); Impulse debuts on YouTube Originals (2018)
    7: Perversions of Science premieres (1997); Farscape season 4 premieres (2002)


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  • These are a few of my favorite things

    These are a few of my favorite things

    Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 1984. I’m six (“and a half!”) years old, and this is the year I would discover some seriously cool stuff: Transformers and G.I. Joe. While G.I. Joe had debuted two years earlier, and my older brother, Kevin, doubtless had some of the toys, I didn’t really notice that stuff until after I’d turned six. At this point, I was beginning to become one of the “big kids,” and my tastes in toys reflected that. The fact that, a year later in 1985, both toy lines would have TV shows – which were, really, little better than half-hour-long daily commercials for said toys – certainly aided in my discovery. That year also saw the release of a new cartoon in the U.S.: Robotech, and by 1986, I’d also discovered Voltron, another Japanese import. Add these to my existing love of the Star Wars toys, and I’m shocked my mother was able to refrain from causing physical harm to myself or my brother whenever we happened to pass a toy aisle when we’d go shopping.
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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-04

    • Saw Transformers 2. Not great, but not horrible. It is exactly what Bay is best at: paper-thin plot, hot chicks, & lots of kewl ‘splosions #
    • DO WANT! RT @thinkgeek “What happens in the holodeck stays in the holodeck” tshirt, mens: http://cli.gs/QSu58t womens: http://cli.gs/ge8aTq #
    • @NathanFillion You didn’t steal anything. You appropriated assets in lieu of additional monetary compensation for your services. #
    • All right! I’ve got 8 hours of class starting in 3-1/2 hours and I didn’t get ANY sleep last night! #
    • Aw crap. Just found out about paperwork I had to file last mo for GI Bill that’s gonna delay my check up to a mo. I need it for rent on Fri! #
    • Despite operating only on 2 hours of sleep that I grabbed between 7&9am, I did OK at school today. Even got 100% on my speech this pm #
    • Best thing about my Yoda lunch box: picnicing on the quad between classes every day #
    • Have to give 2-3 min memorized speech from history or film. Think I’ll do Sisko’s log entry at the end of the DS9 ep For the Uniform #
    • Whoops. Meant I’m going to do part of Sisko’s log from DS9’s In the Pale Moonlight. “Most damning of all… I think I can live with it.” #
    • Wow. Gorgeous redhead in shorts laying on a blanket & reading a book across the quad. #
    • It’s definitely a holiday weekend. Getting loaded down w homework by my professors #
    • What? Can it be true? Do I actually have a date this weekend? Survey says “yes.” #
    • “A girl who can tie a knot in the fiber which encircles the kernel of a nut is sure to be married.” Yep, that’s a vital skill all right #
    • My life’s a soap opera. Friends dying in Iraq & car crashes. Brain tumors. Cancer. Psycho exes. Name a cliche and I’ve probably lived it. #
    • RT @BadAstronomer WOOHOO! LRO first light images of the Moon! AWESOME pictures! http://tr.im/qEKL #
    • HA! RT @mashable Reading: “64 percent Say Too Much Jackson Coverage”…the ad above the article is amusingly ironic: http://bit.ly/amvGb #
    • @gadgetdoll One of my friends suggested we should call it As JeffreysWorld.net Turns LOL in reply to gadgetdoll #
    • RT @def_leppard Free Def Leppard concert tickets for military personnel and veterans! See http://bit.ly/uHEGX for details. #
    • @gimliaxewielder Both B & C: we’re watching Star Trek and I’m making dinner. in reply to gimliaxewielder #
    • Can’t seem to get the dropdown menu for kingdom-con.com to work, but everything else is looking ok, at least. #
    • @Quarksbartender that is is obviously one of the beer tap handles from Quark’s. Used to get Blood Draft & Romulan Ale from you all the time in reply to Quarksbartender #
    • @wilw Please, we want to be all “HOLY CRAP!” Spill! #
    • Upgrading my computer to Ubuntu 9.04 (I know, it came out 3 months ago). Need to do some laundry, grocery shopping, maybe wash my truck too. #
    • majorly updated http://www.kingdom-con.com and am currently working on the forum skin. Will work on the dropdown menu CSS issue later #

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  • found the coolest toy

    I was at the BX today and found the coolest Optimus Prime figure I’ve ever seen:

    Optimus Prime

    It’s the “War Within” design from the comic of the same name, set soon after Optimus Prime was given the Matrix, so he doesn’t have a human-based vehicle mode. It’s die-cast metal like the original toys in the 80s, and unlike the statues released of this design, it actually transforms into the Cybertronian vehicle mode. Best of all, it was only $15!