Greetings and salutations my fellow NF readers. It’s been two weeks since I left to goto Malaysia for Christmas vacation. I went with my girlfriend Michelle and stayed with her family. It was a very cool experince. I will post lots of pictures soon.
Alright well, check back here daily now to read our news and updates on nerdy things we find interesting across the net.
Happy New Year! 2009 is an exciting new year for Nerd Fellowship. I expect big things to happen with us. About time too!
Attention, everyone who likes free stuff (yes that means you!). Nerd Fellowship has recently received 2 very nice The Godfather posters from the new The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration DVD / Blu-Ray release (available now).
We will be giving these posters out to whoever sends me a private message first within our community forums.
Simply private message me (BlueRob - Click here to view my user profile) your first and last name and shipping address (no p.o boxes). If you’re the the 1st or 2nd person to send me a message, you will receive the poster, along with a secret NF gift!
So yeah, pretty easy? Don’t be lazy! PM ME NOW!
Check out the poster below, as well as the behind the scene clips included with the DVD / Blu-Ray disc.
The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration is available now at Amazon.com
Click here to visit the DVD product page or here to visit the Blu-Ray product page.
Just got our new shirts in last night. I have to say, they look better than I thought they would. I will be setting up our mini store shortly to start selling these shirts.
We currently only have Small, Medium, Large, and XL. All shirts will be priced at $17
This does not include shipping cost.
If anyone wants to put an order in now, just PM me in the forums (my user name is BlueRob).
Better pics will be posted soon!
I wasn’t feeling so good today. I actually stayed home from work and hibernated like Bigfoot. I am feeling slightly better now, so I figure it would be a good time to pump out some post. Especially since Apple had a huge conference today. Alright well, just wanted to let you guys know I am still alive and kicking.
Sorry for the lack of post. Should be back in full swing tomorrow!
Hey everyone, hope you are all enjoying your labor day weekend (oxymoron?) festivities, which probably consist of waking up at 4pm and eating Doritos while playing Team Fortress. Well I am just looking forward to not having to go to work on Monday and getting to catch up on some Pub Games or Castle Crashers.
Anyway, there have been a few changes around the site that I figured I might as well update you all on.
First, I would like to welcome our newest editor Rob W. Rob and I actually went to high school back in the day. We reunited at Comic-Con 08, and that is kind of where he started getting involved with our site. You heard of guerrilla marketing right? Well Rob was doing his own brand of marketing for us at Comic-Con which I would like to call “Ninja Marketing”. Basically he was just slipping our cards and such into unsuspecting attendee bags.
Rob will be contributing to the site by writing in our technology and gaming sections. He has already posted a handful of articles. You can find him in the forums under the name of Mist Knight.
Secondly, I wanted to point out that I finally got around to adding our Links page. I posted all our friend sites and a majority of our news sources for anyone that is interested. I am open for link exchange if anyone is looking to add us to their site. Just send me an email.
Lastly, I will be adding a mini store to the site soon. Our first product will be our second run of T-Shirt with the “Noob Varsity” logo on it. For anyone who doesn’t know what the Noob Varsity is, I recommend you spend some time in the forums.
Well that is all. Back to finding lame labor day news to post XuX.
What can I say guys, sometimes things just happen. Last night I went to hang out with my girl after she got off work to eat dinner with her. We ended up seeing a movie and I didn’t get home until late. Long story short, I passed out on my bed and didn’t get to update the site with any new post or Video Fix (which I usually post mon-fri). So yeah, sorry about that.
There wasn’t that much going on anyway. Everything in the world of nerdem seems to be at a slight slump this past week. I blame Michael Phelps. I heard he is getting criticized for advertising with Frosted Flakes instead of Wheaties. It is like the people who are angry never tried Wheaties. That stuff is nasty. If I just won a billion gold medals, I would treat myself to something sweet. Not a bowl of cut up card board.
The parents are all “Oh he is sending out a bad message to kids”. Apparently parents depend on gold medal athletes to raise their kids now. I already got my WWMPD vinyl bracelet on.
It’s FROSTED FLAKES! It isn’t Franken Berry Cereal or Cookie Crisp. HEY ZEUS!
I listen to a handful of podcast through out the week. Not on a scheduled basis, but rather when I get time. Lately I have been paying attention to the format of podcast, to try and train myself on the “Do’s and Dont’s” of creating a professional podcast.
Over the course of my “self training” I have come to realize as a listener, there are some really annoying habits and characteristic a select few podcasters pickup on and stick to. This isn’t a rant from a professional podcaster point of view (since I haven’t done any yet), rather an average listener who is a little tired of what is being published out there.
