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Monday, December 17th, 2007It’s tough to navigate your way around the blogosphere these days without bumping your pale, tender noggin against a Holiday Gift Guide. Or, as we in the biz refer to it: a shameless ploy to convince blog readers to fill up the coffers of your Amazon Affiliates account with their hard-earned, holiday-budgeted dollar billz.
(There’s [...]
Geek Baby Goodness: The Jabba Kid
Monday, December 17th, 2007This is a little post about a little person. Not my little person. My friends’ little person. And by “little person,” I don’t mean it’s my friends’ midget. I mean, it’s their toddler. This is a post about my friends’ toddler.
And my next post will be about my innate reluctance [...]
Reader Poll - Which Costumed Group is More Cringe-Worthy? Furries vs LARPERS
Friday, November 30th, 2007(If you’re viewing this entry in an e-mail or RSS reader, you’ll have to visit www.greatwhitesnark.com to see the embedded videos, take the survey, and see the latest results. You’ll thank yourself later.)
On a celebrity blog, you might get a survey like, “Who’s the bigger skank-bot? Britney or Paris?” (Clearly, this week, [...]
Geeky Specialists on Lootist
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007If you haven’t already heard (perhaps from a write-up on Mashable, for example), the official version of my startup Web site, Lootist, was released this week. In short, it’s a place where real-life specialists can guide you to the best products by hobby or interest. You can build a wishlist, make your own [...]
C. Andrew “Darth Vader” Nelson at Hayward Comic-Con
Monday, November 5th, 2007Just because there were no costumed fanboys to photograph at today’s Hayward Comic-Con doesn’t mean I didn’t get to gleefully geek out: I had the unexpected pleasure of meeting and chatting with C. Andrew Nelson, a.k.a. Darth Vader.
You know the extended scenes with Darth Vader in the special edition of the Star Wars trilogy? [...]
Retro Snark: The Geek Girlfriend Litmus Test in Cosmo Quiz Style
Friday, November 2nd, 2007If my experience with online dating were a television show, it’d be a tragicomedy, featuring dialogue like this (addressed to a perfectly lovely speech therapist specializing in small children’s developmental issues):
So what kinds of techniques do you use with these kids? I mean, do you beat them for being so stupid?
Yes, I said that [...]