Friday, February 27, 2009

Geek: Steampunk



If you get laid off in the next few months, pick up this hobby. All you need is some scrap copper pipe, a soldering iron, a few gauges and some Lederhosen. Now, go get your Steampunk on.

The term (steampunk) denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

It's clear I wasted my youth.