1. Entertain pointless reader emails that are knowingly not funny just to fill time.
Example: “Reader Diego emails us today with the question, “Can I has Cheeseburger?”. YEESSS Diego, why in fact we can “all has cheeseburgers”.”
2. Assemble the a team of personalities that consist of the following
a. The leader -Interrupts his team randomly through out the podcast to bring up useless personal information that has a very distant relation to the topic at hand.
b. The lone girl - Always throwing in sexual comments about herself and for some reason the rest of the team feels it necessary to point out she has breast at least 2 times during the cast, but she doesn’t mind, she likes the attention.
c. The guy that doesn’t do anything - The only words you will hear out of his mouth is him introducing himself at the begging of the podcast and plugging his personal website at the end.
d. The guest podcaster - You can’t have a guest on your podcast unless their mic sounds like they are talking through a mix of your old middle school’s broken PA speaker and a megaphone.
3. Reference countless internet catch phrases and memes in an attempt to make yourself funnier and culturally hip.
4. Point out embarrassing characteristics each of your staff members have. Do this many times through the podcast.
5. Exaggerate everything you say, especially when agreeing with another person’s opinion.
Example: “ZOMMGGG YEEESSSS”
6. Make sure you throw a sexual tie in joke every 2 minutes. The “Your Mom” come back is old, but if you use it a million times it might become funny again.
7. For your intro song, find something that sounds like a combination of Crazy Frog and the original 1993 Power Rangers theme song, then loop for 15 minutes.
8. Spend 20 minutes “catching up” on topics you talked about last week. We all know it is a pain in the ass to just remind us to play last week’s episode instead.
9. Break your podcast up into multiple files so that listeners have to manually click on each “part” link to listen.
10. Make sure you target and insult mass culture like religion. Everyone wants to hear why you’re an atheist because none of us have any beliefs and want follow your awesome ideas blindly.
So if you follow those steps, you should pretty much drive everyone away from your podcast within at least 3 episodes.
Here is your fix
You may have already seen this, the whole Windows Mojave experiment.
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I like how everyone has such blind hate for windows vista. I will be honest, I used vista back when it first came out. I had crashes constantly…but I knew it was starter bugs. I have not tried it since I reverted to XP but I am not entirely put off from the vista experince. Hopefully they fixed the issues I had with the new service pack. All that I really cared about was that my After Effects couldn’t work properly without theme settings turned off (wth mate?).
Here are some classic videos regarding windows vista
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That is all for today!
Day 3 started out rather tragically. As many of you know, I am a huugggeee fan of NBC’s Heroes. Well, Heroes premiered their first episodes for season 3 on Saturday. I woke up about 6:30 am, took a shower, and got some food before heading off to the con to get in line at about 8:00 am. Keep in mind the panel didn’t start till 10:30 ish so I figured I was making good time getting there 2 hours early.
Oh god, it was massive. The line started at the door, did about 10 “Z’s” across the grass lot and then proceeded to wrap around the entire convention center. I walked about half way across the convention center before I said “screw it”. I am just not a person to stand in a line that stretches well beyond a mile. So yeah…I missed the Heroes panel and premier. Needless to say day 3 didn’t start out so well. I figured I would knock out my disappointment by buying junk in the dealers room. It worked.
After spending nearly half the day taking chances on new books/DVD and hunting for autographs, I decided if I was going to see the Mutant Chronicles premiere I might want to head up to the designated Hall really early so I didn’t repeat that morning’s tragedy.
I got up to the room that would be showing Mutant Chronicles, where a panel was currently in session regarding the future of Marvel comics (or something like that). After that panel ended, Tom joined me to sit in the room and wait. I didn’t really have a clue what was showing in the room before Mutant Chronicle’s time so I was quite surprised when Patton Oswalt jumped on stage to introduce Sarah Silverman and the cast of her show.
I am really not a fan of Sarah Silverman, but her panel was pretty funny. Partially because of Patton himself who flamed audience members who got up to ask questions.
Wolverine and the X-Men was the next panel up. The panel premiered the first 3 episodes of the new animated TV show. The show is about Wolverine leading the XMen after professor Xavier and Jean Gray mysteriously disappear and the X-Men’s mansion is destroyed. Wolverine and Beast must reunite the X-Men in order to stop the Mutant Registration act and find Jean and the Professor.
I was not really expecting much out of it, but I enjoyed the 2nd and 3rd episodes so I will give it a try if I see it on TV.
