I'm a Geek! Fully Tested ;-)

Just when I forgot how to find this, Liz over at The Park Bench (awesome blog and if you're not reading FIX that!) posted the OKCupid.com Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test.

I've taken it before, however, I figured take it again and post my results as proof of my "Geek Cred"

Your result for The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test...

Pure Geek

39 % Nerd, 78% Geek, 9% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Geek, earning you the title of: Pure Geek.

It's not that you're a school junkie, like the nerd, and you don't really stand out in a crowd, like the dork, you just have some interests that aren't quite mainstream. Perhaps it's anime, perhaps it's computers, perhaps it's bottlecaps, perhaps it's all of those and more. Your interests take you to events and gatherings that are filled with people you find unusual and beyond-the-pale, but you don't quite consider yourself "of that crowd." Instead, you consider yourself to be fairly normal.

Which, you are.

Congratulations! You're the one on the RIGHT!

Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST

Take The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test at OkCupid

Seems @stephenfry & I are 2 halves of a whole - and he has a great rack!

Why do I love the internet?

Accidental art courtesy of @CleverUserName's tweetstream.

Tweeted 11/18/2009 15:23

@CleverUserName: @geekgirldiva I'm not going to be able to look at you or @stephenfry the same way again.

Need I say more?

I'm Crying Like A Total -Girl- and It's All Your Fault!

If you've been following me for any length of time, you know I love my job at Entertainment Earth and that I think I have pretty darn cool bosses. But, today...

...today I've actually started crying twice.

Because I'm having what has to be the best day of my work life and I cry when I'm happy.

I blame you.

When I started here 4 1/2 years ago, I had this idea. I thought it would be neat if there was some place on the EE site targeted to geek girls like me. It was just this thought and something I thought would be cool, but it wasn't something I really talked about at the time.

Today that thought is a reality.

Not only is there an entire section on the Entertainment Earth website dedicated to Geek Girls, but there's a link on the Entertainment Earth front page, a news story, new geek girl targeted affiliate banners and even a press release about me.

And, know what I keep thinking?

That, while it's great and all, the only reason it exists is because of people who read this blog or my tweets or visit the EE site. Or who took the time to help me out along the way (you know who you are and I appreciate it more than you know, but I'll totally get gushy if I have to name names and then I'll cry AGAIN!)

So, yeah. You people made me cry.

Happy? ;p

I Can Be A TaunTaun and A Sister Of Battle In One Weekend!

I could say that I was all about original content, but sometimes you just have to post things other people have posted because they are just THAT cool.

First - what has to be the coolest Star Wars costume ever made.


















There's also a video!

Posts and more detail via Great White Snark

But, there's more. Because Topless Robot posted this AMAZING Sister Prayer/Sister of Battle outfit from Warhammer 40K. If there was ever a costume I wanted, this would be in the top 5 for sure. Make sure you click through to check out TR because there are more images there.

There are days I wish I had a spec of crafting talent. ::le sigh::

An Open Letter To Infinity Ward Re: Chat Options in MW2

An open letter, originated at All Things Fangirl and re-posted as a Geek Girl, Gamer and woman. If you feel so inclined, please repost this letter in your own blog and spread the word?


Dear Infinity Ward:

Please release a patch or fix that will allow users to utilize party chat in all modes of online gameplay, if only for the sake of your female fans. We shelled out the money for the game, we stayed up all night and missed half a day of work playing it, we write and read reviews and buy MW2 caps for our avatars on the XBox Live marketplace.

Out of respect for us, since, sadly, the majority of the people who play your game online have none, give us back party chat so we can enjoy the wonderful evolution of the online play without being told how unwelcome, ugly, stupid, and useless for anything other than degrading sexual acts we are. Please give us back party chat so we can have tactical conversation with the friends we're playing with, without having to hear how we have no right to be there, no right to play; so we don't have to hear, out of the mouths of sexist, bitter virgins who have clocked months worth of their lives in game time that we are socially defunct and sexually wrong, somehow, for playing.

I would really appreciate it.

Sincerely,

GGD

Dollhouse Closed

I know I'm asking for the inevitable backlash, but I'm just gonna say it.

Dollhouse sorta deserved it.

And this is coming from a diehard Browncoat and Whedon fan.

But, let's be real a sec. This wasn't the "Fox curse". Fox actually gave Dollhouse more of a shot than I believe it deserved -- likely BECAUSE of the Firefly cancellation backlash and resulting popularity if the series.

Personally, I stopped watching the show during the first season for one reason. I think Joss copped out and shifted his show focus because of the way the early episodes were received and out of fear that the show would get axed before it ever got off the ground.

When I first started watching, Dollhouse felt...uncomfortable as a concept. Here was this world in which people were property. Willingly (or for their own reasons) giving up their identities to become a company asset and used for whatever purpose the company deigned necessary without having to deal with any residual guilt or memory of the event.

People being used for whatever purpose, with no memory or guilt -- and a company profits. Experimentation without limit, on human beings and it's just a day to day occurrence.

Now, that was interesting to me. Orwellian and thought provoking and, like those of us that saw the dismantling of Summer Tam as something a government would do if they could -- grossly fascinating.

But, in my opinion, the show shifted focus and I lost interest. It stopped feeling creepy and just started feeling like another week of "Here goes Eliza and what is she wearing this week."

But that can get old. Quickly. And once you've seen one episode and you know how it goes, why do you come back to watch again?

Go watch "Once More With Feeling" and ask yourself if Echo ever touched you anywhere near as deeply as Buffy did discussing something as out there as being pulled back from Heaven for the (second, third, fourth I forget?) time?

Joss works best when he has his characters dealing with the repercussions of their actions, even when the circumstances are utterly out there.

When you hold Dollhouse up to that standard, does it really measure up?

Wizard of Oz: Apocalypse - Now Casting.

Through the magic and beauty of the Twitter/Tumblr random rt tumbl of Zeblue, came this amazing image done by the fabulous Daily Cow.

Not only does this need to be a movie, but I think we need an entire dream cast. Come on, internet. Be awesome.

Casting suggestions for (and if you choose CGI for anyone, please mention voice cast please?):

Dorothy
Scarecrow
Tin Man
Cowardly Lion
The Wizard
Glinda
The Wicked Witch (edit: I had a question of if the witch is alive. But, hey...it's a sequel. You know how that goes. Zombie Witch perhaps?)

if you have more...heck, go for it ::grin::

(Oh, once upon a time I used to know how to write a "breakdown" but my days in casting have long passed.)