Category Archives: Geekery

I’m a fangirl and a dork at heart.

NaNoWriMo!

I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year, like always. Go me!You can watch my progress in the handy widget here (unless the NaNo website is being flooded with traffic again, in which case you can’t). I’m also coordinating the Great NaNoWriMo Book … Continue reading

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ZOMG! The Freak Revolution Has A New Name

Dig it, people: The Freak Revolution (which I’ve mentioned a few times before) is now The Connection Revolution. Same awesome people, nearly the same manifesto, but new name and a broader audience! Check it out.

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Whoa, look at this awesomeness!

BEHOLD THE NEW TEMPLATE! The awesome Adam of Pixelsmith Design did this for me, recreating and improving on the old look of the site. How amazing is this? Answer: Pretty damn amazing. If you need WordPress or other design work, … Continue reading

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Categories and Tags, Oh My

So. WordPress is awesome. WordPress also supports tags as well as categories. I was pretty much using categories as tags on my old blog. I had categories for every damn thing. But in most WordPress templates, that is kind of … Continue reading

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Why I am not Psyched for Rock Band 3

I get asked a lot if I’m excited for Rock Band 3, and I was drafting a long explanation of why my feelings are mixed when I realized I can summarize it very easily: If I wanted to play piano … Continue reading

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Failbender Rant The Third: Visual Shittiness

One of the failtastic things about The Last Failbender that really pisses me off is the visual shittiness. Let us consider as our first example, the art of bending. In the cartoon, it looks like this (there’s about 20 minutes … Continue reading

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OMG! I forgot to post about the WCWWIAB!

Which is: The World Changing Writing Workshop In A Box! Get it here (full disclosure: That’s my affiliate link.) The WCWW was friggin awesome, and if you’re feeling bummed that you didn’t/couldn’t/whatever join when it was going, you don’t have … Continue reading

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Failbender: Rant the Second! Mythology fail, racefail, and genderfail.

I’m back in the saddle, people! And ready for some more ranting. I feel a lot like Iroh there: RAWRRRR! Let’s dive right in. The sheer amount of fail Twistalan packed into “The Last Airbender” did not miss the amazing … Continue reading

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Failbender Rant 2 is coming! But first, a macro

I am working on the second rant… But in the mean time, I had to share this little piece of lunacy that came out of a discussion with a fellow Failbender-hater while I was making a macro for the upcoming … Continue reading

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Failbender: Rant the First! Characters and Characterization

Failbender Rant, Part The First So, if you saw my review, you know I hated, hated, HATED “The Last Airbender” (aka “The Last Failbender”). I hated it for a lot of reasons, but they pretty much boil down into two … Continue reading

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