geek bomb
Those moments when the stars of geekdom all seem to align in harmonious conjunction, when the elements add up to a pure geek gestalt that makes your skin tingle, your smile stretch to the back of your head, and you find yourself helplessly jumping up and down in your seat?
I call that a geek bomb.
Personal examples?
- In Pulp Fiction, when Butch picks up the baseball bat, then picks up the chainsaw, and then sees the purest of pure geek weapons — HOLY HELL, IT’S A FREAKING SAMURAI SWORD — hanging on the wall? Geek bomb.
- In Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the Nazis drive off with the Ark of the Covenant, and then Indy appears [insert Raiders theme here] chasing after them ON A FREAKING HORSE? Geek bomb. (Echoed later on by an equally powerful geek bomb when he appears on the deck of the submarine. Hoo-whee.)
- In Superman Returns, when Superman lifts THE ENTIRE FREAKING KRYPTO-CONTINENT into space, finally showing on screen the incredibly massive moving-planets-if-he-so-chooses strength that comic book fans know Superman has but have never gotten to see? Geek bomb.
I could go on in this vein FOR DAYS… but I do have a point.
Last night’s episode of Heroes.
Seen it?
If not, I will keep this spoiler-free.
Suffice it to say… I got ONE MOTHER OF A GEEK BOMB last night.
If you saw it, you probably know what I’m taking about.
My glee reservoirs? They are full.
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Got your own personal geek bombs? Then delurk, my pollen-dusted readers… delurk!
December 5th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Still trying to figure out the geek bomb idea. So far I understand that IT MUST BE IN ALL CAPS.
How about this:
Dr. Smith is giving a presentation at a conference and pulls out A GREEN LASER POINTER!!
Hmmm….that doesn’t seem to cut it…let’s try again:
Dr. Smith is giving a presentation at a conference. Then when Dr. Jones criticizes Dr. smith, Dr. Smith TRIES TO BLIND DR. JONES WITH A GREEN LASER POINTER!!! But Dr. Jones [cue Indiana Jones music] USES A MIRROR TO REFLECT THE GREEN LASER AND BLIND DR. SMITH!!!!
Better.
December 5th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Well, I don’t have a geek bomb for you, but the kitty must be fed!
(Gotta get me a cat for my blog.)
December 5th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
My first ha-ha, exposure to the very existence of green laser pointers occurred during an engineering-management meeting at Johns Hopkins. The engineer i.e. geek presenting Stuff used a red pointer in conventional presentation ways. Various geeks in the audience asked questions about Stuff. Then it happened: an audience geek asked a somewhat confusing question, pulled a laser pointer from his pocket, and put an INCREDIBLY BRIGHT GREEN SPOT on the wall screen to show the presenter what he was asking about. Not only had I never seen the beam of a green laser pointer, I didn’t even know they existed. Personal geek bomb.
Bought one for myself a short time later; it’s one of my absolute all-time favorite not-a-toys.
December 5th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
No comments? Then God kills a kitten.
December 6th, 2006 at 12:11 am
Battlestar Galactica, when the Galactica jumps into the New Caprica atmosphere, unleashes some vipers while falling through the sky, and then jumps away before hitting the ground. OH MY GODS.
December 6th, 2006 at 6:09 am
poor kitty
December 6th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Right. It seems we need to implement some sort of POINT SYSTEM into these comments.
+1 Point for commenting
+2 Points for commenting ON TOPIC
+5 Points for mentioning cookies
-10 Flapillion Points for mocking the post and/or poster
So far today, Kym’s in the lead with 2 points. (Go Kym!)
Then, at 1 point a piece, we have Suldog, RJ, lightspring, and birchsprite.
Mabel is trailing behind with minus 10 Flapillion Points.
It’s a tight one, folks!
C’mon! Let’s hear about your GEEK BOMBS, people! Get cracking!
And Mabel… watch it. Don’t forget — I have a silver bullet in my arsenal with your name on it.
December 6th, 2006 at 10:28 am
Ummm..Ummm…Ummmm….I know I have had these moments because my husband has modeled the bruises on his arm from where I smacked him screaming “How $%^ing cool was THAT!!!” while watching a movie or show(at home). But I don’t actually retain those moments. ok..got one:
Serenity: The Operative pulls out his sword and Mal counters with: a screwdriver! Ooooh. That man’s ingenuity and bad luck in a fight knows no bounds!
Oh and this one:
Matrix: Lawrence Fishburne does a martial arts move with his hand..like a pose..and I blurt “Gasp!!!! I KNOW that move!! I learned it in tai chi class!!” Imagine..me..knowing a move.. It boggles I tell ya. Enought that I may require cookies to return my brain function to normalish. Chocolate chip cookies.
Sween: your cat’s eyes freak me out! So big,….sooo round…… and soooo yellow. shiiiiiivvvveeeerrrrr Feed him already…make him stop!
December 6th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Ooooo! Alison takes the lead with a whopping 7 POINTS.
Any challengers?
December 6th, 2006 at 11:07 am
I’m sorry, I must have missed the SUBTEXT that explained how ON TOPIC meant TV and/or MOVIE geek moments. I think it was that closing question with the phrase “personal geek bombs” what threw me off.
