Here's a nice little animated bit to share with the kids. Bonus points if you point out that this means there's billions of 6-legged critters pooping on our heads every day.
Possibly The Most Perfect Trailer Ever: The Expendables: Call To Arms
Ladies, you may want to avert your eyes.
Hyperbole? What's that?
All I Want From Comic-Con Is Starro The Conquerer
Seriously, if I can just get my hands on this, I'll be a happy, happy nerd dad.
Robo-Trippin' - The Only Thing New Is The Name
If this CNN Health article is to be believed, kids have just recently discovered that drinking cough medicine gets you drunk/high/whatever.
There's a new trend among kids, dubbed "Robo tripping," and it's not the latest dance. In fact, "Robo tripping" is one of several colloquialisms used to describe getting high from - of all things - cough medicine. (Get it? "Robo" or Robitussin.)
HA HA HA!! Yes, I get it!!!
Of course, those of us that actually were kids at one point more than likely know that this has been going on forever, or at least several decades. I graduated high school in 1989, and I still havce vivid memories of empty cough syrup bottles in little piles under the bleachers at football games. Of course, we didn't have energy drinks back then to exasperate the effects, so teens had to turn instead to cigarettes in order to amp the buzz.
Ugh. Parents absolutely need to be aware of their kids' tendencies to want to get a buzz on, but alarmist "This is the NEW Evil!!" claptrap like this doesn't exactly help much.
Thank You So Much, Twilight: Men's "Vampire Shoes"
Discovered this morning thanks to deals.woot, this is what Twilight hath wrought upon the world - men's "vampire shoes." Verily, Stephanie Meyer has a hell of a lot to answer for.
Too spiffy for me...
Lots-O-Huggin Bear Japanese Commercial
There's no use denying that this is a great bit of viral marketing for Toy Story 3...
...but THIS takes things to a whole different level!
"Resident Evil: Afterlife?" Sure, I'll Watch That.
There are a few certainties in life. Among them is the fact that where there is a Resident Evil movie starring Milla Jovovich, there will be a Nerd Dads stamp of approval laying nearby. We readily admit that they aren't great cinema, and the third one was a bit of a disappointment compared to the first two, but the trailer for the upcoming "Afterlife" installment looks like a hell of a lot of fun.
The most amazing part of my personal enjoyment of these movies, I think, is that I enjoy them so much, so unapologeticly, yet the games bore me to tears.
