We went to see Megamind this opening weekend. While many of the themes seem previously done, it has several plot twists that made it very enjoyable. However, while the story is very different from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog, I could not stop thinking about the similarities between the roles of the characters.

Evil Genius – Dr. Horrible vs. Megamind

Handsome Strong Hero – Captain Hammer vs. Metroman

Love Interest – Penny vs. Roxanne

Sidekick – Moist vs. Minion

Common Themes

- Good vs. Evil
- “With great power comes great responsibility”
- Effective use of brain and technology are equivalent to superpowers (yay, science!)
- Geeks
- Rayguns!

For Halloween, I was a part of a group dressed as characters from Scott Pilgrim vs the World.

I was Roxy, Ramona ex. The rest of the cast included: @hober, @kirinqueen, @lisinsd, @mokolabs, @danifesto, @krysaia, @jessimuhka, and some others I don’t have twitter handles for.

Some action shots:

Rest of the pictures.

As a self-proclaimed “science evangelist”, my favorite XKCD of all time is this one:

One day a few months ago, I suddenly decided I needed to get the “Stand back, I’m going to try science” shirt, but instead found that my favorite comic has been turned into a shirt! After getting it, I noticed that most of the shirts had models posing with the shirts, but not for this one because it was so new. Hence it was decided that I should be that model! I purchased a cheap Beanie Baby shark off eBay, a balloon, and borrowed some stuff from lab… and here they are:

Check out the rest here!