Nerd love

Working by the basement breakroom.  The news is always on the television, no one is watching.  The empty voices bounce off the cracked and peeling paint in a near whisper.

Suddenly, I hear a faint voice I recognize.  I wonder out loud, “Is that Neil deGrasse Tyson?”  A quick look around the corner confirms that it is indeed him.

The four men I am working with ask, “So who’s that?”  Before I think I answer, “Astrophysicist”.

Apparently, recognizing the voice of an astrophysicist from the next room is enough of a geek moment to put you out of the “cool circle” at work.

I’m okay with that…

The three of us were out to dinner.  ”Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” was playing quietly in the background.  During a lull in the conversation I look up at my wife and daughter and say, “I’ve never really liked U2.”

The hurt look on their faces still haunts me in my sleep…

I saw the trailer for “Red Tails”.  I’m interested for the first few seconds but then they lost me.

I’m not sure if this is a remake of “The Tuskegee Airmen” (which I liked) or a sequel or if this is something new.  But when the trailer used modern electronica music over the WWII dogfight scenes… I stopped wanting to know.

I know this isn’t the first (or last) time I’ve seen modern music used anachronistically in a trailer for a period piece, but it was the most jarring.  It may have its purpose, drawing in young kids or something, but it turned me off in a major way…

Spelling things backward, the favorite name generator of the unimaginative D&D player…  But I just learned of one I missed: Doc Brown from the “Back to the Future” movies.

Emmet Lathrop Brown

Emmet Lathrop

Temme Porhtal

Time Portal