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Welcome to Toronto! Land of the rain!

Massive storm floating around town today - I managed to get into town during a brief break, allowing a dry walk to Queen's Quay, but the rain is pounding down right now. Lightning hit the CN Tower twice, but that's normal.

What isn't normal is that we're suffering a slight power outage in the building. Most of our elevators died this morning, so now there's two or three elevators servicing the whole building, with some security guard doing crowd control.

The network is becoming more stable now, but it was jumpy earlier.

Brought a lunch in today, but I'm kinda regeting that. This is the type of weather that calls for... something warm.

Thoughts on Geekiness

Might as well be Thoughts On Yaoi.

Is it just me or is this potentially the year of geeky films? Or, at least slightly retro geeky films.

Let's see what there is...

- TMNT (both from the comic and the I-remember-this-from-when-we-were-kids standpoint)
- Grindhouse (b-movie/cult film fandom)
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (adult animation/Adult Swim fandom)
- Spider-Man 3 (comic fandom)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (newer, but still in the land of the geek)
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (more comics)
- Nancy Drew (more of a retro geeky thing for girls)
- DOA: Dead or Alive (video game fandom)
- Live Free or Die Hard (More Die Hard, which is just cheesey if not geeky)
- Transformers (Don't need to explain this)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Ditto)
- Hairspray (remake of a cult film)
- The Simpsons Movie (pretty clear on this one)
- Fanboys (Yes, a movie ABOUT geeks)
- Underdog (animation fandom)
- Halloween (back to cult films)
- Mr. Bean's Holiday (While this PROBABLY won't be as big as in the states, Mr. Bean was a huge geeky thing in Canada back in the late 1990s.)
- In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (video games)
- Resident Evil: Extinction (ditto)
- The Dark Is Rising (based on a cult book series)
- The Golden Compass (ditto)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks ( o__________O )
- I Am Legend (I'm sure how to count this, but it's both based on a classic scifi novel and the popular Charlton Heston adaptation)
- Alien vs. Predator 2 (Don't need to explain this.)

There's also "Thomas Kinkade's The Christmas Cottage" which seems extremely goofy but not in the same pool of fandom as the rest of it.

And your fandom or childhood isn't up there, rest asured that 2008 will bring us "The Smurfs", "Power of the Dark Crystal", "The Dark Knight", "The Incredible Hulk", "Get Smart", "Iron Man", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Speed Racer", "Prince Caspian", "Indiana Jones 4", "Star Trek" and "Opus: The Last Christmas".

Now, admittly, I AM waiting for some of those films - If I could, I would have an Indy 4 ticket right now. It's also great that with some of the better films (of which there are probably going to be few, since some seem like stinkers already), us geeks can share a slightly more palatable version of our world with friends who are "normal". However, I am worried on two fronts.

( Cut for rambling )

And those are my geeky thoughts at the moment. They probably are a little off kilter from the norm, but I'm not of the older geek demographic. At least, not yet.

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Katie:

http://2719hyperion.blogspot.com/2007/03/haunted-mansion-supplement.html

:)