Category Archives: Geek

Food Phrases

  • Egg on your face
  • Tossing your cookies
  • Have your cake and eat it too
  • Let them eat cake!
  • The cake is a lie
  • Bring home the bacon
  • Don’t cry over spilled milk
  • Don’t spill the beans
  • Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
  • Easy as pie
  • Pie in the sky
  • Time to make the donuts
  • Butter him up
  • Smooth as butter
  • When life gives you lemons…
  • How corny
  • Two peas in a pod
  • In a pickle
  • Salt of the earth

Trivia Events I’m Running In the First Quarter of This Year

  • January 21 – Hampton Youth Committee Trivia
  • January 21/DIY – FRIENDS trivia by Morrison Department of Fun
  • January 25 – Collins Aerospace corporate team building event
  • February 4/DIY – Youth Hope Trivia
  • February 17 – Davenport Central Feeder Softball Teams Trivia Night
  • February 25 – Tacos & Trivia for Haiti
  • March 24 – Lyons Business & Professional Association
  • March 18 or Aprill 22 – Royal Family Kids Camp

Trivia Categories I have Written (In Recognition of the Upcoming LBPA Trivia Night on March 11)

  • Cool Catchphrases
  • Ripped From the Headlines
  • Hooked on NATO Phonics
  • Skylines
  • Dead or Alive
  • Proverbs or Benjamin Franklin
  • Pokemon or Pharmaceutical
  • What’s My Name
  • Streaming Service & Chill
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • Boy Bands & Girl Groups
  • Animal Instinct
  • Once Upon a Time
  • Start Your Engines
  • Where in the World
  • Casting Call
  • Before They Were Famous
  • Color Code
  • Back in the Day
  • Team Spirit
  • 90s Reboots
  • Sports of all Sorts
  • Midwest Alma Matters
  • In Other Words
  • Fire & Ice
  • Out of this World
  • Board Games
  • Symbolism
  • A River Runs Through It
  • “Olog”ies
  • Technology in the 2000s
  • TV Sets
  • Number Ones
  • Island Living
  • Feasting on Food
  • Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader
  • Fictional Friends
  • First Lines
  • Science Lab
  • Abbreviations & Acronyms
  • America the Beautiful
  • Rhyme Time
  • There’s An App For That
  • Sunday School 201
  • Summer Olympics
  • Time Lines

Surprising Things I’ve Accomplished This Year (specifically given that it’s been a corona-year)

  • Checked two new states (North Carolina, Mississippi) off my list
  • Missions trip to Haiti
    • Three “airports” in one day
    • Landing & taking off on a dirt runway
    • Attending/walking in a Haitian funeral processional
    • Ate goat for the first time
  • Iguanas in the wild (in Miami… they chased me away from my lunch)
  • Finished unpacking all boxes from moving end of 2019
  • Started packing up to move again
  • Attended nephew’s high school graduation
  • Vacation to San Diego
    • Lodging at the fabulous beachfront Tower23
    • Riding bicycles to Mission Beach
  • Completed “Visual Communications” course through Sophia Learning
  • Put more than 10,000 miles on my car
  • Ran three trivia nights before the world shut down
  • Read 29 books
  • Successfully began intermittent fasting (lost 8 pounds and dropped my A1C from 6.1 to 5.4!)
  • Watched multiple full series on Hulu and Amazon Prime
  • Achieved level 40 and then level 41 on Pokemon Go
  • Applied for 66 jobs
  • Got hired for exciting new position with city of Clinton, Iowa!
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Best Lines From the Classic Movie Independence Day (with Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum)

  • “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive!
  • Forget the fat lady. You’re obsessed with the fat lady.
  • Well he – uh – just did.
  • I voted for the other guy.
  • You want to see my clearance? Maybe I’ll just leave this here with you.
  • We’re going to have to work on our communication.
  • The L.A.P.D. is asking Los Angelenos not to fire their guns at the visitor spacecraft. You may inadvertently trigger an interstellar war.
  • It’s the White House, for crying out loud. You can’t just go up and ring the doorbell.

 

