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[dc]T[/dc]oday on the Friday Six: Anything 8-bit is automatically cute, even flowers. Rick Moranis is still around, thankfully. I’m another year older–wiser is another question. I’m crazy about a certain kind of pencil sharpener. What’s the deal with waffles? And there’s news of an upcoming Superman vs. Batman movie.

[ ] Geek Thing of the Week: an 8-Bit Flower Bouquet!

Maybe I could convince Stephanie to carrying this down the aisle at our wedding instead of real flowers? It is on sale now too, $9.99 instead of $14.99. Cute, cheap, and made of pixels.

[ ] This Nerdist Podcast episode with Rick Moranis is required listening. Hear how Rick Moranis spent the last few years, and stories about starting out as a DJ and his time with SCTV. Also: Rick Moranis has a new(!) album out, My Mother’s Brisket & Other Love Songs. (CD available too)

 [ ] As I mentioned in the notes for Monday’s comic (Guilt Trip Ghost in Space), I’m another year older. I celebrated with Stephanie over a dinner of bibimbap and a trip to Pinball Pete’s Arcade in East Lansing. The highpoint of the evening was playing the Class of ’81 Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga arcade machine, while Van Halen’s Everybody Wants Some!! blasted overhead on the radio.

You, of course, remember Everybody Wants Some!! from this famous scene in Better Off Dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgnhkxxYZv8
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Sadly, my birthday was lacking in rock and/or rolling anthropomorphic hamburgers. Maybe next year.

[ ] You guys, I’m pretty crazy about this manual pencil sharpener: a KUM wedge.

It ain’t anything fancy, but it does the trick. I picked mine up at Grand Art Supply in downtown Lansing (where I try to buy most of my art supplies). Tired of my cheapo plastic sharpener, I decided to get something better. After (too) much time spent researching manual pencil sharpeners, this article convinced me to get the KUM bronze wedge. Being used to my old, dull, plastic sharpener, the KUM wedge blew me away with its quality and performance. It is simple, sturdy, and affordable (I think I paid maybe $3). Pick one up, it makes for a great ‘on the go’ sharpener.

[ ] Do you think waffles ever take offense to being associated with indecisiveness? I mean, assuming they could talk. Or had feelings. Or–

[ ] The big movie/comic book news last weekend was the Superman and Batmanteam-up or versus film in the near future. It will star the current Superman, Henry Cavill, and a yet unnamed Batman. I still haven’t seen Zack Snyder‘s Man of Steel, but he will be directing this next film too. This could be…interesting.

If it ends up happening at all. I’ll believe it when I see the first teaser trailer.

Product links in this post: 8-Bit Flower Bouquet, My Mother’s Brisket & Other Love Songs, NAMCO Ms. Pac-Man / Galaga Class of 1981 Arcade Gaming Cabinet, Everybody Wants Some!!(MP3), Better Off Dead, KUM wedge manual pencil sharpener

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