A Fun Webcomic Featuring Death

I saw this on an awesome site, xkcd: A Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language, and couldn't help but laugh.  If you like this, head on over there for more!

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Lesson learned: If you're going to challenge death to a game, choose wisely.

Considering the TARDIS

Here's some witty and fun nerdy banter concerning the TARDIS!

Z is for the Zoo Hypothesis

Since this is the last day of the challenge, I wanted to have a little fun.  That's why I decided to post about the Zoo Hypothesis.

The Drake Equation is useful for calculating the possible number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.  The answer garnered varies depending upon the values used for each variable (we know some values fairly well, while some are more of an educated guess), but it's a fun intellectual exercise even if we don't get any solid answers from it.

I believe there's life elsewhere in the universe.  It's too large and amazing for me to think otherwise. Still, I'm not holding my breath while I wait for a spaceship to come down and take me for a ride, no matter how cool it would be!

There's debate over whether we've ever been visited by extraterrestrial life.  Some contend we have, while the official consensus is that we haven't.  Those who believe in alien life often claim that we haven't been visited due to large cosmic distances, but this isn't the only hypothesis out there.

The Zoo Hypothesis speculates that intelligent alien life hasn't contacted us in order to allow for us to evolve and mature on our own without interference.  If they observe us at all, we're like animals in a zoo (except we don't know we're in a zoo and we can't see those who are watching us).  Maybe it should be renamed the Prime Directive Hypothesis.  That name seems more appropriate to me.

And for a little bit of fun and deep thinking, here's a clip from Star Trek TNG where the crew of the Enterprise debates the scope of the Prime Directive.  Enjoy!

A Star Wars Conspiracy

This video contains some thought provoking evidence that might make you think differently about Star Wars!  It's great fun!

Captain Planet Parody

This is hilarious!  For those of you who haven't seen these videos, I highly recommend it!  There are four installments, and the links to them will pop up at the end of the video.  It's worth your time to watch them all.

Don Cheadle is Captain Planet from Don Cheadle

Klingon Style Video

Here's a wonderfully ridiculous video.  My favorite part is the elevator scene.  My husband and I watched that scene over and over again, and we couldn't stop laughing!

ROBOTS!

Thank you George Takei for sharing this on Facebook.  Wall-E is the new Waldo.  It is now my desktop background and brings me much happiness.

How many ways are there to classify these?  Well, too many to count, probably.  Here are some ways that have come to mind, but this is by no means an inclusive list.

• cartoon vs. live action robots
• movie vs. T.V. robots
• by era (decades shown or time period of show featuring them)
• genre (sounds obvious, but Tom Servo from MST3K is comedy; Bender from Futurama, a comedy; Kryten from Red Dwarf, which is sci fi and comedy)
• by size, shape, or color
• by function
• humanoid vs. non-humanoid robots

Can any of you think of additional ways to classify them?  Or maybe point out one of your favorite robots.

Nerd Language

When you're dealing with geekdom, you must understand that there's a different language.  When dealing with a  group of people, or in this instance just two, who get into a conversation concerning geek culture, accept the fact that, as an outsider, you won't have a clue what's going on.

That's okay.




And if you have a burning need to understand, visit this page and click on Geek Therapy.  These experts will have you crossing that cultural barrier in no time.

That's no moon. It's a space station.

If you ever wondered why the Empire took it so badly when the rebels blew up the Death Star, I have an answer for you.  Math nerds have calculated that it would take $852 quadrillion to build.  And they built and lost two of them.  Ouch!

No wonder no one wanted to take Emporer Palpatine's place after that second time around.  That kind of loss is enough to kill any empire.  Sometimes you just need to know when to quit.

Sharing Designs

Since part of the purpose of this blog is to display some of the projects I've been working on, I might as well do just that.  These designs are some of those available on a variety of items in my Cafe Press online shop.  I know that they aren't all that skillful from an artistic standard (although if I do team up with one of my artist friends like I've been considering, that may change), but they're meant to be funny while embracing a decidedly nerdy outlook on life.

This one is a two part design I call The Ultimate Question.  This one is featured on t-shirts with the first part on the front and the second on the back.  This is a question I've asked myself many times.

Chekhov's Gun refers to the principle in writing that if you show a gun early on, you have to use it in the  story by the end.  My husband suggested that I use a phaser so it could also pay homage to Star Trek, but I didn't want to come across as confusing (even though not everyone will get this reference anyway).  I'll just have to honor Star Trek with something later on.

This is just something those who are bullied for being brainy can use as consolation.

 

A play on the phrase "and the meek shall inherit the Earth" with a look to the future tossed in.

Obviously this is a reference to "in the beginning, there was the word" and is a tribute to the computer geeks of the world who can do things with 0's and 1's that I could only dream of.

And these last two are separate designs but both play around with the arbitrary nature of the way we organize time into units that have so much meaning for us.

Anyway, I hope I didn't bore anyone.  If I did, oh well.  And if you liked what I had to say with these, keep an eye out for more.

Creative Projects Galore

It seems that I have too much ambition, but unfortunately not all that much success as of yet.  However, I am not about to give up.

My primary passion has always been for writing, but there are a lot of ways to utilize that passion.  I recently started an online store with Cafe Press where I've been designing shirts and other accessories.  My goal is to celebrate geek culture with witty sayings (at least I hope they're witty), and to get some of my work noticed.  My store is, like this blog, called Warped Nerdiversity.  The name comes from many sources.  First of all, I've loved Star Trek all my life, so I took the word "warped" from their use of the warp drive.  Geeky, right?  "Nerd" is obvious, of course.  The word "nerdiversity" as a whole comes from my love of college, or university, and the multitude of smartass shirts I saw people wearing there.  And, happily enough, the word also contains "diversity," which is appropriate since I want to have a diverse range of products that will appeal to geeks everywhere.

Anyway, the store is new and the apparel limited, but feel free to check it out.