The Golden Spoke

Well nerds, welcome to the weekly geekly! When I thought about launching this blog I thought, “What better time to start a geek blog than the week after Halloween?” Halloween is like geek Christmas. It’s a great time to invent, take your cosplay out into the real world and make fun of every ass hat in an angry birds costume. What’s not to love?
This year, geeks turned on their thinking caps to figure out new ways to carve the pumpkin (more laser-y than reinventing the wheel). They also figured out how to make last minute costumes even nerdier (making this blog post untimely as all hell). One Deliverance-esque geek turned the trunk of his car into a mobile haunt. And a German uber-nerd made made the iPad even more magical. Every year just gets better and better.
Hit the jump to check out this weeks geeky Halloween finds!
Halloween Magic
Simon Pierro is precious. There’s no way around it. He’s like Houdini and Hello Kitty wrapped up in one. Plus, he’s a tech magician… swoon. He starts out by saying, “My German accent might already scare you to hell,” in a German accent (!) and then goes on to do a super presh Halloween magic act with an iPad 2.

This video was cute, but his other videos were hilarious and amazing. He does a youtube question and answer video where he answers the question that’s on everyone’s mind… Can you have sex with that iPad?
He responds, “Ever since the stone age, men have been asking themselves three basic questions: Can it kill me? Can I eat it? Can I have sex with it?”  Apparently, it’s against Apple store policy, but he says it’s  possible. I guess anything is possible when you’re an iPad magician. Except maybe having sex with an actual woman.
Quick and Geeky Costume Ideas
Here’s an awesome list of super nerdy costume ideas from The Science & Entertainment Exchange blog. They range from Pavlov’s Dog to Shroedinger’s Cat. Unfortunately, Halloween has already passed us by. At any rate, give the list a once over. That way you’ll have some easy and intelligent costume ideas for your next masquerade orgy (think Eyes Wide Shut with a science twist). Kidding. You may have a hard time getting laid dressed as climate change. Especially if you use a pick up line  that involves the phrase, “I’m saving the planet. Look, I only use recycled condoms.” Ewwwwwwwww. I just grossed myself out.
Laser Pumpkin
[via Gizmodo]
This dude is a pumpkin carving cheater, but apparently he’s also a Buddhist, so he’ll pay for it in Karma dollars. I heard it smelled really bad, so maybe that’s enough Karma for finding a cool and awesome looking shortcut for carving a pumpkin.  Plus, it’s a good way to get rid of one annoying aspect of the pumpkin carving equation… children.
“Daddy! I want to carve the pumpkin!”
“Are you crazy?! This is a laser! Get out of my man cave, bitch!”
That’s what I call good parenting.
Monster Trunk
This is how a guy who lives out in the boondocks gets his shits and giggles. Whatever makes you happy, man.

After watching it for the fourth time, I realize that it’s pretty bad ass and nothing to poke fun of. I wonder what would happen if you went to Arizona and put a sombrero on the monster. You’d probably be surrounded by FBI agents before you could say, “It’s a switch powered linear actuator!”