Category Archives: nerdcore

Gallifrey 21!

Here are some photos from last weekend’s Gallifrey 21 convention, held at the beautiful LAX Marriott, oooh.  Actually it was a lot of fun.  I was exhausted for most of the con, and I only made it to one and a half panels (seriously, how pathetic is that), but got to meet lots of lovely people during lobbycon, which is really what it’s all about!

There was…

Katy Manning

Katy Manning, who is just about the sweetest, most blitz woman I’ve ever met.  We’ve sworn to get into lots of trouble next time we meet up. <3

Tony Lee

The incredible Mr. Tony Lee, who skipped across the room to meet me, but was otherwise well-behaved as he is now in pre-marriage mode.  Yay Tony!

Rob Nick Sparrow

Nick Briggs, who I met at TARDIS, but never actually got to have a conversation with, and as always, Rob Shearman, who has become quite a good friend.

Second Doctor

This was the first, and almost definitely the last masquerade I’ve entered, it was a fairly harrowing experience for little to no reward, but hey…  I went as the Second Doctor, as a 20’s Flapper, and nobody recognized me, hooray!

Silas TARDIS
Finally, I want to alert you all to a new tradition — the Saturday Night TARDIS PJ party!  Whoo hoo!  Wear your jammies like it’s 1999!  Or something.  Yanno.

Things that go bump in the night…

…shamelessly stolen from @flatlinejack.

Vive la Révolution?



January 25, 1979: A 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker is killed on the job in a Flint, Michigan, casting plant. It’s the first recorded human death by robot.

Robert Williams’ death came on the 58th anniversary of the premiere of Karel Capek’s play about Rossum’s Universal Robots, which gave the world the first use of the word robot.  It was an invented term, based it on the Czech word for “forced labor.”

more from Wired…

So, what do you think, January 25 become known as Robot Independence Day?

This is what happens…

…when you let nerds near tattoo parlors.  Discover has posted a huge gallery of nerdy science tattoos, and some of them are just totally awesome.  I am ever so slightly disappointed that I’m not the first person to want a tattoo of the Pioneer plaque, but hey.

Skiency Magik!

Stumbled across the CERN particle physics bubble chambers photography website, and from the look of the pictures, it seems like this might be what they based the new Gallifreyan writing on…  anyone care to confirm?  In false color, they’re almost spot-on the same.  Either way, the photos are amazing.

Tuper Tario Tros!

Here’s an awesome mash-up between the original Super Mario Bros and Tetris.  Tetris blocks drop to form terrain, and then you can play through the level!

This is so on my wishlist…

Totally the laptop to end all laptops.
As they say, Practical? Not necessarily. The future? OBVIOUSLY.