Last week in the midst of a nice lull, in an otherwise unpredictable day, the new coworker I was helping train turned to me and asked if I have a zombie survival/escape plan.  As a nerk (that’s geek and nerd all in one) this question is not completely weird to me.  As a victim’s advocate [...]

I read a lot. It’s my first and favorite hobby, but I love sharing what I read almost as much as I enjoy the act of getting lost in a book or an article. When I was a kid I used to come up and try to share the new knowledge I would get from [...]

Sometimes it’s really hard being a girl. From a young age, we’re told that we can be anything we want to be. We’re encouraged to try new things and left with the thought that when we get older everything we were spoon fed will be true. And then we grow up and discover that, yes, [...]

Hi my name is Mike and I’m a smoker. I haven’t always been a smoker, and I don’t plan on being one for long. Like every smoker I’m thinking it is time to quit, and like all smokers I have a list of good reasons why I should. Things like money, health, smell, and family [...]

BSIG doesn’t run articles over the weekend (at least at the moment), so we are late to report that it was somewhat suddenly determined that July 29th (Wil Wheaton’s birthday) should also be known as Don’t Be a Dick Day. To Wil, I’d say happy day-after-your-birthday (happy afterbirth?). Celebrity birthdays are not necessarily more notable [...]

I was once a devout follower of the church of Pandora. I suffered through the streaming caps, endured the songs I had no interest in hearing because I had already skipped over too many. My days were full of unanswered questions like “How is this artist at all similar to the suggestions?” and “Why can’t [...]

There are very few things in this world that I truly hate. The Yankees. Green and red peppers. Jar Jar Binks. But most of all, above and beyond anything else, I hate cancer. And not just a normal, emotional filled hatred. But a slow burning, deeply ingrained hate. In fact, there aren’t really words adequate [...]

I am always running into people who tell me they are curious about ghost hunting and they often want to know how to get started.  So, here is what I believe is a good beginners guide to starting out as a ghost hunter. First of all, get a friend or two to go with you.  [...]

I left the theater after seeing The Amazing Spider-man feeling disappointed. Part of it was the story, but mostly it had to do with Spider-man’s character. And to explain why I first need to talk about what a hero is. You want to be a hero. Everyone does. That’s one of the reasons we love [...]

There are three movies that came out recently that are really connected to how we view women in this culture. First, there’s Hanna, directed by Joe Wright. In essence, it’s a coming of age tale about a girl with a mission to avenge the death of her mother, and on her journey she discovers that [...]

There’s just something about the bad guy. And I’m not talking about the bad boy; the one who wears leather and rides a motorcycle and you can’t take home to mom and dad – but the bad guy; the one who plots to take over the world or burns down churches full of people and [...]

It’s come to my attention that I’ve been a part of the Star Wars community and fandom for 17 years now.  Seventeen years.  1995 is when it all started back up for me.  I can still remember where I bought the entire first wave of figures.  It was Target, for under $5 apiece.  Ahh, the [...]