Geeky Website: Physicsgames.net

Physicsgames.net

Literally, this site follows exactly what it’s name would make you think. It’s website for physics-based online games. No bells, no whistles. Just games upon games that focus on aspects of physics, such as light, waves, construction, mechanics, electricity, gravity and so much more.

The site features some of the most popular games, and on each page shows you the newest games which they have gathered. Other than that, the games are separated into seven categories: block removal, construction, demolition, platform, projectile, stacking and other.

Top Ten Male Broadway Character Geeks

Having trouble getting through your hump day? How about a top ten list!

I love musicals. No, really. I absolutely adore them. As a small child, I have been told that I used to watch the original Annie movie, rewind it, watch it, rewind it, watch it, rewind it, watch it, etc. (The DVD generation is never going to experience that joy, aww). To this day I get giddily happy over the opening chords of “Maybe far away …” I have been performing in musicals since I was about eight and was an on stage orphan in a local, summer camp production of Oliver. In high school, my best role was Aunt Elller in Oklamhoma! where  they gave me a gun, hehe, a gun. However, as a relatively normal looking, possibly even kind of frumpy, female, with a lower voice, I always knew that I had no chance of competing for the leads in most musicals. Fortunately, if you look out there carefully enough, you can find that there is a small but exciting representation of geeks in various musical roles! Who needs to fall in love with the hunk with the awesome tenor voice (unless of course it’s Donny Osmond in Joseph, ah, swoon!) when you can ogle these great well-rounded, male characters instead!

Fangirls Don’t Wear Pink

My name is Rosalind, and I’m a geek. I argue over which Star Trek series is the best (TNG FTW!), I explain the fermentation of soy sauce during Chinese dinner, and I can explain to you the story of Solid Snake. I’m also a woman.

What do you think of when you read the word “fangirl”? Wikipedia suggests that “it is commonly used in a derogatory sense to describe a girl’s obsession with something, most commonly a male teen idol or an aspect of Japanese pop culture.” However, just a little further up in the same Wiki article, a “fanboy” is a much more complex person who may have a fan elitism or a devotion to a particular hobby, brand, or franchise. So a fanboy can be obsessed with Microsoft or Spiderman or X-files, but a fangirl is in love with a hot guy? Yeah, that’s how I read that article.