One cool thing about running a blog—especially a blog that’s been around for a little while—is the opportunity to look at the stuff behind the scenes. Blog hosts have all manner of statistical breakdowns, including search terms that have brought denizens of the internet to the blog. Some of the ones that have wound up in the Therefore I Geek search term log are hilarious. Continue reading
Author Archives: Andrew Hales
Editorial | Bizarre Search Terms that Brought Web Surfers to Therefore I Geek
Filed under Editorial, Geek Life, Tracy Gronewold
Saturday Reviews: Avengers 34.1
Avengers (Marvel)
Written by Al Ewing, Pencils by Dale Keown, Ink by Norman Lee
I picked up the latest issue of Avengers expecting more of the great Johnathan Hickman writing I’d come to love and expect, only to be surprised and a bit disappointed, with a different writer. Instead of advancing Hickman’s beautiful, high minded story, the book took a diversion into a character I’m not all that interested in to begin with. Continue reading
Filed under Comic Reviews, Comics, Saturday Reviews
Winning Science September 12, 2014
Ever have that moment–perhaps at the DMV–when you wondered if the person you were talking to were actually brainless? Well a woman in China can truly make that claim, at least in part. After she received a brain scan for dizziness and nausea, it was discovered that her entire cerebellum was missing. Turns out, the woman is one of only nine known adults to have been born with this condition. While it is not unheard of for this to happen, the vast majority of persons who suffer from it die at a young age. In this woman’s case, the only symptoms were slightly impaired motor functions and a mild slur when she speaks. It says a lot about how well put together our bodies are when they can compensate for things like this.
I suspect that the people I yell at are actually just morons. Continue reading
Filed under Weekly, Winning Science
Guest Blog | Review: Until the End of the World, Preacher Vol. 2
“Forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils” -Roger Williams-
No matter who he is; no matter how far he has come or what he has accomplished; sometimes a man’s past can still haunt him. If he hasn’t dealt with it properly, it can control him in ways he could never have imagined. Despite having the powers of the Almighty himself, Jesse Custer finds himself face to face with his past and must use every ounce of will power he has to keep from letting it control and ultimately destroy him.
Filed under Comic Reviews, Guest Blog, Joseph De Paul, Reviews
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