It’s almost been a decade since the 2003 release of Return of the King, the 3rd movie in the Lord of the Ring trilogy. I The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is slated to be released this December. It’ll be the first of three films that make the prequel to The Lord of the Rings. I’ve been a fan of the books for many years, and even read some of Tolkien’s denser fare, like the Simarillion, which recounts the creation myth for Middle Earth.
Saying you are a geek is not enough anymore. People are going out of their way to be called nerd.
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We can all fake a British accent. Or so most of us would think. Professor David Ley, a voice and speech specialist from the University of Alberta shows us how to speak in a standard upper middle class English dialect in a youtube video.
Recently I took a cruise to Honduras and Cozumel. Thought I could share the trip and some of the pictures I took. Upon arriving in Honduras we took a van…
Jon Negroni has put together a dizzying theory on how all Pixar movies fit into one universe. Jon has created a narrative around the idea that major events and characters within every Pixar film are connected by an overarching story about technology. His narrative attempts to explain the anthropomorphized animals in Pixar films and why easter eggs about unrelated films appear throughout the Pixar filmography.
We had an opportunity to speak with Peter Smith about the Indie Galactic Space Jam. Peter is an Assistant Professor of Game Design at the University of Central Florida and he also co-founded the Indie Galactic Space Jam which is occurring at the Melrose Center in downtown Orlando, Florida from August 13-16, 2015.
Yesterday, on July 4th, physicists confirmed the existence of a previously unknown particle which is widely believed to be the Higgs boson particle. Though, a nerd I am, a physicist…
