Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures

And now I will leave you for the weekend with this little bit of skeptical humour brought to you by Tree Lobsters. I featured them once before on my site when I awarded one of their comics Geek Of The Week January 15, 2010. And now I present: #131 Safety Measures And the Secret Message for this one: Bumperbacking: The unsafe... 

If you missed the exciting announcement about SETIcon, let me fill you in. SETIcon is a dream come true! It will be held at the Hyatt Recency in Santa Clara from August 13 – 15, 2010 and will be a geekasmic celebration of Astronomy, SETI, Star Trek and science fiction in general. Tickets are dirt cheap as well,$20 a day... 

With millions of views, I do not know how I had not become aware of How It Should Have Ended until @Accalon tweeted the following two videos yesterday. To date, they have 25 episodes including Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended, Terminator – How It Should Have Ended, How Superman Should Have Ended and more. You can find... 

I have been busy adding more things to my store. Some are Twitter related, some are of a personal nature and there is 1 that gets even better after you listen to the audio that won me 12 internets. Shirts (Short) #BlameJulesLupus Women’s Fitted T-Shirt (dark) This t-shirt is inspired by a Twitter hashtag given to me... 

Ignore the silly dates on ze poster to the left. w00tstock 2.x tickets are now available! WEEEEE! w00tstock v2.0: Friday, May 7 – Moore Theater, Seattle, WA Purchase your tickets here! Special Guests: TBA w00tstock v2.1: Saturday, May 8 – The Aladdin, Portland, OR Purchase your tickets here! Special Guests: TBA So if... 

After being told many times after I have tweeted or said something “that should be a t-shirt” that is now what I am doing. I am currently creating Geeky Pleasures Merch. Different things will be added from time to time, so please check my store frequently. Below you will find stuffs that I have already created. Just... 

Oh yes ladies and gentlemen, it has begun! w00tstock 2.0 will be coming soon! I thought I had heard some noises from Paul and Storm that the beginning stages of planning have begun. Yesterday, I was compelled to check out the w00tstock website and LO AND BEHOLD THERE BE DATES ANNOUNCED! You still cannot purchase your ticket... 

If you do not read Phil Plait’s blog or do not follow me on Twitter, then you may have missed this little bit of awesome. The following comic found at Tree Lobsters made me howl and gigglesnort for hours. There are a lot of awesome comics to be found there but this one certainly deserves the title of Geek of the Week.... 

I wanted to post this yesterday but didn’t get the chance to. Yesterday (January 6) was Geeky Pleasures contributor Chris Knight’s (www.cwknight.com and @cwknight) 21st birthday and on Saturday (January 9) I celebrate my 34th birthday (@Jules_Party934). On Tuesday, this lovely little bit of humour made its way to... 

Apparently there is this really awesome site called The Oatmeal. I admit I have failed to check it out yet despite everyone telling me how much I would love it. However, thanks to @achura, this was tweeted to me yesterday as he knows this is something I encounter quite frequently with my family. I am sure this will resonate...