Alec Worley

Oct 25, 2024 | alecworley.substack.com | Alec Worley

There can surely be no rational defence of Terry Marcel’s ramshackle British sword and sorcery movie Hawk the Slayer (1980). By no sane definition can it be considered great cinema. It falters too often, its ambitions too clearly out of range of its meagre budget. Why then is it so greatly loved? Why are its devotees happy to accept the wayward acting, the threadbare production values, the Silly String special effects, and invest so deeply in its misty medieval world?

Sep 20, 2024 | geekeratimedia.substack.com | Christian Lindke |Alec Worley |J.Q. Graziano |Jim Zub

I was listening to a Boise radio station the other day and they had a segment on the importance of local broadcast media and how it builds community. The conversation featured an interview with board members of The History of Idaho Broadcasting Foundation and these board members talked about how important Marty Holtman was to the Boise area. Marty Holtman was a longtime radio host and legendary television weatherman who died earlier this year.

Aug 10, 2024 | geekeratimedia.substack.com | Christian Lindke |David Poland |Alec Worley |Wyrd Science

A while back I talked about the and how one of the things I love about discoveries like this is that they demonstrate how the infinite and the finite intersect in nature. In the case of the Einstein tile, researchers discovered a shape that can be laid out (aka tiled) on a plane without ever having the pattern of shapes repeat. That’s amazing right? What’s also amazing is that the intersections of these shapes create hexagons which do repeat.