Goodnight Forest Moon!

Some guy named Noah Dziobecki redid Goodnight Moon and has offered it as a downloadable pdf so it can be shared with future generations. He's even got some nice instructions on how to put it all together as a real book. What a guy.

Via

A New Civilization? Yes, Please.

My pants have been pooped.

And Out Comes the Nerd

Yes, I know. Months since the last post. Again. I had to throw this up, though. One of the ways I find new music is through Hype Machine, a pretty decent music blog search engine. So I go on today, planning on finding the new Netherfriends song and the latest post just happened to be a cover of a Weird Al jam.

Turns out there's not just one. This guy over at Cover Me compiled like 15 Weird Al covers for my nerdy listening pleasure. Does it blow anyone else's mind that people are covering Weird Al!? I feel like it gives him some indie cred and I love it. If anything, this is a great way to relive the days of sitting in my room playing with M.U.S.C.L.E.S. and rocking 'Dare To Be Stupid' on my boombox.

Two-Toed Nerdery

I just about shit my pants when I was beer shopping in Rhode Island last week and came across this lovely concoction from Shipyard. It totally stroked two of my nerd sweet spots - beer and the Civil War. I'm probably one of three people in the country to own Gettysburg on DVD (starring Jeff Daniels) and if you put me on the spot and asked me who my favorite Civil War personality was I'd probably say Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

See? Nerdy.

I know that Shipyard is available around town here in the fall because I've seen their Pumpkinhead Ale on shelves. Now I'll have to ask around for this but can't see myself buying a lot of it because it wasn't that great. Maybe I'll need a second tasting...

BloggieBlog Post

As my coworker Cody points out, it is indeed a bloggieblog world out there.  It's full of tons of ramblings that are usually completely worthless to anyone's point of view but our own.  But I love this world.  And you should know that Cody is one of three or four hipsters that I like, mostly because she's agreed to dress up like a Tanooki Suit Mario.

You have dysentery.

If you loved playing the old Apple IIgs in school with games like Number Munchers and Oregon Trail you have to check this site out.

If you didn't love those games, you suck.

The Week In TV...

I watched a lot of TV this week.  Between the final episodes of Battlestar, the season premiers of Big Love, Flight of the Conchords and Lost, the Innauguation and the shows I already watch like Top Chef I have had little time to spare doing important stuff like working or going to class.  Let's recap, shall we?

In BSG, Earth turns out to be a nuclear wasteland and everyone is totally bummed.  Especially D.  Answers better come quickly because they're still revealing new questions.  Like what's Starbuck's deal - is she dead or another ancient Cylon or some third option I don't even know about but is really cool?  Is that really the final Cylon?  I hate that character.  When's Gaeta going to be cool again?  I used to like him so much but now he's a sweaty one-legged bitch.

Big Love gave us some glimpses at what's going on with Roman and seeing Albie get his ass beat is always a pleasure.  All I could think about the whole episode was that Bill Paxton looks really old this year.

Flight of the Conchords started out strong with a nice Greg Proops cameo and the fall of the Crazy Dogs.  Brit's hand-woven pants were classic.

Leah needs to get her ass off Top Chef.  Radhika blew it so I wasn't sorry to see her go but we really need to keep weeding out these crappy chefs from this season faster.  My ever-changing final four prediction is Fabio, Stephan, Jeff and Jamie.  Carla can only do desserts, Leah is a hack and Hosea is probably interchangable with Jeff but I think Jeff is better in quickfires and it'll give him an advantage.

And oh boy, Lost... I love that they're jumping through time.  I think, though, that I am going to be totally bored with the goings on in L.A. thanks to how intrigued I am with the island antics.  This time jumping is a great way to show us the origins of the Dharma Initiative, give us some insight into everyone first known as "The Hostiles" and then "The Others," and even might let us catch a glimpse of an early smoke monster.

Ever since Alex was killed I'm liking Ben more and more, and I really like how Locke's journey  could position him to be the next Ben.  I feel like Richard is a more open Jacob-like island manifestation that is charged with choosing protectors for the island.  I think it's interesting that he gave Locke a compass, one of the items Locke chose as his own when Richard visited him as a child.

Tonight is the next Battlestar episode, which I will be DVRing.  More updates next week...

Bringing Back the Geek

I love video games.  I grew up playing them, from the super old days of Number Crunchers on the old Apple IIes and Jumpman on 5 and 1/4 floppy disks on the old PC.  I always had a computer growing up and I used the hell out of it, especially in 5th grade through high school.  I was there for the Sierra games - Quest for Glory, Kings Quest, Robin Hood and the Lucasarts revolution - X-Wing, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island.. I could go on forever.  The problem with these guys is that they don't work on today's computers - the clock speed is too fast and Windows built-in DOS interface can't slow it down.  Luckily, there's DOSBox.  This little app lets me run any old school game I can find in a little DOS window with little to no problems!  I've got Day of the Tentacle already and I'm working on figuring out how to fire up Quest for Glory.  It can be a little complicated but if you're in to old games it's totally worth it!

I've only recently got into torrents - I didn't get it at first and never had the time to research, but now that I'm caught up it's pretty easy.  Through some torrent searching I've found my all-time favorite old-school PC game all fixed up for use on today's faster machines.  X-Com is back, baby!  I have been playing this game constantly since I rediscovered it and will make the switch here in a few days to the sequel - X-Com II, Terror from the Deep.  If you can get our there and find it, this game has everything a turned based-strategy needs, whether you prefer micro-managing or combat.  Dork out on this, I dare you.