Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Today, the Soyuz TMA-16 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is on its way to the ISS. On board Expedition 21 are Flight Engineer Jeffrey N. Williams, Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev and Spaceflight Participant Guy Laliberté. Guy Laliberté is the founder of Cirque du Soleil. Watch... 

Yesterday, the Messenger spacecraft started its third flyby of Mercury. It is currently flying 141.7 miles above the surface of Mercury and will enter into orbit sometime in 2011. More than 90% of Mercury’s surface has already been imaged. With this flyby, Messenger will continue to image Mercury and hopefully send back... 

And it so deserves to burn. OMFG I cannot stop laughing HARD. This is not a geek thing, but it certainly deserves to be here. This dumbass has been watching too much Jackass. I am suppose to be getting my show together for tomorrow but I. Can’t. Stop. Watching! If you are squeamish, maybe you should not watch. NSFW  Read More →

I learned of a new site today and I could not believe I was not aware of it until now. The site is http://www.longurl.org. If you are unfamiliar with this site, it works like tinyurl or bit.ly etc., but in reverse. You enter the shortened URL and it will let you know where the shortened URL will really take you. I think this... 

I was browsing ThinkGeek.com when I saw this beauty. Bluetooth Retro Handset As copied from the ThinkGeek.com website, here is the product description: “Okay, so apparently this Bluetooth stuff is named after a 10th century king of Denmark who enjoyed eating blueberries a bit too much, resulting in blue stained teeth.... 

Monte Cristo Games is pleased to announce that their upcoming next-generation city building game, Cities XL™, is now available for pre-order on Steam®, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games and digital content.  Priced at $39.99, the Limited Edition offers players the entire game, along with five... 

Last year, I purchased He-Man And She-Ra: The Secret Of The Sword on DVD because it is just awesome and a wonderful piece of my life as a child of the 80s. In the bonus material on the DVD is the making of the I Have The Power music video and the music video. Whenever I watch it, I do not know if I want to laugh or cry. I go... 

I am not much for hipster fashions and I do not know how I feel about this “geek chic” thing, BUT I do know what I like. When I was shown this thanks to a fellow Tweep @angiek42, I exploded! I LOVE He-Man. When I was younger, when my friends and I played He-Man and She-Ra we did not use action figures, we were the... 

Happy Monday! I know for many, Monday does not equal happy. I am having a fantabulous day and thought maybe these may help set the tone for others to have a fantabulous day as well. There is a reason Data is on my list of 3 (to be clear Data not Brent). These videos make me squee, literally. Once again, there were a ton more... 

I am in complete geek heaven at the moment except for the fact Wesley Crusher was left out.  Read More →