Characters in the new murder mystery dinner party I’ve written

  • Sir Yale Kristof Oratorio – Winner of 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award~~Hollywood Producer and Director Sir Yale Kristof Oratorio is one of the most feared and revered persons in the Industry. He is known for his obsessive commitment to excellence and tyrannical control of the minutest details not just in his movies but on the entire film set. Rumor says he once ordered a caterer to be executed for failing to provide enough sesame seeds on his bagel. Nobody actually killed the guy, but he never catered in Hollywood again. His latest movie, Try & Die 5: Keep on Trying, hit number one the first weekend it was released and stayed there for three weeks, pushing his lifetime earnings well over a billion dollars and already garnering Oscar buzz. Sir Yale has hinted that the movie he currently has in production will be the pinnacle of his success and his farewell gift to the industry before he retires.
  • Alison Andretti – Top female director and producer in the U.S., Alison is known for being fast talking, hard working, tough as nails, but with a soft heart. Her most recent film, To Bridge The Space Between Us, was the movie that knocked Try & Die 5 out of the top spot. Alison is quickly making her way to the top of a very male dominated industry and not everyone likes that. But she has a quick smile and has always said that her motto is “Kill them with kindness”.
  • Craig Daniels – The star of the Try & Die movie franchise, Craig Daniels is everything a movie super spy should be. He’s suave, cultured, and can kill with more than just his looks. Although he had some success in years past, it was his breakout performance in the first Try & Die that garnered him a People’s Choice Award, which was followed up by an Oscar for Try & Die 2, Try A Little Harder, and nominations for each film since.
  • Dexter Mascherada – This self-made studio mogul learned Hollywood from the ground up and knows every facet of the industry, plus he is good to the people who work for him. This has made him one of the most popular directors in Hollywood over the last decade. Known for the lavish spreads he insists upon for his cast and crew, and extravagant gifts for his movie stars, Dexter is the epitome of the hard working, down to earth guy who happens to be a millionaire.
  • Ephraim Joaquin – Although he was raised in Southern California, Ephraim prefers to play up his international heritage to demonstrate how worldly, sophisticated, and intelligent he is. His striking good looks carry most of his movies, as the large majority of them are done in Hebrew or Yiddish with English subtitles, something he has the luxury of doing thanks to his earnings and Oscar for his first English speaking role in The Silence Speaks a Thousand Words.
  • Fiona Plie – From Broadway to Hollywood, Fiona has danced her way into the hearts of movie viewers everywhere. Her lithe and nimble steps and classic beauty belie the steely will that has forged her career. With a body as strong and flexible as her mind, Fiona is known for doing all of her own stunts, even going as far as learning martial arts to star in Sir Yale’s 2010 action flick Backlash Baby.
  • Gracie Encanta – Considered by many to be a modern day Marilyn, Gracie has long been type-cast as the ditzy bombshell, a role which she doesn’t seem to mind. She’s beautiful, flirtatious, and not above using her charm to get the things she wants. Her string of ex-personal assistants tell a different story though, of a dark fury hidden behind her stunning looks. And Sir Yale once hinted that he fired her from his movie Crazy Daizey when she proved too crazy for his standards.
  • Heather Sunshine – Heather inherited her fortune when both hippy-minded parents died in a tragic tuba accident on the set of Band of Misfits, one of Sir Yale’s first directorial attempts. Although he never claimed responsibility, the director made sure that Heather would never need to worry about money after that. Since then Heather has found a permanent place in Hollywood’s society where she considers herself “an influencer with a conscious”.
  • Ison Yu – Celebrity blogger and professional gossip Ison Yu makes his living by turning up the secrets stars don’t want revealed. Some celebrities hate him for this, but enough of them try to ingratiate themselves to him that Ison is able to keep tabs on much of the Hollywood scene. He often shows up at celebrity events, movie sets, and even private gatherings without an invitation, knowing that most people won’t question him.
  • Jennifer Goodhouse – She’s everyone’s favorite girl next door. An actress from childhood, Jen has grown up filming Sir Yale’s action comedy movie franchise Dandy Candy. The latest (and rumored to be last) installment, Dandy Candy 8: Gumballs of Steel, did poorly in the theater but Jennifer didn’t let it get her down. She went on to star as Craig Daniels’ love interest in Try & Die 4: Try, Try Again which got her an Oscar nomination and a star on the Walk of Fame.
  • Steven Sebold – Reality TV host Steven Sebold has spent the last year trying to make the leap onto the Silver Screen but has so far only landed small parts, and all of them thanks to his family connection to Sir Yale. His youthful good looks and boyish charm make it difficult for fans to take him seriously in roles such as “Rich Cousin #1” in Try & Die 3: Try As I Might. However, rumor is that Steven is up for a part in Alison Andretti’s upcoming film Softly Rings the Workman’s Hammer.
  • Tony Zamboni – Hollywood producer Tony Zamboni is brusque, fast talking, and Italian to the core. His quirky superstitions, (for example, he insists on eating spaghetti with gravy and wearing checkered socks to bed before every opening night,) keep the general public thinking of him as fun-loving. But those who work closely with him will tell you that Tony is ruthless and calculating, with a heart as cold as ice.
  • Valentina Vergucci – Fashion designer to the stars, Valentina has dressed all the hottest celebrities. She is known for her use of flamboyant colors and unusual fabrics, such as the orange burlap dress that Heather Sunshine wore to the Golden Globes last year. Valentina got her start designing costumes and hit gold when she won a design Oscar for Sir Yale’s 1930s period piece Canary College. For good or bad, her crazy looks for the red carpet are here to stay.