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Holli Gram
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Nerdiest obsession: Nerds

Wastes way too much time on: Jarvis (my ipod touch)

Hates with the fiery passion of a thousand suns: Ignorance

Favourite female nerd: Codex

Favourite male nerd: Carl Sagan

Secretly collects: Musical instruments

Most embarassing nerd related memory: I’ve never been embarrassed for being a nerd!

Wanted to be ____ when you grew up: A rockstar

Biggest nerdy triumph: Watching the final episode of TNG at the SKYDOME in my Starfleet pyjamas

Nerdy line that makes you swoon: “I was thinking about you today, but it was more like I was Baltar, and you were only in my head like Six.”

Top 5 sites visited daily: Craigslist, Facebook, Penny Arcade, Youtube, Nerdgirlpinups

Top 5 things everyone should check out asap: The Outbred Inlaws, Hyperdimentional Physics, The Atheist Experience, The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, Skirtboarders

Anything else to add? The cake wasn’t infact, a lie! I found it quite delicious and moist!

Books

Fave book(s): The Zombie Survival Guide, The Looking Glass Wars, The Death and Life of Superman
Fave author(s): Max Brooks, Isaac Asimov, Orson Wells

Most disappointing "based on the novel" film: Jurassic Park (they cut WAY too much out of the book)

Book you'd love to see made into a film: The Looking Glass Wars
Most impactful book/author: George Orwell’s 1984

First book you ever read: The Pokey Little Puppy
First book that made you REALLY like reading: Jurassic Park
Currently reading: The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction

Video Games

Fave game(s): Mass Effect Series, Fallout 3, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Portal, the Half-life series, the Halo series, Metroid

Fave character(s): Samus Aran, Gordon Freeman, GLaDOS, Cortanna

Biggest cash grab game(s): World of Warcraft, and any other game that you have to pay to play after paying to own.

Spent way too much time playing: Mass Effect

Most disappointing ending in a game: KOTOR 2 darkside ending

Would fit right in: Mass Effect
First game ever played: Blades of Steel on Atari

Currently playing: Fallout 3
Fave gaming news site: Penny Arcade 

 

Comics

Fave single issue: Deadpool #900

Fave Character(s): Deadpool, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor
, Jubilee
Fave storyline(s): Marvel’s Civil War
, Avengers Initiative
Fave 'verse(s): Marvel

Fave Artist/Inker(s): Rob Liefeld
First comic book ever read: A random “Spiderman Saves the Montreal Expos” comic they used to give away at baseball games
Currently reading: Marvel 1602

Movies

Fave film(s): All 6 Alien movies, and all 5 Predator movies (count ‘em!)
Fave director(s): Tim Burton (for NOT ruining Batman)
Fave actor/actress: Jodi Foster, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp

Most inspiring film(s): 2001, 2010, Contact, any sort of science/space documentary

Biggest cinematic letdown: Transformers 2 (Balls on Devastator… ‘nuff said)

First film ever seen: E.T.

Last film you watched: 2012 (it was bad, but in the funnest way possible!)

Fave film news site: IMDB

Music

Fave band(s): The Outbred Inlaws, anything Dave Grohl has touched
Fave musician(s): Dave Grohl, Tom Morello

Fave singer(s): David Bowie, Dave Grohl, Freddy Mercury
Fave album(s): David Bowie-Earthling

Best concert/Best band to see live: Treble Charger (go audience participation!)

Worst concert/Worst band to see live: Kittie (ZERO stage presence)
First concert: Barenaked Ladies at the Oshawa Civic!

Currently hooked on: Jonathan Coulton


 

Science!

Fave theory: M Theory
Fave scientist(s): Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking

Most important discovery/invention: FIRE!

Fave experiment(s) you've ever conducted: My father and I conducted the first ever successful launch of a space probe at the Edmonton Space and Science Center’s Space Camp
First time you realized you were into science: The first time my daddy explained the stars to me

Currently reading up on: Hyperdimensional Physics