Scarlettkitten, ninja
red ninja – http://www.ravelry.com/projects/scarlettkitten/ninja
- Intellectual: “Tonight you have learned the final and greatest truth of the Ninja: that ultimate mastering comes not from the body, but from the mind.” – Splinter, Ninja Turtles, 1990
Marianasays/1-Up
Rainy Day Socks – http://www.ravelry.com/projects/marianasays/rainy-day-socks
- Intellectual: “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” Frank Howard Clark
- Team Spirit tie-in: Rain in Minecraft
AND
Slubby Sheep Yarn – http://www.ravelry.com/people/marianasays/stash/slubby-sheep
- Geek Pride: Notch AKA Markus Persson
- Colors represent the different environment blocks of minecraft, his creation. The blocks are used by the player to create landscapes, and yarn is used to create garments and other things.
Tsuki, Hellmouth
Eva’s Shawl in Summer Berries http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Tsuki/evas-shawl
- Scientific: the double-slit experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
- Unity = “something blue”
- “Buffy admits to Willow that she feels “real love and passion have to go hand in hand with pain and fighting” and that says a lot about lace knitting to me.
- the shawl I was trying to remember is Haruni
Kryslyn, Squints
Tiny chicken and cupcake http://www.ravelry.com/projects/Krislyn/tiny-chickens
- Nerd Culture: Petting zoo – feed things to animals like cupcakes to chickens
- Team Spirit tie-in: In CSI episode season 8, episode 16 “Two and a Half Deaths”, the vic has a rubber chicken shoved down her throat, and obviously that is where cupcakes go
C-three, Writer
red baby afghan
- Nerd Culture: Leaf peeping – to see the red leaves
- Team Spirit tie-in: Andrew Marlowe is the creator of Castle, and he and wife Terri Miller have two children. I bet they’d like this for their kids and red matches the blood/ink for the pen in the logo of the show.
Dissertation Talk with Ciellel
- In T4: 324 Nerd Warriors had dissertations approved (~48% of all of those on teams)
- Of those, almost two thirds (63%) made it to the halfway point successfully, and about half completed their dissertations.
- As of last Friday, there have been about 200 dissertation proposals for T5 so far, on a similar pace as T4.
- In T4, 72% of the Squints submitted a dissertation proposal; 95% of those made it halfway and a whopping 81% finished their dissertations.
- In T4, 67% of Team SGC submitted a dissertation proposal; 57% of those finished their dissertations.
- In T4, 63% of Team Rangers submitted a dissertation proposal; 73% of those finished their dissertations.
Closing Rambles
- Podcast Theme Contest! Send your theme song submissions to nerdwarscast@gmail.com
- Voicemail line: 423-509-8750. Call me any time!
The Musics
- Nitro9′s submission
Contributions and comments can be sent to nerdwarscast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Nerd Wars Podcast, E10
Opening Rambles
- Thanks to Nitro9 for the theme music!
- Venus Transit time-lapse
A First Chat with MollieWollie
- Chronicles of Prydain
- The Black Cauldron
- Dale Murphy:
- Discworld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld
- Turtles all the way down…
- Jingo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingo_(novel)
- Tiffany Aching: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_Aching
- Avatar: the Four Elements: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/avatar-the-four-elements
- Avatar: the Legend of Kora
- My Little Pony/Skyrim
Closing Rambles
- Podcast Theme Contest! Send your theme song submissions to nerdwarscast@gmail.com
- Stump Elise!
- Voicemail line: 423-509-8750. Call me any time!
The Musics
- Nitro9′s submission
Contributions and comments can be sent to nerdwarscast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Nerd Wars Podcast, S02 E02
Opening Rambles
- T5 is starting soon! ::muppet dance::
A Chat with Elise
- projects can be turned in on days 1-28, inclusive
- no skill-based bonus points for T5
- team tie-in points are team spirit points again
- Glitch NW group
- Fitocracy NW group
- normalization formula
- official drop-outs
- Nerd Wars Wiki!
- extracurriculars for T5
- Tour de Fleece:
- Ravelympics
- test knitting or crocheting squares for Nerd Wars Scarf project
Closing Rambles
- Sign up! http://ravnerdwars.info/sign-up/
- Sign ups are open until the 26th. Teams will be announced on May 27th!
- Podcast Theme Contest! Send your theme song submissions to nerdwarscast@gmail.com
- Voicemail line: 423-509-8750. Call me any time!
The Musics
- “Dropping Out of School,” by Brad Sucks
- Dead and Lovely by Tom Waits
- The closing theme is “Paul Valery” by the Blue Scholars. I have been informed that the very opening bit is sampled from “Fireflies” by Owl City.
Contributions and comments can be sent to nerdwarscast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Nerd Wars Podcast, S02 E01
The Musics
- Fight for Your Right (to Party) by the Beastie Boys
- Flute Loop by the Beastie Boys
- Brass Monkey by the Beastie Boys
- Sabotage by the Beastie Boys
Contributions and comments can be sent to nerdwarscast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Nerd Wars Podcast, S01 E07
The Musics
- “Dropping Out of School,” by Brad Sucks
- The closing theme is “Paul Valery” by the Blue Scholars. I have been informed that the very opening bit is sampled from “Fireflies” by Owl City.
Contributions and comments can be sent to nerdwarscast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Nerd Wars Podcast, S01 E06
