It was a LONG time ago: May 1987. I was living in Pinson, Alabama and I had always wanted to go to a go to a “real” Science fiction convention. I had attended a couple of small events in Birmingham…
A twitter thread on the great game system from FASA… https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975386122460237824 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975386558491656192 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975387305992212483 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975388199752257537 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975388399082397697 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975388812129062912 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975389244582703105 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975389908633374721 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975390212925874178 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975390671946338305 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975391119235305473 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975391626154659842 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975391932393410562 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975392394110799872 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975393431013986304 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975394175960174592 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975394551010652165 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/975394959611310081
I’ve recently started jumping into Twitter threads with both feet in order to highlight some of the high geekery I love. Here is my recent thread on Star Trek coloring books… https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970139852355395584 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970140400852918273 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970140667912605697 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970140936784269312 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970141189860192256 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970141480538050560 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970141871363194885 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970142933528793089 https://twitter.com/JosephDickerson/status/970143776810381314…
I’m actually quite involved and interested in this question, as my job is to design computer interfaces and support new opportunities in user experiences that I could not have even dreamt of even 5 years ago (I did mobile design…
As you may have seen from many of my other posts here, I’m a big Star Trek fan. Big Big fan. When I got the DVD of the new Trek movie last week, I immediately dived into the extras to…
Thursday September 8th was the 50th anniversary of the airing of the first episode of Star Trek, “The Man Trap”. On that day I was in Washington DC for business, and before I arrived I realized I was only a…
I’m a prop collector. Not the actual original props used in movies or TV shows – I couldn’t afford that habit, and if I tried She Who Must Be Obeyed would divorce me – but replica props. I have phasers,…
Several months ago I planned a Las Vegas trip for myself and my son Hunter as a graduation present (he finished high school in June) – he had never been to Vegas. Though he’s not yet old enough to do…
In Seattle for work this week and was able to make some time to visit the Star Trek 50th Anniversary Exhibit at the EMP Museum. The display is fantastic, with Paramount opening up their archives to showcase props and costumes…
I really don’t want to write anymore about Star Trek, but then CBS/Paramount does a stupid thing and I have to. This week, the owners of Star Trek released fan film guidelines, mostly in response to the lawsuit against the…
Never go full hipster. That, alas, is what I have done… In my man cave are stacks and stacks of vinyl, both new and old, and it has become my newest hobby/slash obsession. Recollecting albums I had as child, or…
As most people who read a blog like this knows, the new Star Wars film opened to a colossal amount of tickets sold – $250 million in the US, and $500 million dollars worldwide, and that was just during the…
Two of my pop culture obsessions are Star Trek and the Planet of the Apes series. In a just world there would be Apes conventions around the world just like there are ones for Trek… but, alas, the world does…
Star Trek: The Motion Picture actually WAS an episode of the TV series – it was a script that was written for the planned Star Trek Phase II series. So in that respect it is the most like an extended…
To celebrate Star Trek’s 49th birthday, why don’t you read my thoughts on the franchise? I’ve written a lot on the series over the years, and here’s an index of the best of those posts… Wow, I’m prolific… A look…
Here’s an ad from Starlog magazine, circa 1977. When I first saw this, I thought “Wow, this is totally illegal now.” But after doing some research I found that, yes, you totally can put a different “face” on the US…