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·May 19

The History of Bitcoin — Did You Know it Wasn’t the First Cryptocurrency?

Bitcoin is sometimes called the first cryptocurrency, but that’s not the whole story. For starters, it’s not the first cryptocurrency. The very first cryptocurrency was discussed all the way back in 1982. Since that time, there have been multiple attempts to create cryptocurrency, with varying levels of success. …

Technology

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The History of Bitcoin — Did You Know it Wasn’t the First Cryptocurrency?
The History of Bitcoin — Did You Know it Wasn’t the First Cryptocurrency?
Technology

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From the Desk of the Nerd Legion

·Apr 27

5 Times a Political Figure Had it Worse Than Donald Trump

A while back, when speaking to the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut, President Donald Trump said “No politician in history — and I say this with great surety — has been treated worse or more unfairly.” And given recent events, he’ll probably be whining about the same thing again even…

Humor

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Humor

3 min read


Apr 16

Writing a Sitcom / Half-Hour TV Script

I’ve been working on a few different scripts recently and had some people contact me to ask how I would write a sitcom script. Some of the free self-help items I found online seem overly vague — things like 1. Think of an idea for a sitcom episode. 2. Write…

Comedy

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Writing a Sitcom / Half-Hour TV Script
Writing a Sitcom / Half-Hour TV Script
Comedy

5 min read


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From the Desk of the Nerd Legion

·Apr 13

Face/Off: The Best A Version of a B-movie

When you hear the premise of Face/Off, you expect a B-movie. The good guy in the story needs to go undercover to stop the bad guy from detonating a bomb. How’s he going to do it? By pretending to be the bad guy. And how’s that going to happen? …

Movies

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Face/Off: The Best A Version of a B-movie
Face/Off: The Best A Version of a B-movie
Movies

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From the Desk of the Nerd Legion

·Apr 12

What to Do When the Rapture Comes

For many of us, (sadly) this is not our first Judgment Day. I’ll try to run through the obvious stuff quickly before moving on to the finer points for how you can best prepare for the Rapture. Basics: 1. Sell all worldly possessions (but keep the cash, the Lord tests us…

Comedy

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Comedy

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From the Desk of the Nerd Legion

·Apr 10

Face/Off — Can You Transplant a Face?

Greetings Nerd Legion! Welcome back to Everything is Possible. Where we take something from your favorite stories and find out how feasible it is in the real world. Flash back: It’s 1997 and a B-movie premise has made it to the A-list screen. John Travolta is going to swap faces…

Science Fiction

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Face/Off — Can You Transplant a Face?
Face/Off — Can You Transplant a Face?
Science Fiction

4 min read


Apr 8

Adventures in Creating a Cherpumple Pie Cake — Ridiculous Photojournalism

Here’s an old post from my blog, that I’m dismantling and moving pieces from over to here. The Cherpumple Pie Cake is the creation of humorist and ambassador of Americana, Charles Phoenix. It’s a crazy holiday dessert inspired by the Turducken. …

Baking

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Adventures in Creating a Cherpumple Pie Cake — Ridiculous Photojournalism
Adventures in Creating a Cherpumple Pie Cake — Ridiculous Photojournalism
Baking

8 min read


Apr 7

6 Thoughts About Rape Jokes

I wrote this a while back — May 2013 it was published in America’s Comedy, but now America’s Comedy is no more… so I’m reposting it here. Here are six of my thoughts about rape jokes: 1. To me, the offensive part of a poorly written rape, misogyny, or domestic…

Comedy

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6 Thoughts About Rape Jokes
6 Thoughts About Rape Jokes
Comedy

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From the Desk of the Nerd Legion

·Apr 5

Can You Have Claws and a Reinforced Skeleton Like Wolverine?

Greetings Nerd Legion! Welcome back to Everything is Possible. Where we take something from your favorite stories and find out how feasible it is in the real world. A popular topic online is whether X-Men Wolverine’s claws and reinforced skeleton are feasible in real life. While people (as far as…

Science Fiction

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Can You Have Claws and a Reinforced Skeleton Like Wolverine?
Can You Have Claws and a Reinforced Skeleton Like Wolverine?
Science Fiction

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From the Desk of the Nerd Legion

·Apr 1

Creating Cloaking Devices Like the Ones in Harry Potter and Predator

Greetings Nerd Legion! Welcome back to Everything is Possible. Where we take something from your favorite stories and find out how feasible it is in the real world. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Dumbledore gifts Harry an invisibility cloak for Christmas. It used to belong to Harry’s father…

Science Fiction

4 min read

Creating Cloaking Devices Like the Ones in Harry Potter and Predator
Creating Cloaking Devices Like the Ones in Harry Potter and Predator
Science Fiction

4 min read

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Erikka Innes

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