The Great Geek Manual

Did anyone else catch the season premiere of Bones last week? They seriously need to give Daisy and Sweets their own spin-off or, at least, a couple of mini-webisodes.
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Last week, students around the country went back to school. For many college students, the week marked their first taste of freedom, as they moved into dorm rooms away from home. The move will lead many to forge lifelong friendships with their new roommates. But, sadly, for the majority of freshmen, the roommate honeymoon is coming to an end just about now, as students come to realize just how badly they’ve been mismatched.

For instance, many readers of The Great Geek Manual would consider a hardcore geek to be an ideal roommate, never considering the downside:

1.) He may consider the food inside the fridge to be both eaten and uneaten until opened, but you know there’s nothing in there but biological experiments.

2.) You begin measuring time in “macro-voids” rather than seconds. A void being the time it takes for him to break the factory seal on your latest electronic device after it has passed through the door. Read the rest of this entry » » »

Before you ask, this shot is from an real condoms advertisement, and yes, it’s from Japan. Suggest you own comments below. Click through the link below to see the Hello Kitty-style packaging. Twisted.

Photo Source: Rilakkuma Condoms via Flickr

Yes, that’s Vigo the Carpathians from Ghostbusters II. Guy’s gotta eat, doesn’t he?
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Geek and Gamer Girls Song by Team Unicorn, featuring appearances by a rapping Seth Green, Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff and Stan Lee. Download the lyrics and MP3 at FileFront.

It’s an Inception inception with an exception: you’re not supposed to understand it. That way, you’ll go see it again.

Classics, sci-fi, and fantasy, The Fine Brothers spoil them all, in just four minutes! I love these. They need to do one for comics.

Yesterday, college students around the country start classes. As much as I wish I could back to those halcyon days of campus quads and cafeteria food, thinking back, college wasn’t it was crack up to be.

For instance, it’s funny how much college is like prison. Both universities and prisons are state-run institutions. Both inmates and students are photographed and issued a serial number upon arrival. Not to mention that both college and prison pretty much represent the bottom rung to most of the rest of society.

There are, however, a few key differences.

1. Before entering a correctional facility, prisoners must undergo a cavity search.
Tuition only feels like a cavity search.
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