QUICK UPDATE: MEDITATION CHAMBER NOW MORE MEDITATIONY

Go on! Click it! You know you wanna!


I won't take much of your time:

The Meditation Chamber (which, somewhat depressingly, is the most viewed page on this blog) has been overhauled--lost of old stuff was taken out, and some new, more in the spirit of the overall site material was added. Give it a look if you care to. XD


Oh, and I HAD to throw this out there...I'm not gonna comment on it, but I highly encourage you folks to point at it and laugh: http://www.music-juice.com/celebrity-news/megan-fox-is-the-sexiest-nerd-alive.html

They keep using that word; I do not think it means what they think it means...


Just Scoot

NEW FEATURE: NPNN--Not Particularly Nerdy News

Good Evening, World!


Welcome to my newest feature soon to be forgotten once I'm distracted by something shiny and/or boobs.

NPNN! Not Particularly Nerdy News!


See folks, whether I really intended it or not: This is a Nerd Blog. I'm a Nerd, so I write about what I know and what I like--Most of my readers are Nerds, so I write about things I hope will interest them.

But sometimes things of a less than nerdy nature will capture my interest and practically beg me to blog about them. Thus: NPNN!

Tonight's story: You folks seen this?

This is a J Crew ad that was sent in a mailer to thousands of consumers. Now, if you're a rational person, you're probably wondering not only what it's doing on my little Nerd Blog, but why it's ANYWHERE but in the J Crew ad it was made for.

If, on the other hand, you work for CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, or any of the major network news affiliates, then you see a vital debate on either a potential threat to the sexual identity of our children (WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!) OR, an exploration of the growing phenomenon of juvenile transvestitism--depending on the slant of the outlet you work for.


Shut up...Seriously--newspeople everywhere: Just. Shut. The. Fuck. Up! Please!

If you must know the details, here's a link to an article in the Daily Mail...Somehow I feel better linking to a non-American news source in this case.


See, I'm not here to pick a side and join the debate--I'm here to say that anybody who would consider this a subject WORTHY of debate is fucked in the head: There are no winners in such an argument, only two different flavors of losers.

Imagine someone trying to start a debate on whether water is wet. There are only two possible responses: Either you're a rational person who knows water is fucking wet, or you're a delusional psychotic. So if you enter the debate: You're either mentally disturbed...or worse--the kind of person who would attempt to ARGUE with the mentally disturbed!


Yeeeah...that oughtta just about do it: I don't wanna give this non-issue any more press than necessary.


Tune in next time to NPNN--whenever I'm bored and there isn't anything sufficiently geeky to talk about.


Good Night, And Have A Pleasant Tomorrow.


Scoot Burgundy

MY TR LIST: The Aftermath

Hi Peoples!


Thought I'd open with a visual aid describing what my birthday weekend's been like.

As many of you know, I wrote yet another Daily List for Topless Robot, you can check it out here, if you are so inclined.

Bottom line, I defended a number of movies that the Nerd/Geek community have declared blasphemous to Nerd Orthodoxy.

(Just so you know: "Defended", in Nerdese, translates to "Perhaps the directors DON'T deserve to have their genitals sandblasted off for making these films")

Ergo, I spent much of the weekend in the Virtual trenches, fighting the good fight...To other Internet Journalists: I don't recommend this--commenters calling you an "Assshole"(sic) are merely exercising their First Amendment rights, writers who retaliate to such remarks are Trolls, or so I've been lead to understand :P

I won't go into too much detail as to the content of the negative remarks, but just to give you an idea, here's a direct copy/paste of the VERY FIRST comment in the thread (the poster's name has been omitted to protect the douchey):


"All of these movies deserve ALL of the venom they receive and the idiot that wrote this article needs his nerd creds revoked."

Yeah, quite a start, eh?

And it just got more fun from there!

