normalblog » this week in geek http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 this week in geek – superimpersonators http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/2009/05/07/this-week-in-geek-superimpersonators/ http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/2009/05/07/this-week-in-geek-superimpersonators/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 15:37:40 +0000 nick http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/?p=3913

These are a few of my faaaavorite people.

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Nghhhhhhhh na na na nah!

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mostly dogs and cats, they’re the best! They make my friend Lucy go “Nghhhhhh, na na na nah”!

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You’ll figure it out:

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So tonight a guy on the streets actually challenged me to a game of Wii Bowling. Inside his ground-level apartment (visible, and clearly safe) was a large HDtv and Wii running, ready and waiting for a challenger. I would have taken him up on it except I already had a date with the pub. I guess his offer stuck with me, made me think of these images. Pretty wonderful how enthusiastic senior citizens are with the Wii. An uncle of mine, I saw him over Christmas, and he’s by no means aged but aging, still he was kicking the kids off the Wii so he could have a go at bowling and golf and whatnot. It’s crazy how much good that platform  has done for the world. And older people seem particularly adept with the Wii compared to the other latest generation consoles.

(Quick note I think next week will be This Week In Geek Week, as in all geek all week, I have so much stuff I absolutely have to clear some of it out. Plus I’m moving house this weekend and will be out of commission for a couple days so I’ll schedule content while I’m away. So look forward to that! Dorks!)

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  • George Lucas himself always put me off from becomming a true fan
  • I much prefer a sojourn to a battle
  • Jar Jar Binks (nuff said)
  • Geordie La Forge’s otchkies
  • Star Trek does justice to both the television and film formats; Star Wars has never had good television presence.
  • real science potential: holodecks and transporters
  • Earl Grey Tea, hot.

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HOWEVER, I’ve always been a fan of Star Wars fans, and their general obsessiveness with their own fandom and the iconography and history/ies of their universe and their commitment to finding it here on planet Earth. See for yourself:

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With this next one even I had to give a double-take. I mean, srysly? A trashcan? Sunglasses? are those light sabers actually dildos or frozen condoms? WTF?!

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Have a happy weekend y’all! Here’s some random geeketry and awezomeness and wowzee for your eyeballs:

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Less a ’superhero’ in the traditional sense, still one of the coolest characters ever, meet Vincent Valentine:

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Fitting in these economic waters:

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BOOOOOOM! I’ve always loved that shape at the bottom of the actual mushroom-bit of the mushroom cloud, where it’s like a tunnel or vortex sucking the actual bomb up into the sky! Scary, but beautiful.

I cannot wait for this to come out:

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Finally! I hope they do it justice.

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Not on facebook? Then you’re going about social networking wrong. (link to my profile)

I dare you:

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TOPIX AFGHANISTAN US HELICOPTER CRASH

go get ‘em boys!

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what planet are you on:

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mustang v monster truck, is this a game for the iphone or sumtin?

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want one:

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buhbye now!

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I reckon Wednesdays are a good day for this, a sort of mid-week make-me-laugh pick-me-up. What do y’all think? Also does anyone think ‘themed’ posts are a good thing? Some topics that come to mind include: NES, space travel, robots, superhero costumes, sexytron (just made that one up!), Pi, etc. Or I could just mish mash it all together really random like so:

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check this out! Russian building uses crossword puzzle as decorative feature:

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Hopefully I can keep up the momentum but the coming weeks will be tough as I settle back in to life in the five boroughs. For now, I’m going to come out all guns-a-blazin’

SAMUS I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!
Samus of Metroid
from yukicosplay – wow! hot geek chicks and make-up!

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more NES geekathon:

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yarn art:

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I don’t think I’ve gone a week in my life without some tetris reference or thought buzzing through my brain:

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Actually I amazed myself that HAL didn’t make it into the first round somehow. Equally amazed I am that neither the Predator nor any Aliens made it into the first installment…

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BAM!

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gorgeous illustration. reminds me I need to read that newest Gregory Maguire novel.

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right. Right. Oh I know. RIGHT? Like WTF?!??!

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Superman, X-Men and Spiderman all have near-similar rise-and-fall patterns, with the latter two being especially upsetting because you figure by the time they produced those movies they would have figured out how to do them right; Jurassic Park and Blade 2 I think could all be marked a little higher given where other movies are ranked; just to clarify the Star Wars films, here numbered 1, 2 and 3 are Episodes 4, 5 and six respectively (Episodes 1, 2 and 3 do not even deserve mention); Lord of the Rings films, all level: true; second Alien film, Aliens, is by far one of the best movies of all time, in my opinion ranked above the other full-bar films (Jaws, Terminator 2, Godfather 2, Indiana Jones, Empire Strikes Back); the second and especially the third Matrix film/s by far being the biggest disappointments from this compilation.

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(by artist Orioto at Deviant Art)

and now for some geek tattoos!

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I <3 also. via Flickr user: skampy

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via Flickr user: shizhao

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via Flickr user: f_mafra

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open Love. close Hate. (don’t know where from)

thanks for stopping by! I’d like to go out by saying

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soooooooo desperate!

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love the nintendo controller tee!

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less geek and more yes, I recognize that scene!

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NOM NOM NOM!

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I <3 Futurama

Filed under GEEKATHON!

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