April 13th, 2009
“Geeks are people who get turned on by ideas” whether that’s about spider powers or quantum mechanics. —Jim Kakalios
By day he studies nanotechnology. By night he, well I’ve no idea what his night time activities are. I do know he wrote The Physics of Superheroes and apparently does lectures on the content of that book.
“I don’t go to these movies with a pad of paper and a calculator.” But he delights in finding snippets of accuracy in films, which to him, “is like finding an inside joke.” In Iron Man, for instance, he noticed that star Robert Downey, Jr.’s character, Tony Stark, constructed the superhuman Iron Man suit using the same type of soldering iron Kakalios has in his lab—and correctly!
I never would have guessed that. Not in one million years. Kakalios talks more on the scientific accuracy of WATCHMEN here.
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March 2nd, 2009
It’s happened before.
It’ll happen again.
Gods help you if you’re not watching the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica. I hear random factions of The Internet may be unsatisfied with what they’re getting. I disagree with The Internet. With the exception of one episode, I’ve enjoyed the frak out of the final archival tapes.
If you’re more than a year behind, I can’t help you. If you, like me, wait with bated breath for the end of season four, the 21st century answer to missed shows has your backs. Hulu will beam BSG love into your personal computing devices.
But enough about that. Let’s talk splash pages. I won’t bore you with the back story on how long it took me to settle on an angle for this theme. I’ll only say that the minute the comics angle entered my brain, everything fell into place.
This splash will have only a few days showing in it’s full HTML glory. A certain movie release has asked to temporarily bump any small screen admiration off its pedestal for a short time.
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July 27th, 2008
I love watching artists work. It’s like quantifiable magic. It’s magic cause drawing is something I just cannot do.
Just learned of Ben Bishop’s first book, Nathan the Caveman, via a short review on Pulp Secret.
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