Welcome to the work week everybody.  Hope ya’ll had a great weekend.

We will get to bacon in just a little bit…first as I was rooting through the interwebs today, catchin’ up on all sort o’ news, this popped across my screen…

As if my Tauntaun sleeping bag wasn’t the coolest thing ever…then comes this!  A MILLENNIUM FALCON BED!!! KA-FREAKIN’-POW PEOPLE!!!  I am typing in caps not only to help convey my excitement but also because I AM SCREAMING IN MY HEAD!!! This thing is beyond cool (that would be nerd cool, not standard cool like most of you may be accustomed too).

Check out more photos of this custom work of geek good on their YouFace profile.

AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!!!!

…and I got mine!!!!!

When I arrived home last night, I noticed the welcome mat on my front porch was leaning up over something.  I just assumed that my bi-weekly comic book order had arrived as this was the normal way the UPS guys leaves my packages.  I was half right, my books were delivered but also to my surprise I noticed a much larger box sitting with them.  The box was from ThinkGeek.

Oh boy…it was finally here!

You know you want to see this thing…so follow me after the jump.

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Nerdy Star Wars edition…

So, first we have this incredible stop motion movie of Lego characters building the over 5,000 piece Lego Millennium Falcon.  SOMEONE MADE THIS!!!  Kudos to you sir…I’d never have the patience for something like this.  There are tons of little details (like Obi-Wan / Yoda using the force to lift something and all the little janitor scenes) so watch closely.  It’s also kinda long but it creates such nerd joy…

and B, this great little video of a dog dressed up like an AT-AT.  Typically I am completely against dressing up pets, but there are exceptions and this my friends is one…

Have a great weekend everyone.

It’s been a while since I posted a “Nerd News”.  There are plenty of other more established nerd sites that do a much better job at categorizing and snarking on all those wonderful things that dudes like me dig, but this is WAY TO GOOD not to share.

I present THE BEST CAKE EVER!!!

There is no room for discussion.  If there is an existing list of BEST CAKES EVER, then this goes straight to number one where it will reign forever and ever.

Look closer at the detail…

Freakin’ Brilliant!!!

And better yet – it was a WEDDING CAKE!!!!  Okay, a Groom’s cake but STILL!!!

Dudes, any woman willing to allow a dead Tauntaun stuffed with Skywalker groom’s cake is a KEEPER.  Period, end of story.

Story from StarWars.com via Gizmodo via Geekologie & Topless Robot (Nerd News, especially this glorious, gets around).

Hey man nerds…enjoy.

Ladies in bikini’s reading the script to Star Wars.

Al and Sywak (SHOUT OUT) – this is mostly for you.

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Last weekend there was this little event called COMIC-CON happening in San Diego.  Nerd Nirvana for me and many others.  In all my years, I have only been able to go to San Diego just once and now with Lil’ Baird in the mix and as I am no longer working in the sports and entertainment industries, I probably won’t be able to go again for a few more years…so like many, I gots to get my news through the interwebs.

While catching up today, reading a few show summaries, I ran into this link on Maximum PC.  They are featuring 600 images of costumed individuals from this year’s Con.  I absolutely love CosPlay (I think it stems from my overall love of Halloween)! Some of the outfits you run into at Con’s are just incredible and VERY creative.  I will spare you the slave Leia or fat guy in spandex photo (although there are plenty featured) and just share with you the ONE photo that I thought was brilliant:

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Time to let my nerd flag fly…

First – it was Daddy Daughter Day on Sunday.  With me being gone all week in Utah, I gave Better Half a break and took off with Lil’ Baird.  Where did we go?  Why the Motor City Comic Con!!!

We both got dressed in our Lucasfilm shirts (I got her a onesie when I went to their offices last year) and headed out.

It wasn’t a bad show this year and a nice crowd for a Sunday.  The big highlight for dad was getting to meet Carrie Fisher (that’s Princess Leia y’all).  Lil’ Baird and I stood in line for only about 15 minutes and I had Ms. Fisher sign a photo for my baby girl!  SWEET!! [Read more →]

Wait a minute…what happened to “Nerd News…Week 7″??  Well, I haven’t been nerdy at all lately!  Two full weeks have past since my last nerd post and seriously, I am shocked, SHOCKED at how “normal” my life has been these last few weeks.  Work has a lot to do with it.  When I was with Fathead, it was all sports and entertainment al the time.  At TOMCAR, well, it’s all about cars and off-road and military and heavy industry…so focus shifts.  And with Lil’ Baird in the picture, the time to sit and play a game for 12 hours straight, or plow through my comic books or even just surf the interwebs as been greatly reduced.

So here was what little nerdy things I was able to come with during these last two weeks.

