Legos, Books, Bronies, Grammar, Hufflepuff, and Bill Pullman movies

Awesome links for today!

Women in STEM jobs LEGO sets!

Missing your favorite cancelled SciFi shows? Check out this awesome, exhaustive list of books similar to Firefly, StarGate Universe, Pushing Daisies, Caprica, Angel, Kyle XY, Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles, 4400, Roswell, Jericho, Journeyman, and Carnivale.

Dear Bronies: I totally owe you an apology. Like whatever you want. I will not mock you again.

How Good Books Can Change You from the Atlantic. Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book immediately comes to mind, but I'm sure there've been others.

Semicolons: a love story from the New York Times: Kurt Vonnegut + grammar policing? I'm interested.


Have you checked out Pottermore? For those of us who always wanted to know where we'd fall in the House Sorting, it wa sa bit of a surprise not to land in my favorites of Ravenclaw or Gryffindor, but Hufflepuff! Really? Hufflepuff? But apparently it's cool now:


Awesome tv and movies consumed!

For the 4th of July, we did a Bill Pullman marathon!

Starting with the obligatory Independence Day: I still cry every time Vivica A Fox pulls the dog into the tunnel closet, and when Will Smith finds her at El Toro, and a few other times. You'd think this was a Nicholas Sparks flick.

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, Man's best weapon is the will to survive.

Also watched: Battle for Los Angeles.








The Grudge: not the most obvious pick, but still.

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.










Brain Dead: Awesome B movie from 1990. Also starring the frequently confused with Pullman: Bill Paxton. 

Dr. Rex Martin is a leading neurosurgeon specializing in the cerebral misfunctions that cause mental illnesses, whose expertise is called up by an old school chum, Jim Reston, who is now part of the mega-corporation Eunice. Reston needs Dr. Martin's help in extracting crucial data from the mind of John Halsey, once a top mathematician at Eunice, now a paranoid at the local asylum. Can Dr. Martin help both Halsey and his friend, or is he getting caught up in a corporate nightmare from which he may never escape?





And while you're watching bad B movies, might I recommend Frankenhooker? Yes, you read that correctly. It's awesome.

A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street hookers.