Negro Versus Nerd

  • Can’t Give It Away

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    I really wish I could explain what Google Wave is, what it does, or even how to use it, but I can’t. I have a lot of invites for Google Wave and I can’t even give them away.

    This will probably be the last time I’ll bring it up, but I want to have fun trying to get rid of these invites. So here’s the deal, I’m willing to barter something for an invite but not just anything. I want some trivia, random X-Men trivia. Just leave it in the comments of this post and if its good, I’ll bounce you an invite.

  • Yep, Still Lame

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    Modeling all the Lantern Rings from Blackest Night

  • Random Bitch-Fest

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    Late Summer my ass…

    Week after week, been praying and hoping that a little piece of archaic cellular technology would be delivered to what is suppose to be the most advance smart phone… But at last, like a Jewish child on Christmas, no abundance of gifts and joy, just dreidels and chocolate coins. (No offense to anyone of the Jewish faith, just a really bad analogy.)

    <bitching>

    AT&T promised mult-imedia message (MMS) and damn it, I want it. Of course after the buzz of having MMS dies down (like 2 hours) I’ll never use the feature again, but for a $100 cell phone bill AT&T needs to pony the hell up. Both AT&T and Apple need to stop ass-raping customers and provide the services promised or start issuing credits and refunds. Actually not only do I want be compensated at this point, I want a written apology from everyone involved with the iphone. From the lowly sales rep at my local AT&T store, the fake ass smiling people at the Apple Store (burning bridges again) all the way up to Steve Jobs and Randall Stephenson.

    Oh and if iPhone tethering ends up costing more that $20 to the consumer, I’m going to do something very not nice.

    </bitching>

  • Mickey Senses Tingling!

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    The Walt Disney Company is buying Marvel Comics… Not sure about how I feel about this. Granted this is a great opportunity for Marvel get out of the financial issues it’s had since the late nineties. I’m a believer that the only way DC has survived this long was the ownership by Time/Warner. Maybe this will be a good thing… as long as next company crossover isn’t “The House of M vs The House of Mouse.”

  • I Heart BBC Shows

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    Since I have a bunch of time on my hands now, I’ve been trying to catch up with media I’ve been downloading and finally have a chance to watch. In the midst of all the porn, I downloaded a little British sci-fi/drama show about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost sharing an apartment. Hilarity does not ensue. Not sure how I came across the name of the Being Human but I chalk it up to nerdy accidentally discovery like East of the Eden.

  • I Hate Scott Pilgram

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    If one more person tells me about how great Scott Pilgram, using the analogy “the Harry Potter of comics,” I’m going to projectile vomit.

  • I Just Don’t Get It

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  • The Voice Of Many

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  • Toastee!


    “We’ll kill things, blow things up, it’ll be fun!”

  • Wolverine & The X-Men

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    So I just recently came across some advance episodes of the new Marvel animated series, Wolverine & The X-Men. From watching just the first episode, you can tell that this series pulls a lot of its influences from the X-Men Movie Trilogy, the X-Men Evolution animated series and several poignant X-Men story arcs like Days of Future Past, and Joss Wheden’s Astonishing X-Men. Set against the de facto back drop of fighting for a world that hates and fears them, the X-Men find themselves lost without the tutelage of their beloved leader/mentor, Professor Xavier, whom along with X-Men long stay, Jean Grey, who disappeared in an explosion at the X-Men’s home, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. With human-mutant relations escalating to a boiling point, its up to Wolverine to pull the team of mutants back together and save the world from the brink of destruction.

    Without giving away any more spoilers, its great to see that most of the characterization is spot on; Cyclops is very brooding and lost without Jean, Emma Frost is a manipulative bitch, and Storm has a ethereal regality about her. While some of the characterization is great, some are not. Some mutant powers are either forgotten or not present for the art of story telling. Character back stories has been alter to either have it appeal to a broader audience or maybe to avoid continuity all together. But than again I could just be nitpicking. Either way I believe that anyone from the guy who remembers watching Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends growing up to the die-hard Marvel Zombie would be able to enjoy this series. Its just a damn same that it won’t be broadcast in the U.S. until January 2009 and on the Nicktoons Network of all places.