The “Shoppie Awards”
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Our email in-boxes have all been touched by them. Some are so blatently obvious that we must wonder at the gullability of the ones who earnestly forwarded them to us. Sporting subject titles such as “Really Amazing Pictures” and “Winner of the National Geographic Picture of the Year Award”, these images have long circulated in cyberspace without receiving […]
The Sci-Fi Movie Plotinator
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Mad Libs meets the Sci Fi Movie Channel.
As I first mentioned in my post titled Sci-Fi Movie Survival Tips, My 10-year-old Science Junkie and I are huge science fiction movie fans. We love to make a game of figuring out which characters will die first and which will survive until the end. The Sci Fi Channel […]
Go replicate me a sandwich, will ya?
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
One of my favorite television series used to be Star Trek: The Next Generation. I loved all of the gadgets they came up with as well as the pseudoscience they used to explain them. There was just enough truth there to make one believe that those devices were really viable. Heck, I even bought a manual that […]
If I were an Evil Overlord…
Thursday, March 27th, 2008I would start by following these five simple rules:
My Legions of Terror would have helmets with clear Plexiglas visors, not face-concealing ones that can hide the enemy.
My ventilation ducts would be too small to crawl through.
My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped would be killed, not kept imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.
Shooting is not […]
Recombinant DNA?
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Yesterday’s post, Sci-Fi Movie Survival Tips, touches on a recurrent theme in sci-fi movies; the manipulation of genetic materials. In the realm of science fiction, tinkering with nature inevitably leads to disaster. Africanized “Killer” Bees demonstrate that this is sometimes true in the real world as well.
Some of the genetic combinations proposed in science fiction movies seem quite absurd indeed. One fails […]
Sci-Fi Movie Survival Tips
Monday, March 17th, 2008My 10-year-old and I love to watch science fiction movies together. Sunday is Sci-Fi Channel day at our house. Just lately we’ve been playing a game where within the first 5 minutes he guesses which characters are going to survive until the end of the movie. I would guess his predictions are […]
The House of the Future - 21st Century Edition
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008My last post featured 1957’s take on the “the House of Tomorrow”. In 2005 the Science Channel produced a two part series depicting an updated view on what our domiciles might be like in the not-too-distant future. It’s called Deconstruction: House of the Future.
Host and Carpenter Steve Hanneman of HGTV’s Designed to Sell guides us […]
British Ingenuity, Claymation and Cheese
Monday, February 11th, 2008Do you love crazy inventions, exciting story lines, and maybe a nice bit of Gorgonzola? If so, you must meet Wallace and Gromit!
Wallace and Gromit are the main characters in a series of three animated short films (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave) and a feature length film (Wallace & […]