Finally it was time for Mutant Chronicles to start. Tom Jane and Ron Perlman came out for the panel and premiere. The movie started up and I slowly dozed off. About half way through the movie, I gave up on trying to stay awake and just put my head down. Don’t get the wrong impression though, it wasn’t the film that made me sleepy, it was the accumulative lack of sleep from previous nights. The room went dark and my mind went into a fatigue zone.
Tom woke me up after the film ended, and we walked back to the hotel.
That concluded our Comic-Con adventuring as we flew home on day 4 due to the lack luster event line up.
My overall thoughts on Comic-Con are this.
The Good: CC is great if you’re a collector of rare material objects, love to meet new people with similar interest, hang out with friends (if you have any with you), and have a need to be the first to hear the latest news on the movie, comics, and gaming industry. Also, the badge pickup was so fast! I was shocked by our 15 minute wait. I have had to wait nearly 4-5 hours before to get a badge.
The Bad: CC suffers greatly from being too crowded. At some points you may be standing in one spot for about 3 minutes (a long time) while walking to your destination due to bottle neck areas of the convention. Another thing that really got to me was how ignorant the staff was. About 80% of the staff had no clue what event was going on right behind them or where Hall locations were if it wasn’t in their general area. Half the time they felt the need to shout at you as if you were across the room. I flipped one time during this type of incident and told the lady to shut up as she was screaming at me after I asked her if the hallway leading to an escalator was closed. I am sure it’s because they get asked the same question over and over and that probably gets frustrating, but if that becomes a problem then you should make a sign and post it in view of attendees a couple yards before they reach the closed off area. It’s just bad management.
I’d been to Otakon in previous years and I have to say their staff is much more knowledgeable on events and locations and the smaller crowd greatly improved on my experience compared to Comic-Con.
I am not sure if I will attend Comic-Con again any time soon. I hear they might move to a larger venue. We will see what happens if that comes true.
Freedom at last! Day 2 was such a breeze without my kuma head piece. I was able to walk around the dealers room without being stopped every 2 minutes. Seriously…respect to cosplayers who have been doing it for years, its a a selfless job.
Any who….Day 2..yeah..one word (or rather 2 combined) Watchmen. Tom and myself took a seat to watch the full cast of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen come out and talk about making the movie. Zack showed an exclusive comic-con reel that was impressive and really got people hyped for the movie. I haven’t been able to find any bootleg video showcasing the exclusive footage yet but when I do, I’ll be sure to screw the movie industry that I love so much and post it.
After I got done with the Watchmen panel I headed off to go get my pair of Afro Samurai organic figures autographed by Afro’s creator Takashi Okazaki. It was kind of a star struck moment. I have photos of Takashi and myself standing. Me of course with a fools grin.
Tom got to check out The Spirit, from what I hear it was amazing (of course!). He will be reporting on it later so check back for that shortly.
I spent most of the day in the dealers room where Tom and myself got to try out Castle Crashers. What a sick game that was. I can’t wait to play it on my 360. Its a lot like their first title “Alien Hominid”. Even the bosses have similar attacks and weak points, but the humor and playability were still awesome.
I checked out various happenings in th dealers room. We saw Activisions new Spider-Man game. I about dropped my jaw when they showed a quick shot of symbiote Wolverine at the end! Think venom…but with claws and more ape like. Awesome…(to the max!) The game itself is a revamp of the Spider-Man video game series which has tragically gone down hill from it’s PS1 days. It looks very promosing.
Dinner was great! We had our official NF dinner at Dussani resturant. I felt a little under dressed with my big NERD t-shirt on.
From there I headed out to watch some late night anime at the convention center which included Golden Boy, Miami Guns, and the worst anime I have seen to date…”Step Up Love Story”. It had your typical super high pitched voice girl that has is as innocent as a baby and completely confused about everything dealing with emotions and the opposite sex.
We headed back to the hotel around 1am.
One great thing about Comic-Con is my hotel. You can go up to the counter and ask for a cookie. BOOM! They pull out a handful of warm cookies that must be baked in grandma’s oven or something because they taste sooooo good. Its like a nightcap for us nerdy people.
So yeah if your ever in San Diego…stay at Doubletree Downtown Hotel…they got cookies and stuff.
Thats it for day 2 wrap up. Check back later for that Spirit coverage.
I will try and post my Day 3 coverage tonight or tomorrow latest.
Picture gallery coming soon!
PS. We have a lot of new comic books we picked up from the con by upcoming artist, we should be posting about them over the course of the next week or so. Check back for that as well.
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