It was one of those weekends in which my accomplishments didn’t quite live up to my ambitions. I have about four or five “intellectual” posts half written in my head, but so much kept going on that I didn’t get anything really, actually written. But I did take the time to write up this lame excuse. In…
Tag: geek
Valentine’s Day for Dorks
So its Valentine’s Day, but you still want to make sure everyone knows you’re a dork? Good news! There are plenty of options out there that will allows you fulfill your love interest’s holiday expectation without being smooth, sophisticated, or overly dignified. I decided to write a series…
PC Builds and Painting Nails
Yesterday, I had the day off and intended to go Christmas shopping and also pretend that I was one of.. those girls that hang out at Northpark drinking Starbucks and you know, affording things. Instead, I spent all day fixing Thom’s new PC which did not work when it was put together the night before….
The Maxim Gamer Girl Contest and Why ITS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT
When I was modeling, the one thing about it that really nagged at me was that there were very few pictures taken of me as myself. (If this is a revelation to you, I used to model, I don’t anymore, I quit doing it to do something else, and in the way of life, it…
Dear Geeks: Please Stop Complaining About How Much Faker Geek Girls Are Than You.
The Forbes article “Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away” by Tara Tiger Brown has been making the rounds on my Facebook and Twitter page today. While its certainly not the most angry or derrogative article I’ve ever seen on the subject, many people, myself included, took issue with it. My initial response was to…
Vinyl Thoughts 2 – The Next Level: Video Game Themed Toy Art Show in Pictures
Who needs actions when you’ve got words? Too bad we don’t have words here, just pictures.
Arcading
I really wish there were sort of a vintage arcade around, something like what the arcade in the mall when I was in junior high would have been like.. in my imagination. Let’s face it, the Village Square Mall arcade was past its prime by the time I had my own quarters. So the closest…
Rika Confesses to Almost All of It 