New Geek Life: Who Needs Show Notes?
A new episode of The Geek Life is live! I see that Mike has titled it, rather accurately, “Who Needs Show Notes? Melissa Has Scotch!” Enjoy!
A new episode of The Geek Life is live! I see that Mike has titled it, rather accurately, “Who Needs Show Notes? Melissa Has Scotch!” Enjoy!
On Sunday, I attended at the MCBA Springcon comic book convention. Usually, I either have a table there, or I wander around taking photos. This time, I mostly just chatted with people I knew. I do miss being more involved with the MCBA shows, which happen twice per year in St. …
“What the barking frogs is an intervalometer?!” I hear you say. It’s a widget that you connect to a camera, which causes the camera to shoot images at controlled intervals. In other words, it will make my Sony a580 shoot time-lapse movies. Now that I’m done jumping up and down with …
A Request, a photo by Chebutykin on Flickr. Via Flickr: I keep photos from my Galapagos trip on my desk at work. The VP of my division loves them, and in the past has bugged me to rotate them more often. He’s going to a different position in a different …
As one final nod to my Ebertfest 2012 road trip, I give you the amusing quotes that I noted during the week and a half I spent on the road. Enjoy! “Snuggles from Kiev! You’re on the air!” – Ken Hite “‘Watch the extended cut of Rob Zombie’s Woolite commercial!’ …
On the 5th and final day of Ebertfest, only one film was scheduled: the legendary Citizen Kane. I didn’t go. Don’t get me wrong. I love Citizen Kane. But they weren’t playing Citizen Kane straight up. They were playing it with Roger Ebert’s commentary track. Don’t get me wrong. I love …
At CONvergence this year, I will be on my annual “[Creature] in Fact, Folklore, Fiction, and Film” panel, and this year’s iteration will honor PRIMATES! Thus, I need help of the Internet hivemind to create a list of media (books, movies, TV shows, video games, etc.) that feature primates (monkeys, apes, lemurs, etc.). …
I was out walking for an afternoon break, and I happened upon another wounded butterfly. This time, the victim was a Mourning Cloak Butterfly (Nymphalis antiopa), which has a vast range across both America and Europe. It wasn’t keen on being examined, but the damage was heavy: the right forewing …
This, my friends, is a giant guitar squid. Playing baseball with a whiffle bat. I was at the Peelander-Z show at the 7th Street Entry last night. I’d never heard one whit of their music before, but I handed over $12 simply because I heard that they play one hell of …
Yesterday was a beautiful, summery day in Minneapolis. I had some time to kill before a concert at the 7th Street Entry, so I parked about a mile away and walked there. I amused myself with Instagram.