Brendan’s birthday is on Wednesday, so as part of the festivities we’re doing a little father-son bonding today, and driving down to Boston (Framingham) for the following:
The Sci Fi Channel, in partnership with Microsoft, will unspool a special two-hour episode of “Battlestar Galactica” in movie theaters in eight major cities two weeks before it premieres on the network.
The episode, “Razor,” kicks off the final 22-hour season of the series. The theater showings, which are free, take place Nov. 12 in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas and Seattle.
So, that’s a lot of driving to see BSG on the big screen, and I had to nab our passes for us a couple of weeks ago, online. In short, I won’t be blogging after about an hour.
Many happy returns to Brendan, Dan.
Uber-Nerds, eh? How can you be sure until you’ve taken the test? Yes, just How Geeky Are You?
Okay, I’ll go first:
That geekiness test? Total crap.
I object to the “moderate” on SciFi and movie geekiness. Fer crissake, I’ve seen “Greaser’s Palace”, “Forbidden Zone”, and “Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things”. Just because I don’t obsess over trailers, they don’t think I’m a massive movie geek?
Come to think of it, the love geekiness is too low, too.
What were you expecting Cranky? Something thorough and scientific? It’s just for fun. Besides, don’t dismiss it until you’ve taken the Muppet personality test.
Academic Geekiness: High
Fashion Geekiness: High
Gamer Geekiness: Moderate
Movie Geekiness: Moderate
Geekiness in Love: Low
General Geekiness: Low
Music Geekiness: Low
SciFi Geekiness: Low
Internet Geekiness: None
Most of my geekiness is too archaic for the test creators to ask about. Which may actually mean it is cool, but probably not.
Yes, I thought I rated too low in several categories. In love geekiness they didn’t ask the right questions, like: If a woman you’d never met volunteered her spare time to help you dig through musty, 150-year-old land records would you a) Thank her profusely, b) Hire her, or c) Marry her. She already had a better job than I did so I chose “c”.
In fashion geekiness they didn’t ask about plaid shirts, pocket protectors, eye glasses repaired with tape, and the low-slung, fast draw slide rule! Yes, I was a geek before geekiness was kool.
And music geekiness? Puleeze. I’ve fallen so in love with a rare and no longer available antique instrument that I made my own. And I know what musical instrument you play without touching*. That’s geeky.
Sometimes geeky is the only defense.
Sometimes geeky is not enough of a defense, especially when she
matches you in geekiness, and does so in just the right ways.
*sigh*
I may have to make a batch of homebrew to drink my way through the
inevitable heart break.
Sweet, geek soap opera hits the big screen. No wait, that was Daredevil first.
Oh. That. I’m big on the whole pining thing. After you get past the pining thing I’ve noticed things tend to start getting very expensive.
Internet Geekiness: Low
Music Geekiness: Low
Academic Geekiness: None
Fashion Geekiness: None
Gamer Geekiness: None
Geekiness in Love: None
General Geekiness: None
Movie Geekiness: None
SciFi Geekiness: None
Expensive I can deal with.
Rob – How did it go with the librarian?
Oh. I find I regret the expensive long after I get over regretting the it just wasn’t meant to be part. Mostly cause I have a spreadsheet for the expensive part. I can filter it by name.
Still up in the air. Which, I guess, is better than rejection, but still rather hard on the stress levels.
I’m glad that your feet are happy, anyways.