Just for fun, go read Wiki on Dr Robert C Baker.
The reason I learned about him today, much less of his existence was courtesy of
Paul & Storm
Food science is important. And McDonalds is not the originator of the chicken nugget…
The duo is known for their spoofs in the SciFi fan world, skewering George RR has lead to a couple hilarious songs (one on on YouTube and the other here which is a take off on American Pie. Hey, all of you are old enough to remember singing Don Mclean’s
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die
Of course, if you have absolutely no clue about Game of Thrones, you probably won’t get most of the references..
Other than picking up and wearing my new hat (picture tomorrow) I was able to get to a panel, a literary beer and otherwise wander around since it turned out that most people had picked up their badges yesterday (or more likely are waiting for the weekend).
I didn’t spend much time with the camera but saw this
More displayed costumes
and went to give
and the wandering Tardis
a bit of a hand calling the elevator since it doesn’t exactly have a free hand, now does it?
