42 Dreams of Arizona Bay

Searching for the question to the answer of 42.

And another thing …

I was heartbroken when I learned that Douglas Adams had died in 2001. No more Hitchhiker’s books. I was sad, too, when I read the fragment of a a Dirk Gently book in The Salmon of Doubt, and thought, this is all there is. I want to know how it will end. And I can’t.
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Pawn shop

I need help. I’ve been hoping beyond hope that I will eventually be able to find a terrible pawn shop commercial I remember seeing in Michiana. I keep looking for it on YouTube, but so far, no luck. It featured a leprechaun squeaking “money money money” while sitting miniaturized on different things in the pawn [...]

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Part two of Doctor Who meeting Star Trek

I love Doctor Who and to a lesser extent, Star Trek. Fun to watch them collide.
Here’s the second part in a parody mashup of Doctor Who meeting Star Trek. Guess the third part will come out at Christmas.

I blogged about the first part here, and you can find the direct YouTube link here.

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There ain’t no party like my nana’s tea party

The second season of the Flight of the Conchords is now over, so I must now tide myself over with anything else related to my new musical heroes, Bret and Jemaine.
Here’s the video of fans lip-syncing to Hiphopopotamus vs. Rymenoceros.

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The tale of a wizard

I always have felt like an outsider. At school. At work. In social situations. I’ve never fit in, and sometimes I haven’t wanted to.
So it’s weird to say I have sometimes felt like an outsider as a nerd.
Nerddom, I should say, has really come into its own. As an adult, there’s little stigma attached to [...]

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Le Wrath di Khan

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, imagined as an opera on Robot Chicken.
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Beautiful but I’m bored

I hope I’m not letting this blog slowly die. Twitter and Facebook seem to have taken the most narcisstic part of my random ramblings and allowed me to throw them out immediately. Dangerous but fun.
This blog has been around for more than four years, and I hope to keep coming back. That said, most of [...]

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