Greetings and salutations geeks & nerds alike! Neil Egan here – now co-contributor (or co-conspirator?) to the spectacular GeekyThingz blog.\u00a0Can I get a “WooT!”<\/p>\n
Creator of GeekyThingz, and one of my best buds, Dwayne aka Dopegroove, has been kind enough to welcome me to this small but growing corner of the geek universe.\u00a0 So from now, we’ll both be adding our\u00a0particular insightful commentary\u00a0on thingz like\u00a0cool gadgets, gaming, anime, that crazy tech world and generally anything geek related.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
So to start off this exciting day, how about some morbid news (yeah?).\u00a0Hal 9000’s\u00a0evil red eye\u00a0will be glowing a little less bright today with the news that Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. The author of\u00a0one of the most\u00a0frightening prophecies of technology gone amok, 2001: a Space Odyssey,\u00a0died in his home at the age of 90.<\/p>\n
I also found out that on March 4th, there was sad news for all the roleplaying fans out there. Gary Gygax, the father of Dungeons & Dragons\u00a0died at age 69. Two big influential figures in the geek world pass on to meet that big Dungeon Master in the sky. So, in their tribute, I offer the classic Flash video based on\u00a0the recording of the Dead Ale Wives interpretation of a typical Friday night for D&D players. Here’s CyberMoon Studios’ 8-bit rendition:<\/p>\n