Adam Savage and obsessions

[scarlettina]

I've been a casual fan of the TV show Mythbusters for quite a while. That changed a bit when I attended W00tstock last year and saw Adam Savage, the red-headed chatterbox of the Mythbusters team, live, and discovered that not only was he kinda hot, but that he's exactly the kind of brilliant, funny genius I find attractive (so many of which type I'm proud and pleased to call my friends). This morning, on a conference call for work, one of the women I work with mentioned that Savage had done a TED talk.

Now, if you don't already know about the TED Talks, then hie thee hence to www.ted.com and start perusing their archives. The TED talks are 15-minute slideshow lectures by the truly awesome. Savage's talk is about obsession, and I suspect almost all of my friends (especially my movie-loving friends, markbourne, oldmangrumpus, and ironymaiden) will appreciate it. Go. Watch. Enjoy.

Comments

[markbourne.livejournal.com]

Yes! The Falcon! I got mine!

[willowgreen.livejournal.com]

President Obama is going to be on tonight's episode of Mythbusters!!! We won't be missing that one.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

oldmangrumpus is having a watching party tonight--with latkes! I'm so there.

[botgrrrl.livejournal.com]

I love Mythbusters as well.

Since I don't have cable, I have the season pass through iTunes. The episode will be available for download a little later this evening.

I'm very excited.

[bedii.livejournal.com]

You want to learn about obsession: go to the website that Savage mentions he visits for people building prop replicas. The messages about duplicating The Black Bird (which he contributed to) take up more screens than any of the rest. (I thought the attempts to build a Time Agent's Vortex Generator were long, but no...) Considering the history of the bird as outlined by Gutman, this pleases me more than you could ever believe--life imitating art.

[dreamline.livejournal.com]

Adam Savage is my secret boyfriend (so secret that even he doesn't know it yet).