I discovered that I’ve encountered many things in my life without knowing their names. When I was in college I dated a cutter. I didn’t know he was a “cutter”...

One thing that makes us geeks is the hive mind that we share. Hardcore opinions run through our consciousness like the stripe on a skunk. Star Wars...

Oh, Peter Sagal. Has thou forsaken us?

"To put it succinctly, looking back, I wish I had spent less time learning Elvish in order to teach it...

I have a strange fascination with servants. I’m not saying this as a blue-blooded person who thinks that the “help” are quaint. I’m fascinated with them...

I admit it. I love my Amazon Kindle.

Yes, I'm anti-DRM and I've never been interested in ebooks before. I used the argument of wanting to enjoy books...

When my husband and I went house shopping for the first time we weren't sure what we were looking for. We found one house that I really liked, only the...

Wars are going badly, the global economy is tanking, we just had possibly the most bittersweet election results ever, and yet the very real, close to home...

Hi, I’m Mur. I’m a geek. While I have embraced this geekdom for the past fifteen or so years, it was terrible to go through high school when my girlfriends...

I have always been a creature of habit. I will watch a beloved TV show or movie multiple times, like slipping into a favorite pair of fuzzy socks. When...

I’m so often feeling “Kumbaya” about the aspects of my geeky lifestyle that it hits me like a train every time two aspects don’t quite mesh. In this moment,...

Back in the day, people would mark time by the passage of the seasons. Later, they turned this passage of time into “years” and “months”. Some Roman...