• “LOST” continues to rock.  I completed LOVED this last week’s Saywer ep.
• I picked up a little Indiana Jones figure at Toys R’ Us when we were getting Lil’ Baird a bouncy.  It’s the classic outfit from “Raiders” and he has a pistol, whip and fertility idol.  I have given him a place of honor on my desk.  It is too bad that “Crystal Skull” sucked so bad, because these toys deserved a chance.  Hasbro did a real good job with them.
• “Burn Notice” ended it’s third season this week and it was a doosey!!  Season four starts back up this summer.  One of my guilty pleasures and it has Bruce Campbell in it!!
• I did watch a bunch of “The F Word” when I got home from Chicago, eight episodes.  They were all from 2007, but I don’t care.  I am developing a man crush for Gordon Ramsey.  Not the U.S. version, but the REAL Ramsey on BBC America.  Also watched two episodes for “Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares” from BBC last night as well…it’s literally night and day his delivery back home vs. what FOX does to his shows here.
• I HAVE NOT SEEN “WATCHMEN” YET!!!  More of Lil’ Baird ruining my life*…we are going to try to see it this week…just need a sitter.
• And finally, I have rediscovered Ebay…to my own peril.  I was a junky back in the early days, buying just about my entire collection of 12″ Star Wars “dolls” on Ebay.  I hadn’t been on in about 2 years and suddenly found myself back last week.  I got to surfing around and ended up bidding on five things, winning three!!  One was a really cool 1980’s “Return of the Jedi” action figure case in the shape of a Stormtrooper rifle.  It still has a KayBee Toys price sticker on it and is in great shape.  Also picked up a Hallmark ornament that I missed three years ago (Imperial Guard) and a set of misc. figures from the late 90’s.  More stuff for the collection…now if I’d just buy the rest of my shelves, maybe I can show it off.

*I may love my baby, but I am not above callin’ her out.  NOTE: when I say things like this…please note that I am a sarcastic ba$tard.

While I thought this week would have been more nerdy…it wasn’t til the weekend were I finally got a few good nerd licks in.

Two things from this last week:

1) I discovered the new X-Men cartoon on NickToons Network.  I had no idea they had a new Nick channel and as I was surfing for ANYTHING but the Pistons slaughter in Cleveland to watch on Saturday night, I ran into this channel and their mini-marathon of “Wolverine and the X-Men“.

When growing up (say in college) they had a pretty solid X-Men cartoon on Fox for about 4 or 5 years.  The animation was crap, but the stories were pretty deep and pulled straight from the comic book.  I have to say, after watching seven episodes, this one is pretty good too!  The animation is much better, there is some computer work with vehicles (like on the new “Batman: The Brave and the Bold“) but it’s pretty limited.  The cartoon is episodic, but you can still get a decent pay-off if you saw them as stand alones.  I added it to the DVR.  If you are nerdy, like the X-Men and get NickToons Network…then watch!  Here’s the promo clip…

Then on Sunday, my brother and his wife came over to the house.  My brother brought a gift…it was my VERY FIRST STAR WARS FIGURE CASE!!!  And inside were 39 original figures from all three of the first movies including my very first Chewbacca AND Tuskin Raider!  He said he found it in a box of stuff he’d been carrying around with him for years.  Oh happy day!

I never did get back on the computer to play Lego: Batman…but soon my pretty…soon…

Until next week!

or “How Baird Got His Nerd Back!”

So a much better week in Nerd News for me.  I got myself FOCUSED and came at it with a new found dedication to nerdiness!!  I have not been nerdy for so long now that I just had to get myself back in the game!

In “Watchmen” News…they release this incredible little game on their website.  Stuff like this really gets by nerd juices flowing!!  I got caught up in it and played this for about 20 minutes in my office on Thursday (shhhh).  Between things like this and what is being updated everyday on “The New Frontiersmen” site…it’s just AWESOME.  I told Better Half to get a sitter now so we can get to the movie the weekend it opens.  Since we’ve had Lil’ Baird, I haven’t stepped foot in a theater.  I even missed “Quantum of Solace“.  I will NOT miss this movie in the theater!!!

It was clean out the DVR weekend as I watched:

• Batman: Brave and The Bold- good episode with Despero and the Green Lantern Corp, caught up
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – three episodes, caught up
• Psych – two episodes, caught up
• The F Word – six episodes (more on this later)
• Leverage - one episode, not caught up yet
• 30 Rock – two episodes, caught up
• The Office
• Burn Notice – two episodes, caught up
• Lost (this show is SO ROCKIN’ THIS SEASON!)
• Top Chef
• Dirty Jobs - four episodes, caught up (one was a show on animal rendering – DO NOT watch if you are eating!)

It’s really easy to blow through the DVR when there really is no sports on TV.  No MSU basketball, no Pistons…freed up a lot of time.

When I got back home last Thursday, I had a new box of comics waiting for me as well.  Now usually when I get my new books (bi-weekly) I sit down immediately and can get through almost all of them in one, maybe two nights.  Being so busy with work, I still had a stack from the shipment before I needed to get through.  In between all that TV watching, I knocked out all about 12 books, getting me just into this weeks shipment.  I should be caught up by Tuesday night!  One good book I got this week was the first part of Neil Gaiman’s “Whatever Happened to the Cape Crusader” story running in “Batman“.  Neil is a terrific fantasy / comic writer.  You may have seen his name lately as the writer of the new movie ”Coraline“.  A quick aside, the producer of “Coraline”, Bill Mechanic is a Michigan State grad.  In the movie, the dad is seen wearing a MSU sweatshirt!  GO GREEN!)

I am also try to catch up this week with all the news from the New York Comic Con that happened last week and the International Toy Fair going on right now.  I was lucky to attend both of these events last year with Fathead.  This year, just picking up what nuggets I can from the blogosphere!

No video games this week…but I am determined to get back to playing Lego Batman.