Me, I’m going for high score in an absolute value context. Also I think I should get double Flapillions for mocking with sarcasm.
December 6th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Wow! Over in Bizarro World, RJ takes the lead with 20 Flapillion Points! Bizarro Cookies for RJ!
In this world however, RJ is a big poopyhead.
December 6th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
C’mon Jason, have a heart. -10 Flapillion + 3. That said, the first part was true, except that I changed the name of the presenter to protect the innocent. RJ clearly knows the wonder of the green laser pointer. It’s up there with flying screaming monkey toys.
I promise that at least my next
1075 comments will not attempt to mock the post or poster in any way. If I fail, then you have my blessing to post said blackmail material. Heck, let’s make this a challenge. 10 comments it is!December 6th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
How about if I say you should feed the cat some of your cookies? Is that plus points for commenting, plus super plus points for mentioning cookies, or is it minus 50 flapillion points for daring to suggest that your cookies should go to the cat?
December 6th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Most hilarious and geek bombiest moment in Winter Passing: Will Ferrell’s character can’t handle singing and playing the guitar in his open mic debut, so instead of freaking out, he pauses and whips out a tape player and PLUGS IT INTO THE AMP WHILE HE SINGS. Awesome.
Thanks for not spoiling Heroes… I need to catch up on my episodes.
Any points for delurking?
December 6th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
I guess I get points subtracted for messing up my html. Doh!
December 6th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
how about when Indiana Jones is mano a mano with the swordsman with mad numchuck-like skills - and then Indy calmly pulls out the gun & shoots him??
Or on STNG in one of the few episodes that had a plot true to the old ST when #1 (who was/willbe such a #2) is visiting the council that has been taken over by aliens and he “PSYCHE!” totally punks them by pretending to be taken over too?
Or in MIB when they rush to the newstand to find out why all the aliens are fleeing - WS assumes the guy that looks like the guy in Rocky Horror Picture Show is the alien (sub-geekbomb ‘oh no, not Meatloaf again’) - BUT NO - it is the cute little pug? Or when Will Smith squashes a roach under his shoe and says “Oh, was that your autie?”
Now I must [lan out my Christmas cookies - chocolate-peppermint pinwheel cookies, orange-ginger crackle cookies, sugar cookies, lemon bar cookies (the ones with a shortbread bottom and a lemon curd/custard gooey top), mexican wedding cakes - mmmm, love the cookies! got to make caramel corn & fudge too!
December 6th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
*cough*suck-up *cough*
Although yes, all the MIB bits were most definitely geek bomb.
Aside to g-dog - I am kidding of course. And thanks for providing yet another novel opportunity for mocking on my part.
December 6th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
mmm, I thought it was bullsh*t, but OK.
I am a cookie-aholic too, so all putative sucking up aside, I will be making all of those to gift to others.
And, as a member of the corporate world (and formerly academia), never underestimate the value of sucking up!
I’ll share any of rthe recipes with anyone interested.
December 7th, 2006 at 7:06 am
mmmmmmmmmmmm cookies
Rather than the recipes ….. could you just send me some?
December 7th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
well, ms_sprite - love to send you cookies, at least the ones that travel well, which leaves out the lemon bars (too squishy). would postage cost more than the cookies?
December 8th, 2006 at 3:45 am
I’ll toss in another, so I can get out of second-to-last place. I’d didn’t actually add up the points, but I’m guessing that’s where I am now.
Same episode of Battlestar Galactica. It looks like the Galactica’s rescue of all the people off of New Caprica is going to fail. Adama is ready to throw in the towel, and in comes the Pegasus, ramming into one of the Cylon basestars, breaking up into pieces. The broken ships end up taking out two of the three other basestars.
That episode was just so full of awesomeness. It’s the best bit of television I’ve seen this season, if not ever. It could only have been better if there were cookies involved. Maybe Lee ate them all.
December 8th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Right, things have really gone crazy while I wasn’t looking. Let’s see if we can update things here.
Ramzi is now at minus 9,999,997 Flapillion.
Suldog was doing well mentioning cookies and cats, but then he dared to
suggest that my cats would even TOUCH my cookies, so he received a yellow card.
Cindy gets 2 points for commenting on topic plus the coveted HEY LOOK I DELURKED medal.
g-dog has an AMAZING SCORE of 31, what with three whole geek bombs and 5 separate cookie references and a burgeoning mail order cookie empire. Go g-dog!
RJ has shot off wildly into a score of nullity, but is obviously having a fabulous time, so we all wish him well.
Birchsprite just wants cookies, so that’s cool.
And Kym is perilously close to breaking a cardinal rule of SPOILING BSG FOR ME… but I quickly skipped over the details and have rammed a sharpened stick into my ear to eliminate all references that may stick around.
So. Where were we?
Oh yeah. Cookies rule.
December 12th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Ok..I’m back from Nova Scotia and seated as always at my ‘puter.
Am I still in the lead?? Huh? Huh?
December 14th, 2006 at 11:24 am
Sorry Alison — g-dog totally took the lead while you were gone.
December 14th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
Damn.