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Tiarra, Rob and Dan investigate why the TARDIS isn't reflected in the astronaut's helmet. Spoilers!

Searching for something more meaningful out of geek-related websites, Geek Life editor Tiarra Wantz assembled a team of groovy people from all around the world to discuss and share their geek culture experiences. What sort of adventures will this friendly neighborhood geek and her amazing friends share? Only time will tell!

Tiarra Wantz is a comic book and sci-fi geek girl who enjoys reading, playing video games, creating typography art, and comparing everything to “that one episode of TNG where…” She is the Director of Marketing & Public Relations for a Las Vegas-based non-profit organization; as well, she is a published writer (of the journalistic variety). Tiarra lives in Las Vegas with the love of her life, Dan, where they live together with two cuddly kittens named Panda Face and Ser Pounce-a-lot and a precocious pup named Pippin.

Tiarra can be found here, there, and everywhere, as anything that is not a Star Trek reference most certainly is a reference to the Beatles.

Tiarra Wantz Editor-in-Chief

Dan Joslyn grew up in Ohio but now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he works as an office monkey in a law firm. He enjoys reviewing movies and television for the site, as well as over-analyzing such things. Prior to joining Geek Life, he hosted a radio show called “In the Garage: Cleveland’s Geek Headquarters.” He is one of those Joss Whedon fanatics that annoy you so much. He once joined MENSA in an unsuccessful attempt to meet women. His favorite song of all time is “El Scorcho” by Weezer. He may be the Chosen One… but he probably isn’t.

Dan can be found on Twitter as @ferociouswalrus.

Daniel Joslyn Lead Staff Writer/Assistant Editor

Born in Missouri, Jim lived there with his family only long enough to realize the convenience of city life. Soon after his folks, tiring of the ease with which they could obtain the necessities of modern existence, moved him from rural small town, to border town, vainly seeking further and further isolation. After a short stint on the Texas/Mexico border, his family decided that they must move further south.

Realizing that while familiar with Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and French his parents spoke little to no Spanish, and so they settled on moving to the Florida Keys. It is there that our benighted correspondent spent his formative years, and it is there he lives to this day. A consummate gamer geek he whiles away his life planning dramatic stories and plots for people and places that do not exist, and besting his compatriots at games of strategy. He can be found on Twitter as @StygianJim.

Stygian Jim Columnist

Lee is a sometime artist/writer now living in the, ehm, “tranquil” suburbs of Baltimore, MD (formerly of Savannah, GA, and Philadelphia, PA).

You can find Lee on Twitter as @late_totheparty and follow the breadcrumbs to her other internet haunts, or check out her illustration portfolio at http://www.lelyillustrator.com.

Lee Ely Contributing Writer

Mike Breedlove, AKA Stirlock, is Geek Life’s resident blind gamer from California. While he enjoys most types of games out there, arcade style beat ‘em ups and RPGs are his personal favorite genres. It is his firm belief that Snatcher is the best game ever made, and he still hopes, (even if in vain,) that whenever Hedeo Kojima announces a new game, it will be related to Snatcher. He’s a fan of Nintendo’s Mother series, and thinks it is a crime against humanity that an official translation was never made to Mother 3. He is also a fan of Star Wars, and Star Trek to a slightly lesser degree (sorry Tiarra! :d )

Mike can be found on Twitter as @Stirlock. You can also feel free to ask him anything related to his blindness, he’s heard it all, so don’t worry about offending.

Mike Breedlove Contributing Writer

Jon can remember the location of every heart container in the original Legend of Zelda. Okay, maybe not every heart container, but most of them. A native of Northern California, he grew up with NES, a Windows 3.1 computer, and The Disney Afternoon. Aside from his obvious love of video games, Jon geeks out over music, movies, and “gadgets and gizmos aplenty” (to borrow a phrase from The Little Mermaid). If Jon were sorted into a house at Hogwarts, the Sorting Hat would consider Ravenclaw, but eventually place him in Hufflepuff. He currently works at an elementary school, where he occasionally has nerdy conversations with kids about Marvel superheroes and Star Wars.

Jon can be found on Twitter as @Slagkick and splits his World of Warcraft time between Blade’s Edge and Proudmoore.

Jon Corker Staff Writer

Rob Kidman is an aspiring writer, have-a-go designer, avid tea drinker and geek from birth. Oh, and he’s British. What he doesn’t know about Doctor Who, isn’t worth knowing. Sends text messages in full, perfect grammar, no matter if it costs an extra 10p, as he believes txtspk to be an affront to the Queens’ English. Partial to cheese and pickle, random gherkins, and a fan of the miniature sombrero.

Rob can also be found on Twitter as @KidmanProject.

Robert Kidman Senior Editor

Jamie DeVriend is a multi-format geek. She loves video games new and old, pinball, Marvel comics, Asian Ball-Jointed Dolls, obscure things, Doctor Who, Supernatural, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. An Alabama native, she now lives with her equally geeky husband and sizeable cat, and goes to college while doing occasional freelance design work.

Jamie is also one of the hosts of the podcast Orange Lounge Radio and can be found on Twitter as @DarkSakura.

Jamie DeVriend Columnist

Jason is an amateur writer, amateur comedian and amateur author from the down-under land of convicts, Australia. He hopes one day he will be paid for at least one of those things so he can rub out the amateur and earn money for more Apple products. When he’s not not being paid for doing what he loves, Jason is a father of three young kids and supports his geek qualifications by schooling newbs about why Facebook is so 2007 at every opportunity. Jason discovered coffee at 30 so he thinks he is a grown up now. If he could marry his iPhone he would.

Jason can be found on Twitter as @therealJaso32 or on his F1 Racing blog, Crack F1.

Jason Brennan Contributing Writer

Cape Rust is an international man of thespionage. Born and raised in San Antonio Texas, he joined the U.S. Army where he served 12 years six as a Military Policeman and six as an all source Military Intelligence Analyst (Yes he went from being a plain moron to an oxymoron! (And no, you can’t spell mistake without MI). Being a fat, bald version of James Bond, his geek interests are wide (like his belly) and varied. His collection of gadgets (electronic and travel related) are only rivaled by the amount of pockets found on most items of clothing he wears. Other geek interests include RPGs, PC gaming, enormous Corgis, and Community theater. He currently is on the work release program in Leavenworth, Kansas where he lives with his partner in crime and wife (Code name “The Hottness”) and his two amazing Teenaged daughters (Codenames: Poncho Panda and Guitar Geek). Their lair is guarded by two cats of questionable sexual orientation and the largest Corgi ever.

Cape can found on Twitter as @CapeRust.

Cape Rust Staff Writer

Susan is a 47 year old self-proclaimed geek with a talent for writing. She has a myriad of interests which include cooking, computer games, science, space and technology, human and civil rights, burrowing owls and iguanas. She lives in West Palm Beach, Florida with Miss Nala, her 14 year old kitty who has been known to tweet on occasion.

Susan can be found on Twitter as @Skeeter451.

Susan Carr Columnist

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