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Friday Hoyden: Nieceblogging – what’s she making?

By Helen on December 28, 2012

Here she is bonding with her Dad over the Christmas break by doing a little gadget construction. Bonding with your daughters doing electronics, woodwork, mechanics or baking: A very feminist thing to do over the holidays and there should be a lot more of it.

Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies, gender & feminism, parenting, technology | Tagged electronics, geekery, hoydens, nerdery | 4 Responses

Sunday Star Wars: I find your lack of dancing...disturbing

Sunday Star Wars: I find your lack of dancing…disturbing

By tigtog on April 22, 2012

Darth Vader vs Emperor Palpatine dance-off – this is a thing now. Please treat this as a general whimsy and weirdness thread – what have you spotted in the wild recently that you feel you just have to share?

Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies | Tagged crass commercialism, films, gaming, nerdery, weird, whimsy | 4 Responses

Squee-Files: Galactic Suburbia nominated for a Hugo!

Squee-Files: Galactic Suburbia nominated for a Hugo!

By tigtog on April 13, 2012

Congratulations to the fine women of Galactic Suburbia! Here’s how Alisa, Alex and Tansy open the summary of their latest podcast in response:

Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies, gender & feminism | Tagged books & writing, fansquee, film, geekery, hugo awards, nerdery, SF | 3 Responses

More My-Neck-Hurts pseudoblogging

More My-Neck-Hurts pseudoblogging

By tigtog on May 10, 2011

Thor-vs-Green-Lantern-squee. Well played, ItsJustSomeRandomGuy.

Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies, health | Tagged cinema, comics, nerdery | 3 Responses

Oh Noes, we missed Star Wars Day

Oh Noes, we missed Star Wars Day

By tigtog on May 5, 2011

Because who doesn’t love a truly horrible pun?

Posted in arts & entertainment, fun & hobbies | Tagged cinema, nerdery, SF

Say No to Internet Explorer

My moaning, let me show you it

By tigtog on April 29, 2011

Hatesss the nastiessss, yesssssss.

Posted in arts & entertainment, culture wars, relationships, technology | Tagged music, nerdery

This should go up on Auntie's website

This should go up on Auntie’s website

By tigtog on March 31, 2011

Chatting to a comedian (who shall remain nameless) last night…

Posted in arts & entertainment, ethics & philosophy, technology | Tagged nerdery, telly | 2 Responses

It's still the 14th somewhere, right?

It’s still the 14th somewhere, right?

By tigtog on March 15, 2009

I meant to post this yesterday. I did at least discuss it with my beloved. Did any reader do/make anything special to mark Pi Day? The video below has no direct relation to Pi Day, but the poem was written by a mathematician, so I snuck it in (h/t to flodnak on FB). Related posts: [...]

Posted in education, fun & hobbies, Science | Tagged nerdery | 3 Responses

Better than (foo), reminds me of (bar)

By tigtog on February 27, 2009

A new meme! Using one of the tips from this handy Lifehacker post (Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks – it’s recommended as a way to find music/movies etc that you might like based on a musician/film you already like) I plugged in a few different search terms to Google to see what came up (although as I am a poliblogger with a shriveled husk of a heart, I tweaked the search in order to more likely find the pol-abuse) .

Posted in media, Politics, technology | Tagged nerdery | 10 Responses

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