Today they announced the new Doctor Who, he will be the 11th actor to play that role. His name is Matt Smith and he is fairly and unknown. He is also the youngest actor to play the famous timelord. I am holding back judgment until I actually see him in the role but man is it going to be tough stepping in the shoes of David Tennet... only time will tell.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
The New Doctor
Today they announced the new Doctor Who, he will be the 11th actor to play that role. His name is Matt Smith and he is fairly and unknown. He is also the youngest actor to play the famous timelord. I am holding back judgment until I actually see him in the role but man is it going to be tough stepping in the shoes of David Tennet... only time will tell.
Xmas is Over
Today Harry and I took down all our Christmas decorations. It was sad but also nice getting our house back in order. I got to finally move the Big Screen TV to its rightful spot and hook up my surround sound. Now I'm just waiting to get an HDMI cable to we can get true HD from our cable box.
Friday, January 2, 2009
More Star Trek Videos and Digitizing
Been trying to get more of The Guild footage digitized as I'm going to start editing the BTS stuff soon. Between digitizing tapes I'm editing last years footage of Star Trek the Tour. It's great fun to see how geeky and excited we were when we went last year... so much fun.. you can watch the videos on my You Tube page
Thursday, January 1, 2009
It's A New Year...
Every year I make various resolutions and every year for various reasons I don’t keep them. So instead of disappointing myself I am going to set life goals.
- First goal: Is to be a better husband, after five years of being together your life becomes a routine, you do the same things day in and out. This year I’m going to try and vary the routine as much as possible.
- Second goal: To be a better friend, I have some wonderful friends who have enriched my life and I don’t see them as much as I would like to. My goal is to see my friends at least twice a month, even if it’s just a quick lunch. If we can’t meet up then will call each other and talk over the phone and catch up on each other lives. I miss my friends.
- Third goal: Lose weight, last year I gained 30 lbs. As a somewhat excuse I did start using testosterone gel and my doctor said that one of the side effect is weight gain but it also doesn’t help that I don’t work out or eat properly. So I am going to start to work out again as much as I can and work on eating better.
- Fourth goal: Do more creative things, I use to write poetry and was working on a sci fi novel a well as a fantasy novel. I video tape everything and would love to be able to editing pieces together to share with family and friends. I need to get back to being creative.
- Fifth goal: To finish updating my website. I recently purchased Geekyfanboy.com and I’m slowly transferring my personal website from Yahoo to that site. I hope to have it up and done with in a few months.
- Sixth goal: To be a better human being. To care more, to love more, to be a patient and kind person.
Life is way to short to sit around and complain about how things are so unfair. You never know if this is your last breath.. and if it is I want to make sure I left this life knowing I loved, lived, and laughed to my fullest.
Here’s to a wonderful 2009
- First goal: Is to be a better husband, after five years of being together your life becomes a routine, you do the same things day in and out. This year I’m going to try and vary the routine as much as possible.
- Second goal: To be a better friend, I have some wonderful friends who have enriched my life and I don’t see them as much as I would like to. My goal is to see my friends at least twice a month, even if it’s just a quick lunch. If we can’t meet up then will call each other and talk over the phone and catch up on each other lives. I miss my friends.
- Third goal: Lose weight, last year I gained 30 lbs. As a somewhat excuse I did start using testosterone gel and my doctor said that one of the side effect is weight gain but it also doesn’t help that I don’t work out or eat properly. So I am going to start to work out again as much as I can and work on eating better.
- Fourth goal: Do more creative things, I use to write poetry and was working on a sci fi novel a well as a fantasy novel. I video tape everything and would love to be able to editing pieces together to share with family and friends. I need to get back to being creative.
- Fifth goal: To finish updating my website. I recently purchased Geekyfanboy.com and I’m slowly transferring my personal website from Yahoo to that site. I hope to have it up and done with in a few months.
- Sixth goal: To be a better human being. To care more, to love more, to be a patient and kind person.
Life is way to short to sit around and complain about how things are so unfair. You never know if this is your last breath.. and if it is I want to make sure I left this life knowing I loved, lived, and laughed to my fullest.
Here’s to a wonderful 2009
A Look Back at 2008
As this year comes to a close I wanted to take a quick look back at 2008. This year has seen many highs as well as many lows.
Of course the best thing that happened in 2008 was Harry and I getting married, it was a dream of a lifetime and it was as ever beautiful and geeky as we planned. His family visited during that time and I got to meet Harry’s mother Zita, sister Gerda, her son Leonhard and her fiancé Bernd. All were wonderful, kind and loving people.
Another high for 2008 was going to Star Trek The Tour, three days of Star Trek geekiness and Harry and I loved every minute.
Another high was getting my first job for a network show, America’s Toughest Jobs aired on NBC for one season only but it was a fun experience and it lead to my current job on Deadliest Catch for Discovery.
