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Loot Crate: Geek Goodness Shipped To You Every Month

8/31/2013

Loot Crate is a subscription service that sends you a box-load of gamer and SF merchandise. Depending on the plan you choose, you will get a monthly 'crate' of items ranging from t shirts, buttons, action figures, stickers, patches, and more. Each month has a different theme, with past names like 'Varsity,' 'Mashup,' & 'Equip,' and subscribing puts you in the running to win a larger Mega Crate.

There are one, three, and six month recurring subscription plans available, starting at $19.37 (that includes shipping).

Check out their website: www.lootcrate.com

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Sci Fi Journal Road Trip To The Pinball Wizard Arcade, Pelham, NH.

8/24/2013

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Explore The Haunted Side Of Providence

8/23/2013

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Providence Ghost Tour is a walking tour of some of the more haunted sites of Providence, RI. Tours are held from June to November, as you're led by lantern light through the East Side of the city, reliving scary stories, and other spooky delights.

There are no creatures jumping out at you here, just some delightful tales and insights into the creepier side of Providence.

For ticket information and directions, go to their website:
www.providenceghosttour.com

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Pawtucket Red Sox Hosts Halloween Night at McCoy Stadium

8/19/2013

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Elon Musk's Hyperloop Train

8/13/2013

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Source: i09 website
Elon Musk, the man behind the SpaceX program, is coming out about his Hyperloop. He's revealed plans for this super train, after teasing the public for months about a revolutionary technology that could send a train hurtling from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes. Here's how it would work.

First of all, to make this train cost-effective, it would likely only run between cities that were less than 1,000 miles apart, like San Francisco and Los Angeles, or New York and Boston. More ambitious plans call for a US coast-to-coast version.

In Musk’s vision, the Hyperloop would transport people via aluminum pods enclosed inside of steel tubes. He describes the design as looking like a shotgun with the tubes running side by side for most of the journey and closing the loop at either end. These tubes would be mounted on columns 50 to 100 yards apart, and the pods inside would travel up to 800 miles per hour. Some of this Musk has hinted at before; he now adds that pods could ferry cars as well as people. “You just drive on, and the pod departs,” Musk told Bloomberg Businessweek in his first interview about the Hyperloop . . .

Musk thinks the Hyperloop would avoid many of the land issues [of traditional trains] because it’s elevated. The tubes would, for the most part, follow I-5, the dreary but direct freeway between L.A. and San Francisco. Farmers would not have swaths of their land blocked by train tracks but could instead access their land between the columns. Musk figures the Hyperloop could be built for $6 billion with people-only pods, or $10 billion for the larger pods capable of holding people and cars. All together, his alternative would be four times as fast as California’s proposed train, at one-10th the cost. Tickets, Musk says, would be “much cheaper” than a plane ride.

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The 12th Doctor Has Been Chosen!

8/5/2013

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Peter Capaldi has been chosen to be the new star of Doctor Who, the British science fiction TV series which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The 55yr. old Scottish actor is best known as the political fixer 'Malcolm Tucker' in the sitcom 'The Thick of It'. Capaldi will make his appearance as The Doctor during the 2013 Dr. Who Christmas Special this December.

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CW's 'Arrow' To Introduce 'Flash' Series

8/2/2013

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Looks like 'The Flash' will be making a comeback to TV. The producers of CW's hit show 'Arrow' have announced that the Flash will be making appearances in episodes 8, 9, & 20 during season 2. Barry Allen's origin of the character will be featured, with the superhero getting his own spinoff series next year.

CBS had a live action Flash series in 1990, starring John Wesley Shipp, which ran for one season. You can buy the entire series as a dvd boxed set. Two of the more famous episodes featured Mark Hamill as The Trickster.

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Loot Crate: Geek Goodness Shipped To You Every Month

Sci Fi Journal Road Trip To The Pinball Wizard Arcade, Pelham, NH.

Explore The Haunted Side Of Providence

Pawtucket Red Sox Hosts Halloween Night at McCoy Stadium

Elon Musk's Hyperloop Train

The 12th Doctor Has Been Chosen!

CW's 'Arrow' To Introduce 'Flash' Series

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