Btw, does anyone know what "Nerd Creds" are? How do you quantify them? Who has the authority to grant/strip them? Call me old-fashioned, but I thought one of the points of BEING a Nerd/Geek and seeking out others of like temperament and tastes was because one was tired of being judged and pigeonholed by "Mundane Society"...What the Hell's the point when your own people are going to be equally as judgemental?


Bah, I'm done ranting about this.

Was gonna launch into a much longer diatribe, but ya know what? There's no need.

Why?

Because every cruel, obnoxious, and uncalled for remark I received was accompanied by a screen name that had me scratching my head...The very few I recognized were from people who's names I knew only vaguely, NOT regulars--"Pillars of the Comunity", so to speakXD

And every name I knew well, every good friend, every acquaintance, every person who I had any kind of respect or admiation for--whether I'd ever spoken to them or not--had nothing but positive, supportive, or at the very least civil and respectful things to say.


So let the fools, the poseurs, the trolls, and the douchebags say what they will...


My friends have my back!<3

Thank you all--there's a token of appreciation after the jump. ;)


Old Man Scoot

WHILE DA BOSS IS OUT... A LITTLE NERD NEWS

Greetings, Turkey-Stuffed Ingrates My Friends!


So, not too many of you folks showed up to watch MST3K's Night of the Blood Beast (Turkey Day Edition) with me last night...That's OK....I see how it is....


Alright, I was gonna drag that weak jest out for awhile, but fuck it--it ain't that funny and I'm not in the least mad. It's totally cool--I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I'm thankful for all my marvelous contributors and discerning readers. Mazel Tov!



Right, then, as I said yesterday, since Rob is taking a well-deserved Turkey Day hiatus, TTOS will be filling the Fanfic void, soon as Abraxas gets here...

I also just saw something definitely nerd-newsworthy on Yahoo, and since Mr. Bricken isn't there for me to send it to (and Colleen hasn't beaten me to it) I see it as my responsibility, as a proud member of the made-up, self-appointed Nerd Press to report it to the peoples:

Dig This:


Now I've never played a Guitar Hero game and have no serious plans to do so in the future: But this story caught my attention as it appealed to my long-running distaste for Axl Rose-- the sweaty, obnoxious, wife-smacking mediocre-at-best lead singer of Guns 'N Roses.

The short version is Mr. Rose is suing Activision, makers of GH, to the tune of 20 million clams. Why? Because apparently he had an agreement with Activision that stated he would only allow them to use his song "Welcome To The Jungle" on GH3 if they promised to feature no songs by Velvet Revolver, current employers of the infinitely more talented guitarist who carried Rose for years: Slash.

It seems, for reasons that I've yet to care enough to uncover, that the two are now blood enemies.

Well, Activision not only features tunes by Slash and his new bandmates on GH3, they put him on the box cover, made him unofficial spokesman for the game, and even made him a playable Avatar in the game.

Axl was not pleased.

Now, why he's waited all this time to file this suit (GH3 was released three years ago!) is anyone's guess: My completely biased, unproffesional, subjesctive assessment is that Mr. Rose is a douchenozzle who hates joy and spits on all that is talented and good--anybody got any other ideas?


I'm not usually one to encourage judging a book by it's cover...But sometimes the cover tells you an awful lot about what's in that book. I'ma show you pics of the two men in question--you tell me which one's the douche:

Here's Axl...

(shudder)


Now here's Slash...

I'd say the boobs pictures speak for themselves. Now, the fair-minded among you might call this a smear campaign and complain how I picked the worst possible pic of Axl and the best possible pic of Slash, to which I resoundingly retort: So?

And I didn't just pick the above image of Slash because he happened to be posing with his smokin' hot wife, Perla Hudson (look around you--you really think I need an excuse to post pics of hot women?). I'm just of the opinion that her presence helps illustrate my point that Slash rocks your face off, and Axl is a bitter, cornrowed douche.


Don't you all feel informed? ;)


Scooter Cronkite