And a really good high was the election of Barack Obama for our next President of the United States. Not only because he is our first black President and a Democrat it’s because when he talks you actually believe him. Many from the JFK generation said when he spoke he moved you. That is how I felt for the first time listening to Obama speak. Great things are ahead for this country.
And with that said now to the lows of 2008. Of course the biggest low at least for me personally is the passing of Prop 8, the gay marriage ban in California. This fight is far from over, one day folks will understand that all people should have equal rights.
Another low is our economy, people losing their jobs, houses and retirement funds. This hasn’t effect me directly but it has affected many of my friends and family.
Luckily for me the highs have outweighed the lows and 2008 was a pretty great year.
With a new President let’s hope he can start to re-build this great country of ours.. only time will tell.
Of course the best thing that happened in 2008 was Harry and I getting married, it was a dream of a lifetime and it was as ever beautiful and geeky as we planned. His family visited during that time and I got to meet Harry’s mother Zita, sister Gerda, her son Leonhard and her fiancé Bernd. All were wonderful, kind and loving people.
Another high for 2008 was going to Star Trek The Tour, three days of Star Trek geekiness and Harry and I loved every minute.
Another high was getting my first job for a network show, America’s Toughest Jobs aired on NBC for one season only but it was a fun experience and it lead to my current job on Deadliest Catch for Discovery.
And a really good high was the election of Barack Obama for our next President of the United States. Not only because he is our first black President and a Democrat it’s because when he talks you actually believe him. Many from the JFK generation said when he spoke he moved you. That is how I felt for the first time listening to Obama speak. Great things are ahead for this country.
And with that said now to the lows of 2008. Of course the biggest low at least for me personally is the passing of Prop 8, the gay marriage ban in California. This fight is far from over, one day folks will understand that all people should have equal rights.
Another low is our economy, people losing their jobs, houses and retirement funds. This hasn’t effect me directly but it has affected many of my friends and family.
Luckily for me the highs have outweighed the lows and 2008 was a pretty great year.
With a new President let’s hope he can start to re-build this great country of ours.. only time will tell.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy New Years Eve
Today Harry and I were invited to a friends for a New Years Eve party. Neither Harry or I are into big groups of people or parties but we thought it would be fun. But at the last minute I wasn't feeling so hot and Harry was having some tooth pain so we decided to stay home and celebrate the new year with just the two of us and Daisy. It was a quiet but nice night.Happy New Years.. 2009 is going to ROCK!!!!
Star Trek The Tour
Today I started working on editing together some of the video from our wonderful three trip to Long Beach for Star Trek The Tour back in February 08. We took over three hours of video and watching it now brings back such great memories. Harry and I are such geeks.. we had such a wonderful time. If you want to see the videos you can go to my You tube video page and watch them there.. I have a few up now but plan on putting up more as I get them done...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Being Sick and needing Serenity
I've been sick on and off the past few weeks.. it's a cold that just won't leave. Well today it was at it's worse and I was feeling horrible. So I decided to rest on the couch in front of our new 60" big screen TV and watch one of my all time favorite movies Serenity. If you don't know it is, look it up online. It's a movie made from one of the best yet very short lived TV series called Firefly. It's from the wonderful mind of Joss Whedon.
It was exactly what the doctor ordered.. I relaxed, sat back and watched a fantasic movie.
I hope I feel better soon....
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Re-Digitizing The Guild
After the lose of my hard drive I had to start re-digitizing the 50+ hours of footage I shot for The Guild BTS. It's a slow process but I should be done in a week or so and I can start cutting together some cool BTS pieces for the DVD. Wish me luck that my drive doesn't crash again.
Dr. Horrible DVD
Today I was finally able to sit down and watch the Dr. Horrible DVD extras and listen to the commentary and I LOVED IT.
First of all if you don't know what this is you can go here and watch it for free.
If you are a Joss Whedon fan then you already know how AWESOME this show is. But what is extra special about this DVD is there is a commentary track that's called Commentary: The Musical and cast and crew sing their commentary while the show is playing.. it's totally cool. There is also a "regular" commentary which is also very fun. There are few BTS pieces and a very cool Evil League of Evil section where fans sent in videos of their characters. Some of them were so cool and interesting.
I know you can watch this show online for free.. but it's worth every penny of the $9.99 to buy the DVD and support such a cool and innovated project.
First of all if you don't know what this is you can go here and watch it for free.
If you are a Joss Whedon fan then you already know how AWESOME this show is. But what is extra special about this DVD is there is a commentary track that's called Commentary: The Musical and cast and crew sing their commentary while the show is playing.. it's totally cool. There is also a "regular" commentary which is also very fun. There are few BTS pieces and a very cool Evil League of Evil section where fans sent in videos of their characters. Some of them were so cool and interesting.
I know you can watch this show online for free.. but it's worth every penny of the $9.99 to buy the DVD and support such a cool and innovated project.
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