A chronicle of all things Geek.
March 21, 2026
I paid my membership to the Montreal World Con. I will reserve my hotel room at a latter date. Thinking about getting a suite because I want to do a party room. Called it the Cosmic Lounge and have karaoke with food and drink.
March 17, 2026
I have been working a SciFi RPG setting for Savage Worlds. One of the problems I have is with the warp drive. The SciFi Companion has it as same system, same galaxy, and different galaxy. My scope is much smaller using just a section of the milky way galaxy. Also there are 3 different warp drives calls warp-1, warp-2, and warp-3. The number is a warp factor with how many light years you can get travel in a week. Well I am going to work on it and have something that will work for my setting.
March 2, 2026
One art form I am a fan of is storytelling. I have dabbled in writing, mostly poetry but I did try short stories. I have a story that isn’t finished and I have gotten to a point where my writing hasn’t progressed in a while. I hope to try again and finish it. If you want to know about the story I am writing you will have to wait until I finish it.
February 26, 2026
Two men share a dream.
To escape the air stream.
Together they start to build.
Gathering parts to be milled.
With a screwdriver, hammer, and wrench.
Building each part on the bench.
On to the carts to be wheeled.
Strung along the field.
Looking over their notes.
They assemble it with screws and bolts.
Connecting it all to the hull.
With each problem rolling around in their skulls.
Fusion reactor and Ion engines are in.
Then they attach the fins.
Wiring the controls in the cockpit.
They make everything fit.
Once a pile of junk.
Now something to get them out of their funk.
Seeing before their eyes.
The craft that will reach beyond the skies.
Strapped in their seats.
A new adventure they will meet.
When they started people would scoff.
But now it’s the countdown to blastoff.
Higher and higher they go.
Leaving behind them their woes.
Everything feels right.
Forward into the eternal night.
February 24, 2026
I do a lot sci-fi world building and have a few sports created for it. The first game was called Floatball. It is a game played in zero-gee. It has rules are a combination of water polo and team handball. It takes place in a large room that is totally enclosed. Beginning of each period and after each goal is a face-off/jump ball where one player is on the ceiling and the other on the floor. The ball is between them and would push off and try to tip the ball to one of your teammates. There is also bars players can grab to stop or change directions.
The other other sport I have is called Scapela and is played by one of my alien races called the Elvari. There is a scoop similar to Jai Alia strapped to one hand. The ball is hard like a lacrosse ball. Played on a hard court with a goal that is on a pole that can be scored at in 360 degree. There are also rebound broads in key spots on the side lines.
The last game is called Hover Hockey. Instead of ice it is replaced with cris crossing mag rails. Players have special shoes that let them “skate”. The puck also hovers as well. Not sure if I am going to have goalies or not.
February 24, 2026
I have been doing party room at Sci-Fi conventions for a few years now. I would have karaoke with non-alcoholic drinks and snacks. I don’t have alcohol because I can’t check IDs and run karaoke at the same time. I am planning getting a suite for the party room at Montreal World Con in 2027.
May 30, 2017
This is a video I made of the fans at FC3 in Rochester, NY.
Flower City Comic Com: http://www.fc3roc.com
Music is Welcome to the Con by Ookla the Mok.
Written by Rand Bellavia and Adam English.
http://www.ooklathemok.com
April 12, 2017
Back in the 90’s when the Internet was the playground for nerds in college they created the Geek Code to show off our geekiness. It increadiblely out of date especially with DOOM!, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Usenet, Kibo, and Dilbert. It really needs to be updated. USENET can be replaced with Reddit and Dilbert can be changed with web comics. That should be updated for the times. Well below is my geek code. Click here to decode.
—–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—–
Version: 3.1
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——END GEEK CODE BLOCK——
July 1, 2016
Back in 2006-ish I was introduced to podcasting by a friend at the time. Being a fan of sci-fi I got into Escape Pod and Galacticast. Would download them and then transfer them to PDA. Over time I found out about Podiobooks and others that are non-scifi. It inspired me to make my own. So I made started making my own.
I started with The Radical Geek Video Podcast. I thought that video would show the visual aspects of the geek community. (Videos are in past posts) Then there was Literary Wasteland. Did 5 episodes of it were I would review self published speculative fiction. I stopped that one because I am terrible with monologues because there is no feedback.
If I am going to make another podcast I would like to have a partner because I like feedback. I don’t know what it will be about, but that is part of the fun. Maybe do a Hogan’s Heroes introcast.
The Radical Geek 