George Allen Miller One Geek's take on all things SciFi

Ok, what Geek doesn't think Felicia Day isn't the best thing since sliced Platemail. Er..Well anyway, the past few weeks the genius behind The Guild (Best show ever) has been spending some time in that famous little town called Eureka. She has been the liason from Congress, <boo> and has been involved in approving the first manned FTL space flight. My first thoughts of this were, simply put, "Awesomely Awesome!". Yes, I happen to be a big fan of Ms. Day. I think her show The Guild is just great and her timid acting style is a perfect fit for any geek. She's seems to be fitting well into the cast of Eureka and her character seems right at home dealing with Fargo. I wonder how long she'll be on the show and if it will effect the long term future of The Guild. Eh, probably unwarranted concerns. Either way, if you haven't had a chance to check out Eureka's new summer season with Felicia Day, I highly recommend it. Not only do you get to see her supreme geeky coolness, but you ... More

I'm not depressed because the movie sucked, quite the opposite, while not opposite, it was decent not award winning. I am depressed because I grew up during the internet age and had countless opportunities to create a powerful and cool web sites and faltered. Not faltered, or failed even, just never went for it. Granted I didn't go to Harvard, or anywhere decent. Community college all the way. I often wonder if I had gone to Harvard, Princeton, Yale or some other top school, how would I have turned out. I know its fruitless to look back and wonder what if, but shit man, I could have made the facebook site in two weeks, who couldn't? I've remade 5 million dollar a year websites in a month before, from scratch! Sigh. The real question is, ok, I didn't invent some crazy cool website like Facebook, but can I now? Is it still possible to invent something that will rock like all the others have? Is the idea of dorm room companies even possible anymore? I don't know. There's a lot of others out ... More

If you haven't heard, or if you live under an old typewriter with these funny little arms, there's a fight out there among them blogger folk over whether or not there will or won't be a Singularity event. Alex Knapp, Charlie Stross and Michael Anissimov, to name a few of the big names, are having a nice little fight over just what it means for a computer to be a true AI. Lets get some framework going here, and then I, yes I, will show you how all three are wrong and what the meaning of the Singularity event really is. First, the singularity event is something that will/might/won't happen in the future where computers become just as smart as people. That is the event. Once that happens we can call up our trusty dusty computer and ask it a question and it may or may not answer, since it's just as smart as us it may just choose not to. Of course, that's the problem that Mr. Stross has. The computer, you see, will never be as smart as us because we have millions of ... More

I had a chance to take a look at the new show on TNT, Falling Skies, over the weekend. My initial reaction was, in a word, disappointed. But, honestly, after some reflection and a look at the previews of the season to come, i've moved from disappointed to slightly dismayed. So, the story opened up just after an alien invasion by some six legged freaks with really weird and improbably space ships. They have basically conquered all of humanity, kill any adults they find and capture and turn into slaves any children they find. Sounds like a fun bunch. When I first started watching the show I noticed that it started to feel a great deal like V from the 80's. Let me  be clear, V from the 80's NOT ABC's recent attempt to revamp the show. The modern V sucked balls. Now, I know, V really wasn't the exact same as Falling Skies. In V, they aliens had come, they hadn't taken over anything, and we mostly kicked their asses and sent them on their way. Then someone decided to start a television series and BAM, we ... More

So in case you haven't noticed, those crazy kids have finally given up. Yes, the poor unfortunate and underprivileged Winklevoss twins have finally said enough is enough with their pursuit of getting money out of the Facebook. I really am finding it hard to give a good goddamn, are you? Of course, I doubt anyone really gives a shit about these two idiots. They were granted a 60+ million dollar win against the Facebook and they still pursued more litigation. Yes, they 60+ million dollars wasn't enough to satiate their incredible desire for revenge, or wealth, or just plain greed. But don't worry, they will still live on and be part of the elite of the country, find great jobs, and lobby the hell out of congress to not raise their taxes. Yes, you just watched a dance of the rich and assholish. They fight, barter and trade over millions while you and me can't afford to pay  our bills. They piss away millions and while millions of American's go unemployed. Nice isn't it? In case you haven't noticed, I hate the Facebook. I much ... More