Much love for the Red-headed Geek Goddess. . .

Do’Urden Pegg(1593)/Kaylee(1875): Kaylee has pulled almost 300 more votes, and is the only one in the region to pull 1000 votes in a round. Kaylee advances

Lobot Whedon(4064)/Day(4171): Day has already said that people should vote for Whedon, but she’s consistently pulled more votes in the first three rounds (she’s the top vote getter overall), and while the Whedonistas and Browncoats love Whedon, the internet loves Day. I think Day will win, but this one will be close (I’ll be voting for Day).

Bombadil Hodgeman(1489)/Gabe & Tycho(1730) The weakest region. Gabe & Tycho have pulled more votes than Hodgeman in every round, and will win the honor of losing to the Jor-El region winner

Jor-El [Wheaton(4159)/Hawking(3917) winner]/Wozniak(3628): Wheaton is 2nd overall in votes, Hawking is 4th and Woz is 5th. Whoever wins this will walk over Gabe & Tycho. I’ll pick Wozniak to emerge from the bloodbath (my upset prediction)

In the other round of 4 contest, I predict Day over Kaylee, and in the final, Day over Wozniak FTW.

Whedon and Coulton, “Still Alive” vs. “Firefly” – damn that’s a tough call. Gotta be Coulton though since Whedon once again has made the poor judgment to work with Fox.

Veronica and Felicia for the others – Lee and Wozniak are less geeks and more people who created things that became geeky.

I’m afraid I went with Joss on this one. I was a browncoat long before I knew of Joco’s existence. I am a loyal man.

Hawking, Joss, and Stan Lee are not as fully rounded in their geekitude – they excel in one or two areas of geekosity but their opponents are geekier than thou.

I can’t say the same thing about Wos though. He has geek cred out the wazoo and onto his segway. But Veronica has a Shaman in our guild so she’s alright by me.

It just occurred to me that I’ve seen the first three of my picks live, though, through no fault of his own, Stephen Hawking live appears much the same as a photograph of Stephen Hawking and an audio recording. Woz and JoCo, however, are considerably more awesome in real life.

Go see Hodgeman in Coraline! (The fact that this is a 3D film, you can keep the glasses and be a geek!) But the Woz will be the winner for sure!

Dollhouse SUCKS!

Picks this week:
Hawking
Wozniak
Coulton
Day

Wozniack for SGA!

That is just cruel. I’d say I’m not going to justify it with a response, except I did. But I’m still not happy about having to choose. Like, there was a serious moment of panic which was only contained by the fact that I’m at work. (Uh… which I should get back to now.)

Darn you, sadistic Fates. Darn you to heck. :p

He is still my dramatic master, but JoCo totally wins with geek ability.

Oh no — he’s losing. NOOOO!

Also, I can’t believe I cast the deciding vote (at the time) between Wil and Hawking. I didn’t even vote for the one I’d met!

joss and joco

joss
joco
joss
joco
firefly
ikea
dollhouse
creepy doll
buffy
re: brains

ahhhhhh it’s too hard *self delete*

steve wozniak defeats both ira glass AND carl sagan!

Man, I can’t even vote for *myself* in this one.

It makes me sad. There’s no universe in which Stan Lee is not a more accomplished, impressive driving force behind geekery for generations, while Felicia Day’s resume isn’t even a decade old. And if there WERE such a universe, Stan Lee would’ve created it.

Not that I’m discounting Felicia’s accomplishments, It’s just sad to see people whose 15 minutes of fame are peaking at the right moment overtaking those who have built serious careers on geekitude.

Oh well, at least Woz is beating out Belmont.

And JoCo vs. Whedon is still a sick choice.

2. Three rounds later, I STILL don’t really understand what the hype is with Mrs. Belmont. Sorry, I just don’t. Woz, though, IS the Woz. He gets my vote.

3. While I agree with Roman V about JoCo’s seeming inability or resistance to making political statements, and despite some doubts by a few others as to his ability to represent the average Joe or Sue Geek, I still support his candidacy for the post.

4. I am amazed by the fact that we made it to the Geek 16 and there’s a bracket that hits the “meh” category with me. Unbelievable. But, I’m going with Stan Lee. A fair composition of the pillars of geekery are* built off of his works.

*: Or, if you consider “a fair composition” to be the subject, as I think is the case, “is”.

Similarly, Wheaton over Hawking, because “normal” people know who the professor is and might even have read their books.

Day wins by definition.

I…know nothing useful about Wozniak or Belmont, and pretty much picked Belmont, figuring on the likely underdog.

other choices are easy. Wil, Woz, Felicia.

The interesting thing about this group is the emergence of a blog/twitter Good Young Boy network. Wheaton, Coulton, Belmont, and Day all follow each other on twitter.

Stan “the Man” has made undoubted contributions to geekdom, but really is not a geek himself, nor does he really understand geeks.

I think this is to his credit!

Wozniak vs. Belmont –
Normally would have gone with Woz, but lost points recently by signing on with Dancing With The Stars.

Coulton vs. Whedon –
In spite of my love for Firefly, I went with JoCo on this one. Just couldn’t help myself. Musicians tend to get the edge with me.

Lee vs. Day -
This was a toughy… but I went with Day. Plays the violin.

two – The Woz. Because there may be no geekier nickname out there.

three – I am sure I should blame Fox for most of it, but there are Joss Whedon shows (episodes anyway) that I haven’t liked. I’ve never been to a JoCo show that I didn’t like. 4 for 4 (with another in 2 weeks!) beats most for many.

four – When Stan Lee starts offering me free comics online, I’ll change my vote. This is my revenge for the Marvel credo – “No character ever really dies.” I hate that.

@PonderousMan – Let us not forget the articles of July 2008 when he obfuscatory stated FOX asked him to redo the pilot and possibly two additional episodes (http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Whedon+dollhouse+pilot+fox+firefly&scoring=n&hl=en&um=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=2008/07&as_hdate=2008/07&lnav=hist6). I believe he’s asked us to stick through the first 3 and it should be better from there. Hopefully he will find a way to communicate this through his various geek emissaries, many of whom have been in this Madness contest.

Oh well, brackets often do this sort of thing… Had to go with JoCo, though if I had caught the premiere of Dollhouse, I might have voted differently.

Of course, now I expect my Dr Horrible DVD will get mangled in the mail or something… Karma is a bitch, as the saying goes.

2) Don’t really know them that well, but I like my iMac. Steve.

3) Still annoyed that Bill Nye lost, but voting for JoCo.

4) Don’t particularly care about either of them, but I REALLY didn’t like “The Guild.” Goin’ with Stan Lee.

JoCo and Joss are formidable opponents, but I had to go with JoCo. In the end, cyborgs and monkeys beat out vampires and super-villains.

2) Veronica – not because I’m conforming or anything, I think she’s more qualified.

3) Coulton – Again, not conforming, nor did he get my “automatic vote” – I considered the choices, and Coulton won. It may be tricky though, as he doesn’t like to make political statements….

4) Stan Lee for the same reasons I mentioned previously – his foreign policy credentials. Remember that while our own government was pursuing appeasement of the Nazis, Lee and his comic bookies recognized the danger and had their top heroes beating the snot out of Nazis, and sometimes even zombie Nazis.