While her tween sons enjoyed “Regular Show: The Movie”, Patricia is still flummoxed at the blatant “Back to the Future” and “Bill & Ted” references and that the ovie would be for sale in September…before it’s to be shown on Cartoon Network in November.
Continue Reading
We all knew this week was going to be a reset but who knew that reset would be so anti-climatic?
Continue Reading
‘Sleepy Hollow’ has its season finale… or is it series finale? We’ve no word yet. Is this the end of the show for our favorite Witnesses? If so, was it a worthy send-off?
Continue Reading
With the short second season almost over, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ brings an episode that will leave you wanting more.
Continue Reading
Tragedy Looper is a game about a group of Protagonists traveling back in time to prevent a Mastermind from instigating various tragedies. Or it’s a game about a Mastermind plotting various tragedies while meddling time-travelers keep getting in the way.
Continue Reading
Welcome to the eighth irregular installment of Random Geek Roundup! This is where I collect a variety of links and sites and products that have come across my virtual desk in recent days. Just because you’ve discovered a specific interesting tidbit doesn’t mean that everyone has. So in the spirit of sharing awesome, here is the next collection of links.
Continue ReadingTime travel to the past is a tricky subject. Never mind that it’s impossible; what about the tech tree? If nobody discovered writing, what would become of the Internet? That’s the sort of question that you’ll get to explore in …
Continue ReadingDo you need a bit more silliness in your life? Would you like it to come along with a healthy dose of family devotion, stick-to-it-iveness, and time travel? Then the newest and last book in Dr. Cuthbert’s fantastic series of …
Continue ReadingLeave the kids at home when you head out to see the new time travel flick Looper, opening today. In the future, the mob uses outlawed time travel to send victims 30 years into the past where they are executed …
Continue ReadingThe little girl whose science project nearly destroyed the world is back, and this time she’s messing with the space-time continuum. You see, she missed a question on her history test about the location of prehistoric cave paintings. Obviously the …
Continue ReadingIf someone were to give you a time machine set to April 14, 1912, and asked you to go back in time and save the Titanic, would you do it? Before you answer that question, you’ll probably want to first …
Continue ReadingIf you read about the Gadabout TM 1050 owner’s manual on Wednesday and really wished you could have one for yourself, here’s your chance to win one for free! Curio & Co., purveyors of fine imaginary nostalgic items, is providing …
Continue ReadingEver feel like you just don’t have time? Of course you do. That’s the nature of our world. We have too much to do, not enough time to do it. If only you had a time machine, you could read …
Continue ReadingSequels. Some are bad. Some are worse. But some match the quality and excitement of the first, perhaps even surpassing it. The sequel to 2009′s A Whole Nother Story, Another Whole Nother Story is everything a sequel should be. It …
Continue ReadingWith the upcoming cinematic re-release of Back to the Future, you’ll get a chance to head back to 1985 and hang out with Marty McFly and Doc Brown. And now, thanks to Dark Horse Comics, you can step back one …
Continue ReadingI mentioned earlier that I was really excited about this new book by Charles Yu, and I’d been planning to save a review until closer to the release date, in September, but since Yu has been generating a lot of …
Continue ReadingEasy decision: Chocolate or Vanilla? Medium decision: peek in somebody’s medicine cabinet or not? Tough decision: play with a time machine, a memory-transference device, or the Killitron 2000? These are just a few of the choices that Jimmy will face …
Continue ReadingIf you’re a GeekDad or GeekMom, chances are your life is pretty busy. You’ve got kids to take care of, maybe a full-time job on top of that, and any time you have left over is easily filled with your …
Continue ReadingWhat would you do with your very own time machine? Go back and forth in time, collect a few artifacts, make some changes to history that will result in a better present for you … same as everyone, right? But …
Continue ReadingIf you’ve read about all the troubles scientists at CERN in Europe have been having getting the Large Hadron Collider to work, you must have had the same sort of thought about the failures as some such scientists have: Obviously, …
Continue ReadingGoogle has released an "Ancient Rome 3D" layer for their popular Google Earth geographic browser. The new layer shows many of the buildings, structures and topography that made up the city during the rule of Constantine the Great. Some of the buildings even have interiors. The Ancient Rome 3D feature was created in conjunction with […]
Continue ReadingTED just posted a talk by John Hodgman (of pretty-much-everything fame, but most notable as "PC") that should cut straight to the heart of any geek. I could say that it involves lost time, aliens, a summer day, tourism, Liberians, the reliability of buses, and true love, but that wouldn’t do it justice. Just watch […]
Continue ReadingFrom the Flickr photostream of Argyle, just get it up to 88 mph and you’re good to go. Not clear if it’s storeboughten (as they say in Little House) or DIY. Via Cruft.
Continue Reading