Life In The Pacific Northwest
As a life-long geek/comic fan, I adore all these movies (even the DC ones that so many revile). It’s awesome to see these films making the mainstream. When I was a kid loving comics was a definitive beat-me-up-at-recess thing.
And bringing a powerful, heroic woman character and I’m delighted to the nth degree.
Life is looking pretty good for geeks of my stripe!
This will either be really cool, or a total farce. Either way, I want to see it.
And this t-shirt looks pretty awesome. Just might to dedicate a smidge of my geek fashion budget to getting one.
Anyone else looking forward to this?
Found these two while on Twitter today:
Renton City Comicon: September 15th & 16th
Washington State Toy and Geek Fest: June 30th & July 1stIt’s great to find fun new events to add to my list. I do my best to keep this up-to-date. If you find something, let me know!
Fret not my geeky friends, for Seattle, and the Pacific Northwest are laden with comicon delights.
In Seattle alone, you have:
And there are events in Portland, Everett, Bellevue, Spokane, Ellensburg, Boise…
There are plenty of opportunities, check them out! Here’s my list.
Things are changing all the time. If you come across something that’s not here, let me know and I’ll add.
For years I thought redoing this pivotal lightsaber dual would be fantastic. Of all the technolgoical updates that could’ve been done with the Original Trilogy, this is one I felt would give more weight to the story.
Someone else agrees, and is working on it as we “speak”. I do so hope this isn’t vaporware.
My son managed to turn on Voice Assist on his S6. Don’t do this unless you really mean to. And I recommend spending some time learning about the system before diving in. For me, coming into the middle, it was an exercise of frustration. Fortunately, I figure this stuff out.
The biggest challenge was learning to type within this system. You tap the desired key once, then two more times. So, two traps total. My frustration was getting in through the lock screen. My son does have a great password, which is a pain to enter taps per character. Fyi, that includes “shift” and “done”. Then I was able to “tap” the settings, which I needed to do with two fingers, which has made my life better.
Anyway, glad this mess is done.
My love of things geek manifests in strange ways at times. A huge fan of Ghost in the Shell, I wonder about Wi-Fi protocols and data throughput when people “think” at each other.
Or how many servers are on the Death Star? RAID drives? How much email gets sent daily? What kind of data connection is needed for holographic communications?
What about the Rebel Alliance’s security chief? I’d be wondering, loudly, why you’d throw someone with as much critical detail regarding the Alliance as Leia into operations with a high likelihood of capture and exposure to, um, enhanced techniques.
Imagining Rebel IT. I’m picturing Hoth. When we see Vader enter the base, all the equipment looks rather operational. I would’ve, at least run some kind of worm that destroys everything. I’d rather pull the hard drives, and bring them with us on the evacuation craft. Or manually destroy them.
So, that’s how my brain works…at night, when I’m weary.
I adore Bellingham, and come up often. Yet, I just noticed the Fairhaven Steampunk Festival. I noticed the folks walking around in costume before I saw the banner advertising the event.
Reading over their site, it’s clearly been an annual event for at least a few years. I’ll add it to my list of geek events. It looks like fun.
The next installment of Blade Runner. I’m pretty excited.
I wonder if it will be playing at the Cinerama…
Anyway, another great geek film coming in 2017. It’s a good year!
https://youtu.be/gJtZYCv7AxA
The next installment of Blade Runner. I’m pretty excited.
I wonder if it will be playing at the Cinerama…
https://youtu.be/gJtZYCv7AxA