Geek Challenge: Favorite Geek Movie

While it’s a bit tricky for me to narrow down my list of Favorite Geek TV Shows, it’s not hard at all for me to name my Favorite Geek Movie. It’s Contact (affiliate) with Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey.

There are many things I love about this movie. It’s based on a wonderful book by Carl Sagan, but it’s different enough from the book to make it unique. It has some brilliant scenery in the film. I find it great how it mixes in real news clip from Clinton and other people, that were about different things, and makes them part of the story.

The SETI program has always fascinated me. I don’t know if there are extraterrestrials, but like a couple people say in the movie, “If we are alone, it sure would be a lot of wasted space.”

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Geek Challenge: Favorite TV Show Series

I’m a pretty big fan of sci-fi television shows, and trying to narrow them down to just one is quite difficult. I decided I’d share several …

Favorite TV Show Growing Up: I loved the V: The Original TV Miniseries (affiliate link) TV show. I know that many considered it pretty campy, but that’s what I loved about it. I also loved the horror aspect of it and when they ate the rats, I would totally get freaked out.

In college, I was absolutely hooked on Star Trek: The Next Generation (affiliate). Most of the shows had aired before college, but they re-played the episodes every night and a good friend and I would meet up and watch the shows. I was never a fan of the original series with William Shatner, but I loved Patrick Stewart, Wil Wheaton, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes and several of the other characters.

Lately, there have been so many shows I really loved — Eureka, Battlestar Gallatica, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis (a bit iffy on Stargate: Universe), and many others. Probably my favorite is Torchwood. I’ve never watched much of the Doctor Who series, but I love Torchwood (affiliate) and can’t wait for the next set of episodes.

April Geek Challenge

I’ve decided to do this April Geek Challenge to try and kickstart this blog. Some of these ideas might change, and I’m already a few days behind getting started, but this should be fun. I borrowed this idea from Thom Allen, so go make sure to check out his geek posts over on his blog.

Day 1 – Very first Geek

Day 2 – Favorite Geek

Day 3 – Your Geek Inspiration

Day 4 – Favorite book / book series

Day 5 – Geek you feel you are most like (or wish you were)

Day 6 – Favorite Web Show / Web Comic

Day 7 – Favorite Board Game

Day 8 – Favorite Shirt/Hat/Shoes (Something you wear)

Day 9 – Saddest geek scene

Day 10 – Favorite TV Show Series

Day 11 – Favorite Movie

Day 12 – Best alien /alien race ever

Day 13 – Geekiest quote/phrase

Day 14 – Current (or most recent) geek wallpaper

Day 15 – Favorite OS / Config

Day 16 – Favorite Developer

Day 17 – Favorite Hardware Vendor

Day 18 – Most Undesirable Tech Company

Day 19 – Favorite Gadget

Day 20 – Best! Videogame! Ever!

Day 21 – Favorite Vehicle

Day 22 – Favorite Tech Company

Day 23 – Favorite Language (coding language that is)

Day 24 – Geek Hero

Day 25 – Best Website

Day 26 – Your favorite number

Day 27 – Favorite tv opening theme song

Day 28 – Favorite Comic Book

Day 29 – Favorite Robot

Day 30 – Biggest Geek Wish