Getting your geek on: a review of The BBook of Geek
Life doesn't present many opportunities to watch the entire Star Trek canon and call it "research," and when it does so, you'd be a fool to pass up the chance.
Brian Briggs is no fool, and when Citadel Press offered the BBSpot editor a contract to write The BBook of Geek, Briggs used the book as an excuse to burnish his geek cred. He watched every original Star Trek episode and set his phasers to stun. He watched X-Files episodes and wanted to believe. He watched Babylon 5 and, err... admired the Amiga-produced CG effects.
Oh, it might sound like fun, but Briggs worked hard. He resorted to watching sci-films at 1.5-2x speed with the pitch adjusted. He boned up on science at the Ann Arbor public library. And he was forced to play video game after video game.
The result is one of the few geek humor books on the market. It certainly has the "geeky" bit nailed; the book's
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