Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

A Birthday Meme

I saw this interesting meme here and thought I should do it just for he heck of it. Here are the rules: Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday. The resuls (for October 6th): Events 1600–Jacopi Peri’s Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence, signifying […]

The Terminator Movies: Why the robots lost…badly.

I’ve been watching the first and third Terminator films the last couple of days and something occurred to me as to why the robots–from the future, of course–always lose: they’re not very smart robots.Let’s face it, the robots of the future didn’t exactly choose the “calm” approach to getting things done. The first Terminator was […]

Spectra Pulse Magazine?

I have a question for you all. Do you know anything about the Spectra Pulse Magazine? I was recently at Borderlands and discovered this free issue (the premiere issue for 2008 apparently) and decided to pick it up because it sounded interesting…and it was. In fact, I want to get more of it. It’s really […]