Voting is closed for Do’Urden Region, Round 1—results are posted on the main Geek Madness page. But the Battle for Secretary of Geek Affairs rages on and voting for Round 1 of the Bombadil Region is now open, and will close on Sunday, Dec. 28th at 6 pm EST, at which point the next round […]
Author Archives: Paul and Storm
Cool Stuff Abounds
December 19, 2008 – 1:15 pm
A couple neat things we keep meaning to post, but haven’t quite gotten to lately: Merlin Mann—he of the 43 Folders and the You look Nice Today and the Twitters and whatnot—has taken our meta-textual tribute to Randy Newman, The 25 Days of Newman, and gone one meta-step further by recording a tribute to our […]
Show #020: I Am Curious Green/Orange
December 16, 2008 – 12:20 am
The twentieth episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online. In this episode: Geek Madness kicks off with a bang; Paul’s lamentable decorative tastes, and a callback to his fractional homosexuality; Storm’s color-name blindness and pennant fever; and the relative comedic merits […]
GEEK MADNESS: Do’Urden Region, Week 1
December 15, 2008 – 12:13 am
Let the games begin! Our first sixteen competitors jump into the fray for the inaugural round of the Battle for Secretary of Geek Affairs. Voting for Round 1 of the Do’Urden Regon is now open, and will close on Sunday, D discount cialis ec. 21st at 7 pm (a completely arbitrary stop time, as is […]
GEEK MADNESS: Revised Brackets!
December 14, 2008 – 2:09 pm
Our Geek Madness Tournament kicks off tomorrow; and just in time, we’ve posted revised brackets. Over the past week, we’ve heard your requests, suggestions, complaints and threats; we’ve ignored the vast majority of them, but a couple have made some degree of sense. Those particular ideas have been especially ignored; but we did indeed change […]
Show #019: About Four Percent Gay
December 8, 2008 – 10:52 pm
The nineteenth episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online. In this episode: we rail against Dig Dug and other milquetoast names; as we have stalked, so we are stalked in return; lengthy ruminations on fame, and exactly how gay Paul is; […]
GEEK MADNESS: The Battle for Secretary of Geek Affairs
December 7, 2008 – 10:24 pm
Per our discussion in Episode #015 of “Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average)“, as the first geek President, Barack Obama would do well to reward this important and influential constituency by creating a new cabinet post: the Secretary of Geek Affairs. And it’s up to YOU (the collective you, […]
Einstein vs. Monkeys
December 7, 2008 – 10:18 pm
Our tireless chum Len has lent his skills of an artist once again to an endeavor of ours—this time, it’s to the subject of our poll asking who would win in a fight: Albert Einstein with a flamethrower, or the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz. Not one, but two pictures, for a total […]
“Monkey Shines”
December 5, 2008 – 7:44 pm
Jonathan Coulton‘s short-lived sitcom “Monkey Shines” had an extremely brief run on ABC in 1985; it was cancelled during the first commercial break of the first episode, and was ordered destroyed by then-ABC President Grant Tinker. The show slowly developed a cult following through the years, however but although numerous rumors of bootleg recordings of […]
Monkey!
December 4, 2008 – 10:42 pm
Here’s a very brief sneak peek at something cool we’re working on (we know; how coy of us!): Our pal Jonathan Coulton meets a friend, and maybe learns a thing or two…
