*Portrait of me at work today*

Apologies for the lack of posts lately - work is exploded! I hope to be back soon!

Okay, bare with me. This is going to be a long story that is totally worthwhile. In the Firefly episode “Objects in Space“, Simon gets shot in the leg and Zoe gets to practice her field surgery to get it out. One of the tools she uses is a “probe” that has a very small screen on it.

“Chris” from Applied FX made these props and knew that the screen would never be readable in TV resolution, so he had a bit of fun. Below you will find the flowchart that is squished into that itty-bitty space on that itty-bitty prop. So awesome! This flowchart would be hilarious without knowing it’s origin!

via fireflyarchive

Oh man, I didn’t hear about this until just now! Andy Hallett, best know for his portrayal of Lorne on Angel, died March 29th after battling congestive heart disease for five years. He was only 33 yrs old. So sad!

Andy Hallett’s acting always impressed me because I really wanted to hate Lorne. I really wanted to find Lorne irritating and uncreative and cheesy. But Lorne never was that. Andy Hallett was able to bring real emotional depth to the court jester. You could see the tears of the clown and it was moving. It is so unfortunate that we won’t get a chance to see that talent applied to future characters.

Michael Bay is a douchebag. This evidence comes from comicbookmovie.com. I’ve excerpted the douchebaggiest parts:

Michael Bay’s Star Trek Connection

Transformers director Michael Bay may be exploiting his cousin, wife of Leonard Nimoy, to get the Spock actor to voice a Transformer.

“I’m still not done with all the voices,” Bay explained recently about the “Revenge of the Fallen” robot casting for the film, which hits theaters on June 24th.

You might think that their familial ties would make such a deal easier; Bay, however has said that it’s quite the opposite.

“[Nimoy] is married to Susan Bay, who’s a cousin to me,” Michael explained, saying that he’s afraid of insulting his famous relative with the meager amount he is able to pay his voice actors. “I just feel kind of bad about asking him. Like ‘I can’t pay you that much? But would you do this voice?’”

So Michael hasn’t worked up the nerve yet to ask his famous cousin. Instead, the pair have been using a third relative as a go-between.

“Would he do it?” Bay asked. “He suggested to my mom that he might do it.”

I feel so bad for Michael Bay that the first Transformers movie only made $319 million, so he can’t afford to pay Nimoy very much and has to get his mom to twist his cousin’s arm to get her to guilt her husband into working on the cheap.

*GROAN* What a douchebag.

Have you even been playing COD4 wished you could feel those bullets you were getting hit with? Ever wish you could feel the impact of get slammed to the ground in WoW? Well! Now you can!

Utilizing 8 pneumatic hammers (4 in front, 4 in back) the FPS Gaming Vest will articulate every chain gun round and mace hit you encounter! Bundled with COD2 and compatible with more than 2 dozen (mostly) current games you can bring increased reality by threatening your mortality!

via Kotaku

There was always that kid who had the raddest toys. For me, it was Tucker. He had Castle Greyskull AND the Millennium Falcon AND the G.I. Joe Jet! Jeez…

I think this Star Trek Bridge playset might be this generation’s envy toy. So freaking rad and detailed! Now imagine you could also get the transporter room playset to send you to every fantastical location (like the underwater world Bathtubis or the overgrown jungle of Backyardondo!). Why would you ever need another toy?

via toynewsinternational

Of all the summer movies I’m looking forward to (Wolverine, Star Trek and..ahem.. Harry Potter), G.I Joe has me the most worried. Partially because the original content is best left as a childhood memory (see also: Thundercats) and partially because they gave Snake Eyes a rubber costume with veins and lips.

In an attempt to assuage my fears, Hasbro/Adult Swim have released G.I. Joe: Resolute - ten 5-minutes webisodes of violent manga-esque goodness. Above is episode #1 in which shit gets fucked up and people actually die! Looks good so far!

“Snake Eyes” and his lips co-chillin’ on set:

Gallery Nucleus and I am 8-bit are teaming up to curate the Street Fighter tribute group art exhibition Jab Strong Fierce. The press release says that it is being presented “in celebration of the new Street Fighter movie and SF4″.

Why anyone would want to celebrate the release of the SF movie is beyond me, and SF4 is kinda old news, but I fully support some of my favorite artists taking a crack at some gorgeous Capcom art.

This is Martin Hsu’s piece for the show entitled “Static Hollow”

Wow. This is a most excellent piece that Inside Edition did on Nintendo waaaay back in 1988. I had no idea that there were game counselors that you could call up with you got stuck! Found this tidbit on Dork Yearbook which is totally worth checking out for a look back into the dorkiest (raddest) of childhoods:

via infinite lives

A very small portion of me was on the front page of Penny Arcade today! This is the moment where our Vault Boy swarm was just beginning. We were excited, and little did we know what was coming. Also, little did I know there was a giant penis pointing at my head.

Vault Boy swarm in full effect: