Patrick Havens on May 24th, 2008

And a Photoshop geek I loved this… ad. And yes, I’m obviously a geek in other ways.

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Patrick Havens on May 8th, 2008

Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity.
From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. This base was [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 13th, 2008

He said “Revenge of the Sith” would be his final “Star Wars” film, but creator George Lucas is taking another shot at silver screens with the animated “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” in movie theaters in August.Lucasfilm Ltd. and the Warner Bros. film studio said on Tuesday they would release the movie on August 15, [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 22nd, 2008

Star Trek :: The Official Movie Site
The site is up. The trailer is on it, for those that hadn’t gone seen Cloverfield and enjoyed it when they showed it there. Or if they just want to show their friends. The site isn’t fully up as the link for lower res versions of [...]

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Patrick Havens on September 4th, 2007

In wandering around I ran across a great little sci-fi short story I thought I’d pass on, if you like it:
“So what you’re saying is,” Brithpth said slowly and distinctly, “is that you eat with the same orifice you breathe with?”
“Yup,” I replied.
My guest did that thing again. He paused, in the way that a [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 3rd, 2007

Some sci-fi props are cool, some are neat, and some are just plain corny. To qualify for cool, the prop has to strike a special nerve for me. The M41-A Pulse Rifle is such a prop. As seen in the 1986 movie “Aliens”, this prop became an instant classic. With is fully functional hero models [...]

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Lucas made a huge splash at the Rose Bowl Parade in which he had 200 “Troopers of the 501st” march in it as well as a whole band in Imperial garb. Afterwards he sat down for an interview and talked a little about his up[coming TV Series based on Star Wars between Episode 2 [...]

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Patrick Havens on July 12th, 2006

Russians launch inflatable spacecraft - The New Space Race
Genesis 1 could pave the way for space hotels by 2015
This artist’s rendering, released by Bigelow Aerospace, shows the Genesis 1 spacecraft in orbit. The craft is designed to inflate from a diameter of about 4 feet to twice that size.
A Russian military base has launched the [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 22nd, 2006

An interview with some guy in a Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly) costume… who turns out to actually be Joss Whedon! From the popular podcast at http://www.Geek-Week.net and the dorks that brought you “The Secret Wars Re-Enactment Society”

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Patrick Havens on May 6th, 2006

I just watched ÆON FLUX and I have to say that I was very pleasently surprised. I figured it’d be a good action flick. But it also had a great story line and it just seemed to work. I didn’t have a single time in which I wanted to shoot the [...]

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