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I have come to the conclusion that Top Gear is one of the best shows ever made, hell I'd go so far as to say the show is better than some of the more well known geek staples like Lost and Star Trek TNG, it's that good. Now some of you (those that haven't seen… Continue reading
When I was 14 I started playing Dungeons and Dragons, specifically Dragonlance. For those of you that don't know what Dragonlance is all about then I suggest you go to Wikipeida and look it up, because I really cannot be bothered to explain it here. Suffice… Continue reading
This blog is a cop-out, I'm sorry to have to do this to you but I have been I'll since Friday night and today is the first time I have actually felt well enough to concentrate on putting together a blog. So instead of a normal blog please except my apologies… Continue reading
Alternative titles for this blog could have been:How I watched England crash out of the World cup in a pub in France with a group of Germans. If the Translator app on the iphone fails to make your point, gesture wildly and make a thunk, thunk sound. This year… Continue reading
I don't pretend to understand women, or relationships for that matter, but as a geek who is married to a wonderful woman of the non nerd variety I have learned a thing or two along the way. So this weeks blog is a quick list of things to keep an eye out for… Continue reading
This is the third part in a series of blogs looking at the TV shows, books and Films that made me the geek I am today. Part 1, Masters of the Universe: http://chud.com/articles/blogs/2627/Anatomy-of-a-Geek.html Part 2, Ghostbusters:… Continue reading
This is the second entry in a series of blogs looking at the TV shows, books and Films that made me the geek I am today. The first entry can be found here. http://chud.com/articles/blogs/2627/Anatomy-of-a-Geek.html The first three films I ever saw on Video… Continue reading
This is the first in a series of blogs looking at the TV shows, books and Films that made me the geek I am today. The year is 1985, it's Christmas and I'm and my Grandmothers house, this is the year that my folks relented and bought me all the He-Man toys I… Continue reading
As geeks we all know there are some amazing concepts out there. Fiction is littered with classic examples of ideas that are simply iconic, be it the design of a spaceship or the way character is written that makes him (or her) stand out from the rest. But… Continue reading
With the moving done the wife and I are currently farm sitting in Pontypridd. Said Welsh town is famous for two things. Firstly it is the birthplace of a little known singer called Tom Jones and secondly its where a huge chunk of the Russell T Davies era of… Continue reading
Since I was about 7 years old I have known professional wrestling was fake. This was not through any leap of intelligence or simply spotting the obvious early on, I knew because my Parents told me. My folks met on a holiday camp the were working on in the… Continue reading
Sorry for the lateness of this blog, I have a few things going on in my life at the moment that are a huge distraction. However I made myself a promise that I would write a blog once a week regardless and that is exactly what I'm going to do. I have come to… Continue reading
