Seeing A Full Moon During The Day – “That’s no moon” I think, but…isn’t it?  Then I spend the next fifteen minutes giving the moon shifty eyes cause I really can’t tell for sure, that crater sure does look like the laser bay…

You've made me double take for the last time moon!

Using My Phone As A Flashlight – “Hmm…can’t see…I know–my phone creates light!”  But there are no handles, so I have to hold the phone just so with my hand, then I have to hold a Riker-on-an-away-team pose while I look for the light switch.

The internet has no pictures of Riker on an away team. There goes that joke.

Tablet Computers – Whenever I see one I immediately feel like doing a level three diagnostic then reporting my findings to Geordi and Data.

Chopsticks – They are dangerous dangerous things.  I’m just one crazy cylon kidnapping away from a neck stabbing.

Building Parking Garages/Maintenance Areas – So many conduits and pipes!  All I need to do is find a small hallway  and I’m immediately in the guts of a spaceship.  Maybe I’ll bring a cool roll up piano (whoever gets the reference gets points!!!)

(Ok, I couldn’t wait, everybody gets points!)

This one probably won't land on your neighbor's roof.

Frisbees - My husband tells a story of how disappointed he was about getting a Frisbee for a present when he was a kid and it wasn’t anything like Tron.  There were several points in my youth when I tried to throw one like Xena’s chakram.  Let’s just say things don’t go according to plan.  (note, I tried to find the chakram I made out of cardboard when I was 13, but only found the script of an episode I won in a trivia contest at my first convention.)

It may be $20 more, but frak me those $20 are worth not waiting in line for three to four hours.

DragonCon, that is. After not sleeping at all and heading to the airport at an unearthly hour, checking a bag that weighed exactly 50 lbs, declining to bump to an 11:30 pm flight, I am now in a giant security line waiting.

On a side note, it was my now completed Clara costume that resulted in not sleeping. Don’t worry, pictures to come.

it's fhtagning awesome!

But just when you thought your were going to go insane from the awesome, she also has new Eye of Sauron soap.  If that doesn’t make me excited and quest filled every time I hop in the shower I’m not sure what will.

includes the sweet scent of sandlewood and power

I had a virtual sit down with Geeky Cleans proprietor to talk about her quest for awesome.

Earthbending smells sorta like grass, firebending smelled like roguish danger

Earth Bending!  Who wants to have to carry a little bottle of water around everywhere anyway?

Am I the only one that remembers him?

Brachiosaurus?  Perfect question!  I really am a dinosaur NUT!  I read the Michael Crichton novel so many times that it fell apart.  I’d have to be a Tyrannosaurus!  I’d go back to Jurassic Park 2 and set that frakkin’ Spinosaurus straight for killing my pal!

Get it, they're in amber! hee!

I think nerdy soap is right up there with nerdy tee shirts for things that make me happy, thanks for playing!

But what really made my day was cracking open a box of comic books I hadn’t opened since 1989.  The piles of Junior Woodchucks, Porky Pigs and Bugs Bunnies were cute, the small collection of gothic horror comics held up well today, and I loved thumbing through my old Transformers collection, but this one stood out enough for me to share it with you:

“Tandy Computer Whiz Kids,” a seemingly exciting adventure involving kidnapping and computers — two mainstays of 1980s after-school fare. What’s that down in the corner? “Compliments of Radio Shack?” pay it no mind — I’m sure Radio Shack has nothing to do with it.

Not long into the adventure, the plucky Tandy Computer Whiz Kids get a high-tech addition to their classroom: A New and appropriately labeled Tandy Color Computer 2. With a Color Disk Drive (somebody explain THAT one to me), and most importantly, a DCM-3 Modem!

How did they afford such status-ish nerdbling? By selling designer drugs on the streets of suburban Peoria? Of course not. And a Color Computer wasn’t all they bought — they also picked up one of those 200-in-one Electronic Kits (lucky bastards — I only had the 50-in-1).

The plot thickens, because something happened to somebody or something that I couldn’t quite make out between all the product placement. Urgency turns to danger, as the kids’ teacher pulls out her RS Cellular Phone (let’s all take three collective guesses on what the RS stands for). It’s cute retro-technology, but I’m sure they’ll move on soon enough.

…or not. Detective Sly McMustache wants a crack at that sweet piece. (I mean the RS Cellular Phone ™. What else?)

ENOUGH WITH THE PHONE. HOLY CRAP! There’s at least 3 pages of exciting Phone Call Action!

Finally free of the annoyance that was that lunchbox-sized phone, the kids have to get that computer online FAST. Get ready with the acoustic couplers! On the plus side, we’re pretty much free of the product placement now….

…dammit.

Then the kids type some stuff into a BBS, spend an hour downloading a picture of a kitten in 4 colors, and the mystery is solved. Or something. I don’t know, but detective ‘Stache McPocketpager got all the credit. If I could only be as cool as those kids… if only there was some way I could have access to that sweet technology. Oh, well. That could never happen in real life. I’ll just close my comic and…

Oh.

Lately I have been hanging out up in some mountain resorts and condos over the weekend, just relaxing, shedding the stress and listening to some great music at Deer Valley with the Utah Symphony. And when the lights would go down and I snuggled into bed I would flip on the good ole tele which was everpresent in every room.

And immediately I would fill myself with the joys of channel surfing, random commercials. Most of the time I would settle on Food Network because lord knows I have to get me some Iron Chef America any time it is possible. But I was also exposed to the joys of something called The Deadliest Warrior which pitted Ninja vs Spartan and Pirate vs French Knight. Any one with half a brain knew the Pirate would win against a FRENCH Knight.

And over the past week thanks to Battle Pacific Cod and Battle Banana I had begun to look into satellite television once again. And I am pretty sure that if I found that $24.99 a month forever price I would not be writing this right now. But nope, sure that price point was there, but only for a year before jumping above $50 bucks. And then there is considering hulu plus.

But what is it what I really want? Can’t I just pay individual networks and cable channels for direct access to their feed over the interwebs? Matter of fact, maybe we should tell the Geek6 IT department to design a nifty GUI that will management my channels. Perhaps a program that looks like a….tv! With channels!

But think about it. If you can get about 150 channels for 55 bucks a month, that means a channel clocks in around $0.36 a channel. So let’s call it an even $0.50 for this be all new and fancy. So what do I need? NBC, CBS, ABC, The CW, TNT, ESPN, ESPN2, SyFy, Food Network, The Cooking Channel, The Cartoon Network. Maybe Disney for the son. 12 channels. $6 a month for tv. Heck throw in a couple more channels and knock that up to $10 a month. Do that an I am yours.

It doesn’t even have to be on demand. Just a simple feed of its signal. They can even toss in internet commercials during the normal breaks. That means I have to come to it instead of it coming to me. Miss a show? Find it later online somewhere. It is even a natural progression with internet television sets hitting the market.

And all that I enjoy for a reasonable price. And the network gets it viewers to watch their shows and advertisements. Money goes right into their pocket instead of filtered through greedy cable systems. In my head it is simple. What is it in their heads?

Coming soon….Geek6TV….if I can get the right people to listen to me.

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