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.

Well last week I was super nerdy.  This week, not much…

I did spend Thursday in front of the TV with that stomach virus, but I just got caught up on “Top Chef” and a really old episode of “Bones“.  There was an interesting special on Air Force One on History Channel, but I don’t remember too much of it.

I am enjoying “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” cartoon series on Cartoon Network.

Ohhhh, like my show you do?

I know the movie was crud, but that was because they tried to take three 22 minutes episodes and squeeze them together as a theatrical.  The series is really crisp with some interesting story lines. Even the two episodes that have had Jar Jar in them weren’t that bad.  The one thing I am surprised about though is the body count.  I know they are clones and hence dispensable in war, but is this not a kids show?

No time for video games this week, so nothing new there.

My missing Lego pieces came in on Friday, so the Death Star is FINALLY COMPLETE!  More on that this week.

There is a new “Watchmen” viral campaign that launched this week.  This site features a really cool 70′s newscast clip about Dr. Manhattan.

I did get time to read the second volume of “Ex Machina“.  Written by Brian K. Vaughan (also author of “Y: The Last Man” – a MUST read, seriously!), it’s the story of an engineer who accidentally becomes a superhero, ends up saving one of the twin towers during 9-11 and goes on to become the mayor of New York.  It is a great read and one that I am sorry to say I didn’t pick up on when it first came out.  Thank the maker for graphic novels.

The only other thing is to figure out what nerd stuff I will be putting in my new office at work.  TOMCAR has been sharing office space with another company and we’ve all sort of been intertwined.  We’re sort of formalizing space in the building now and the side we are taking included enough office space for yours truly to get his own little office.  It’s great cause it’s right on the corner of the building and has two walls of glass!! But two walls of glass also equals a cold room in the middle of January.  Oh well, price to pay.

Here’s hoping for a more nerdy week this week!