Fun post that sorts the patterns of life and death in Westeros and beyond. I am sure that some multivariate analysis is likely, but was not presented in the post.
Friday Nerd Blogging: Stata and Death
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Fun post that sorts the patterns of life and death in Westeros and beyond. I am sure that some multivariate analysis is likely, but was not presented in the post.
Sorry folks, but with intermittent wifi in the US (my mother-in-law is a neo-luddite), the best I could do was this: Indeed, I spent part of this break reading less of a dissertation than I should...
In the spirit of the holidays, here's a fun movie trailer that actually kind of depicts a war on Christmas.... ok, a war on Santa. H/T to OTB for providing the video. And a big H/T to the...
Much baking to be had this time of year, so it only makes sense that we play the Hungry Games again:
H/T to @stephaniecarvin for this bit of silliness:Â Â Enjoy your last few days before the students come back, if they have not already done so!
The Internets have exploded around Soledad O'Brien's witty yet friendly push-back against numerous interviewees who refuse to be fazed by facts.I don't know about your interpretation of this. But watching her politely yet firmly refuse to look her viewers in the eye and lie about the facts reminds me of nothing less than the fictional newsroom of Aaron Sworkin's new HBO series "Newsroom."Indeed, one might interpret this scene from early in the first season of Newsroom as a political manifesto rather than a form of entertainment:Now, as an out-and-proud nerd, I'm much likelier to want to...
 I am pretty sure this answers the mail, Charli: Shakespeare, Zombies, John Amos, Shelley Long, June Lockhart, and the dude from Clerks. Yeah, the the skinny one. Plus a Weekend at Bernie's reference. What more could you want on a Friday?Oh, and Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Talk about nerd-overload.
 Given last week's review of Redshirts, I thought I would provide this Comic-con video (shaky, NSFW graphic in the background) that helps to illustrate the humor behind Scalzi's book. It is a skit written and enacted by Scalzi and a sci-fi friend [ed: Patrick Rothfuss, a 'minor' player in the current SF & Fantasy scene, as pointed out by none other than Steve's better half] : And, yes, the shaky video is an essential part of the post-Comic-con experience.
Holy meme splicing!
Have you wasted any time viewing Bear cam? This Wired story explains:Media company Explore has teamed up with Alaska's Katmai National Park to install webcams that will deliver live video feeds of brown bears catching salmon in a popular feeding ground.Each year, around a hundred bears travel to a stretch of Brooks River to fill their bellies with salmon. Now anyone with an internet connection can witness this gathering thanks to four high-definition cameras that have been set up in this remote part of Alaska. One camera is positioned at Brook Falls, where the larger male bears fight it out...
Instead of posting a video, I thought I would present a short book plug/review:I actually don't read that much science fiction or fantasy, but I could not resist once I heard the concept of Redshirts by John Scalzi: that instead of writing about the main characters on a starship, he would focus on those extras that tended to get killed on the away teams that get deployed to the planets the starship would visit. Scalzi is touching on a key piece of nerd culture as we have long noticed that the folks on Star Trek (classic version) who beamed down with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy tended to have...
A friend posted this on FB. Too good not to share for those who remember the least dark Batman fondly:On a day like today, we could use all the comic relief we can get.