FreeRangeGeek
My thoughts on many things, but mainly geek things like Warhammer, 40K, miniatures, table top games and occasionally role playing & my attempts to brainwash my children in this world.
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May202013
“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide note.So I called her, and I said, “Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty, from Star Trek.” I said, “I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis. I wanna see you there.”
I saw her — boy, I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And obviously she wasn’t going to the right people.
I said to her, “I’m doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis.” And two weeks from then, in somewhere else, you know? She also came to New York - she was able to afford to got to these places. That went on for two or three years, maybe eighteen times. And all I did was talk positive things to her.
And then all of the sudden — nothing. I didn’t hear anything. I had no idea what had happened to her because I never really saved her address.
Eight years later, I get a letter saying, “I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, because I just got my Master’s degree in electronic engineering.”
That’s…to me, the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
(Source: lesliecrusher)
May172013
Robert Reich: The Real Scandal and Systemic Abuse of Power
“This systematic abuse cannot be fixed with just one resignation, or two,” said David Camp, the Republican chairman of the House tax-writing committee, at an oversight hearing Friday morning dealing with the IRS. “This is not a personnel problem. This is a problem of the IRS being too large, too…
The real IRS scandal and abuse
May132013
Astronaut Performs David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” While Floating in Space
Before he returns to Earth after five months aboard the International Space Station, Commander Chris Hadfield recorded this amazing cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”
This isn’t Hadfield’s first foray into the world of YouTube. During his time in space he picked up quite the following here on Earth with his videos explaining what it’s like living for an extended period in space.
Ed note: We think this video should play on a loop in the National Air and Space Museum. What do you think of Hadfield’s cover?
h/t Mashable
(via upworthy)
May22013
George R.R. Martin to Release Another Book That's Not the Next Installment of 'A Song of Ice and Fire' | Pajiba
Martin will release ‘The Wit and Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister,’ a collection of “clever and naughty quips” from the beloved character, this Christmas, mostly because he hates his fans.
George loves his fans. I know this because I’ve spoken with him at length about that very subject. Also, as Neil Gaiman put it so eloquently, George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.
I get that it’s amusing to fire off some snarky joke about how George hates his fans, but wouldn’t it be more interesting to really look at how this book came together? Do you actually think George sat down, stopped what he was doing, and wrote a book of brand new Tyrion Lannister quotes? Oh, wait, that’s not what he did, and I know this because I read the announcement from Harper Collins: “The hardback title will gather together “clever and naughty quips” from the popular character from A Song of Ice and Fire series.”
Or can we apply Occam’s Razor for a moment and consider:
1) Game of Thrones is wildly popular at the moment,
2) Tyrion Lannister is one of the most popular characters on the show,
3) A bunch of business people at Harper Collins saw an opportunity to have an editor cull existing material, add an introduction or a few other words from George throughout, and laugh all the way to the bank.
I don’t know what George is writing at the moment, and while I hope that it’s more ASoIaF, I also hope he’s enjoying the process, because he’s earned it. He owes us nothing, and the only thing we should ever say to George is Thank You.
10AM
“Bohemian Rhapsody in Blue” (Queen / Gershwin Mashup) by Scott Bradlee
Genius! I didn’t it to ever stop!
(via laughterkey)
May12013
Are you sure this is the company you want to keep?
(Source: drunkonstephen, via crosscjr)
April252013
Rob Borbidge, former Premier of Queensland, put his political career on the line in order to take a stand for gun control in Australia.
Meanwhile, American politicians bow under the pressure put on them by the NRA.
“Look, there are Australians alive today because we took that action. I mean, how much is a life worth?”
Too bad our politicians are gutless.
(via laughterkey)
April242013
Henry is cool.
(Source: glitterandgold138, via wilwheaton)
April222013
Graham: Guns, but not trials, for terror suspects
You’ve got to be kidding me! I am not all that surprised but still, it takes a special set of really big brass ones to be this explicit with this level of hypocrisy and/or paranoia:
GRAHAM: “I think, anyone who’s on the Terrorist Watch List should not lose their Second Amendment right without the ability to challenge that determination. I think, Senator Kennedy was on the Terrorist Watch List. There’ve been people come up on the watch list. I did not want to make that a — the basis to take someone’s Second Amendment rights away. What I would suggest, is that if you come up on the Terrorist Watch List, you have the ability to say, “No, I’m not a terrorist.” And that would be the proper way to do that.
Of course my feeling is very simple. If he is a citizen he should the exact same rights regardless of what he did. I mean in a literal sense what did these 2 do that is all that different from what James Holmes did in Aurora, or what the Columbine killers did? And in both of those cases there were so-called ‘Weapons of mass destruction’ (which is of course an idiotic difference when you consider the death toll from Aurora using legal firearms) that just didn’t go off. Or even from McVeigh? There is no difference really.
So there is just no justification for this kind of idiotic thinking beyond a xenophobic hatred of the foreign born ‘other’.
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