Aaron Williams's Blog

Hello all. Happy Holidays to all of you. I know the sites haven’t been updated as often as they should be. The various sites are running on some older tech, and I am just finally getting around to updating things on the backend. As always, to stay up with the latest with Aaron you can […]

It’s that time of year again, when the Mystery Science Theater 3000 YouTube channel gives us their annual Turkey Day cavalcade of bad movie riffing! And if, when you see this, it’s no longer Thanksgiving but you’d still like to watch more MST3K, they’ve set up a site called Gizmoplex along with their 24/7 Twitch […]

I was recently clearing out an old cell phone when I found an interesting set of pictures of a computer keyboard. Riveting stuff, right? These were taken in 2015 with whatever primitive cell phone technology was available to me, and it was through a windshield with reflections in it, so the quality isn’t great. You […]

Just in from an alternate universe, here’s Star Trek: Voyager given the Filmation treatment: In a similar cartoon-nostalgia vein (though with less animation) from one “Solid JJ,” we have… His 1960’s-style superhero cartoon voices are just spot on. His other videos are here.

Much like how nanotech is a catch-all for a lot of sci-fi stories these days, higher dimensions are often used in a similar fashion both for science fiction as well as fantasy. A being that can access one more dimension than another can appear to do “magic” by mucking about with bits of the universe […]

Fans of alternate history and very bad accents rejoice, for I have started a podcast called Vorpal History! It’s over on The Fantasy Network, which is home to loads of other great productions. They interviewed me about the project, and you can read all about it over here! It’s letting me stretch that ol’ worldbuilding […]

In-jokes in movies and TV are great fun to look out for, most notably the Wilhelm Scream. I recently found an old one that’s been in several productions I’ve nerdily consumed, but I only just now had it pointed out to me: The Oscillation Overthruster from the movie, Buckaroo Banzai. Just in case anyone hasn’t […]

It’s been a while, and what better time to rise from a blogging coma than (just after) Halloween? In addition to everything else I’m up to, the past week was taken up by combining two chocolate milk mix containers, two old Tupperware bowls, a computer fan, and a lot of ribbon into a jetpack for […]

Every few years, I try to get out to see fireworks. Not the ones being detonated, but those still in their plastic wrappers, often featuring art that owes its existence to an image search and a heavy dollop of Photoshop. I’m not calling them out to have their products recalled or anything, as fireworks are […]

A sequel to the pretty-good-to-decent game The Outer Worlds is in the works, and it has a very self-aware trailer: I think they took every complaint that every E3 streamer has had about trailers, ever, and copy-pasted it into their script. It fits with the game’s ethos regarding corporations, so that fits. I got to […]