The podcast opens with the old X-Men cartoon theme song in honor of X-Men 3: The Final Stand and the launches into a review of geek mom and geek parenting web sites.
There’s no fiction review this time around, as I’m still slugging my way through George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows but I do have my summer reading list, which includes books by John Scalzi, Warren Ellis, Jack Vance, Keith Baker, Peter Hamilton and Joe Hadleman.
Getting the Podcast
Show Notes
- Opening Music: X-Men Cartoon Theme Song
- Intro
- Busy, Busy: Quiet two weeks for Nuketown, busy two weeks for real life.
- Had our garage sale; made about $50 but more importantly, got a lot of stuff out of the basement.
- Geek Chores: With many of the baby-related preparatory chores done, I’ve been trying to get a handle on my geek chores:
- All of the baby’s stuff is finally out; not all put away, but at least know where it all is. And the baby’s car seat is now strapped in.
- Inventorying HeroClix
- Filing Comics
- Organizing the D&D campaign: posting saga notes, finding ways to store minis, etc.
- X-Men 3: The Final Stand
- Saw it on Memorial Day with my brother-in-law Dave (we both needing a little escapism before our respective wives went into labor.
- Full review on Nuketown
- Nuketown Beta
- Progressing quickly; sometime later this month Nuketown will go on a (hopefully short) hiatus while I put the final tweaks on the new design and get some guinea pigs to check it out. If you’d like to be one (I already have a few but more are welcome) e-mail me at nuketown@gmail.com
- Busy, Busy: Quiet two weeks for Nuketown, busy two weeks for real life.
- Promo: Geek Fu Action Grip
- Geek Fu Action Grip
- http://www.geekfuactiongrip.com (Web Archive)
- Geek Fu Action Grip
- Sites of Note
- Since Mother’s Day just passed, I thought I’d talk about some mom/parenting geeky blogs.
- Geeky Mom
- “raising children on nothing but brains and gadgets”
- Thoughts on parenting and life from a geek mom pursuing her Ph.D. And she’s apparently in Pennsylvania, since she’s discussing the Democratic primary for Senator.
- http://www.geekymomblog.com/
- Parent Hacks
- Tips and tricks for parenting. Many from the mom perspective, but there more than a few dads visiting the blog as well.
- http://www.parenthacks.com/
- Kiddley
- New blog featuring Craft and activity ideas for kids.
- http://kiddley.com/
- Promo: Escape Pod
- Summer Reading List
- The Ghost Brigades
- By John Scalzi
- Buy it from Amazon
- Set in the somewhat distant future where humanity fights an unending war against alien species for control of a handful of habitable worlds. It’s a follow up to “Old Man’s War”, in which you could join the military at age 75 and get a brand new body … but then had to fight in a war that would almost certainly get you killed.
- In the new book, it looks at the “Ghost Brigades”, a military unit staffed by clones whom have a lifetime of memories, but the practical experience of 5 year olds.
- Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1
- By Warren Ellis & Darrick Robertson
- Buy it from Amazon
- This graphic novel features a dystopian future following journalist Spider Jerusalem. A Amazon.com review says ” Spider investigates a controversy involving an emergent subculture of genetically altered humans.
- It’s supposed to be a great read, and it should be a fast once since it’s a graphic novel.
- Tales of the Dying Earth
- By Jack Vance
- Buy it from Amazon
- I’ve heard people talking about Jack Vance, one of the grand masters of fantasy, since I started playing D&D in 4th grade. The books are set in a far distant future in which Earth is about to be consumed by its now-red-giant Sun and magic is real. I’m reading it to complete this bit of my fantasy education.
- Camouflage
- By Joe Haldeman
- Buy it from Amazon
- Two immortal aliens battle their way through history in a story that sounds like a bad Highlander movie but it was apparently good enough to win a Hugo.
- The City of Towers
- By Keith Baker
- Buy it from Amazon
- I’ve been itching to run an Eberon campaign for a while no, and reading this book helps me scratch that while satisfying my need for an fast-reading soft-cover fantasy novel at the beach.
- Pandora’s Star
- By Peter F. Hamilton
- Buy it from Amazon
- Intelligent space opera in which humanity discovers and imprisoned mass mind hell bent on galactic conquest. Heard good things about it, and I like the idea of a hive mind as the bad guys, rather than an ideal.
- The Ghost Brigades
- Promo: Science Fiction Podcast Network
- http://www.tsfpn.com (Web Archive)
- Outro
- Next on Radio Active: A review of Stephen King’s Cell, which I also listened to while painting Jordan’s room.
- Looking for more pure science fiction themed podcasts. Also looking for blogs and podcasts by geek moms and dads. Know of one? E-mail me about it.
- E-mail: nuketown@gmail.com
- Skype: nuketown
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