Deep Geeking

A cool new website Deep Geeking has grown out of the cool old (internet years) Babylon Podcast. I've submitted my first deep geek, and it's very deep. It's about the new X-Files movies, titled I Don't Want to Believe, I want the Truth. Please leave any comments about the post on the Deep Geeking forum.

Cosmos

I discovered a few weeks ago that Cosmos , the groundbreaking, inspirational series by Carl Sagan was going to air on the Science Channel, in HD, on Tuesday nights. Of course, I don't get this channel, so I had to call and upgrade my cable. Yes, that's great this series is. I've read the book several times, and seen several of the episodes, but never had a chance to watch the whole series. I urge everyone who has this channel, or knows someone who does, to watch it.

The View, Epicurus, and Idiocy

This news article from the New York Post describes a conversation that occured on the view. Joy Behar mentioned my favorite philosopher Epicurus , who was pretty much in line with my favorite Founding Father, Thomas Paine. Epicurus was probably one of the first Deists, at least that's what he proclaimed, proclaiming otherwise at the time would probably have been bad for his health.

Sherri Shepherd, the dumb one, claimed that Christianity predated Epicurus, the Greeks, and the Romans. When Whoopi Goldberg, that fountain of sanity, attempted to correct her, she said that "Jesus came first". Let's not mention the fact the Bible says otherwise, or history, or you know, everything ever written. Sherri doesn't believe in evolution either, and she's not sure whether the Earth is flat.

Bender's Big Score (New Futurama!)

That's right, after years of waiting, we've finally gotten new Futurama! I bought this DVD today and it was fabulous. There were a ton of in jokes, things you couldn't possibly have gotten unless you were a hardcore fan, but they were hard to notice, and didn't detract from the overall experience. It started kind of slow, similar to how the first new Family Guy after they were renewed made fun of their canceling. The initial spamming stuff wasn't so funny either, but it got better quickly. The animation was incredible as always, with some amazing space battles. All of the characters appeared, Scruffy, Zapp, Al Gore, Dr. John Zoidberg, everyone. The ending was classic Futurama, funny, sad, bittersweet, displaying the moving emotional endings only a bunch of nerds could provide.

Tags

I've started to become enamored with whole tags thing, so I'm going to make a list of tags for myself to keep track of.

INFO : general information about the blog
MUSIC, MOVIES, TV : Shows/bands that I like, dislike, or otherwise have some sort of feeling about.
COMEDY : Either jokes or the entirely unfunny discussion on why things are funny. Also, fawning about Del Close.
SPORTS : I typically follow MLB, NFL, NBA, NCAAFL, NCAABB, and a scattering of other stuff.
SCIENCE : I'm fascinated by how things work, how scientists figure out that work, and why people sometimes don't believe it.
BOOKS : I read lots of books, and before now I've just kind of put them down. Hopefully I can use this blog to track what I read and how I feel about it.
WORDS : Words are fun. See Wordie . I think I will occasionally post about a word that I like.

As time goes by I will probably add, remove, and change these categories around.