Thing a Day! 1: The Nerdiness Continues

In light of the momentousness of today, I am gifting myself something that I am sure I will regret: work. Almost anybody that's into gaming or nerd rock knows the name Jonathan Coulton. A year or so ago (I suppose longer, given the nature of what I'm about to talk about) Coulton came up with an idea to do a song every week for a year and post it as a podcast and on his website. Most of them are very funny and all are very well done. This has inspired me to do something similar, albeit much smaller in scale. I present:

THING A DAY! from Bratcher Lev

Every day for a month I will post. Something. It may be funny. It may be depressing. It may be a recipe (there's nothing sexier than a man who cooks [eh, ladies?]). It may be a shopping list. It may be The Idiot by Dostoevsky copied word for word. But it will be something.

Thing a Day! 1: The Nerdiness Continues

Like most guys, I like star wars. I like it a lot. It's got a great, expansive story and the movies are a blast to watch. It only goes so far though. I'm not like some of those people. You know who I am talking about. Dressing up and totally geeking out is fine if you're into that; it's just a little much for me.

I was, however, surfing along and read about a book called Deathstar, or something similar. In it, the authors talk about the inner workings of the Deathstar (the moon-sized space station that housed a laser strong enough to destroy a planet). A figure was dropped that about a million people worked on the Deathstar at any given time.

So let's take a step back and look at what this means.

In the first movie, Luke blows up the Deathstar.

Luke Skywalker murders a million people.

Now, the Deathstar was a military installation, so many of the casualties were soldiers, but a station that large would have entertainers, merchants, etc. contracted out to fill the needs of those who work there. Those people had nothing to do with blowing up the planet of Alderaan. They just worked there.

Also, my good friend Barrett, like everyone else, is getting married soon, and I am one of his groomsman. The other day he called me up to ask me what my favorite color was. When I said burgundy, I could tell that wasn't the answer he was looking for. After a short line of questioning, I found out that instead of engraved pocket watches that would be thrown in a drawer never to be seen again, he'd make us all lightsabers. I did mention that Barrett makes lightsabers, right? He does, or at least he has, and to be honest, holding one is pretty impressive.

So we will all have lightsabers, and I am truly excited.

I hope they will walk down the aisle underneath our raised lightsabers.