Classic Nerd

The desert dust has barely settled from Coachella's first weekend, and my feet are still blistering from three days of traversing the Empire Polo Club grounds. The idea of spending three days in the desert sun normally sounds like my personal nightmare, but this year's lineup was simply too good to pass up. And truly, for anyone who remembers a time before TikTok existed, Coachella 2025 delivered in ways I didn't expect.

There’s no doubt that candy from the ‘80s just hit different. Could it be that it was due to way lower health standards? Maybe… OK, probably, but what the hell did kids care about health? That’s the time when you’re supposed to go nuts and eat a gooey mash of chemicals, dyes, and sugar. That’s what we did, and we turned out alright. It’s a sad sight strolling through candy aisles today, with hardly anything but the old guard of candy bars still limping on.

Grandma's getting hammered, that weird uncle is about to start going off about his new importing/exporting business, and somewhere a child screams — that's right, it's the holidays! At a certain point, someone just needs to put something on the screen to shut everyone else up — and folks probably could use a laugh. These Christmas comedies may not always have the most holiday spirit or dig deep into the true meaning of the season, but they will make you laugh out loud.

Ahh, remember celebrating the winter holidays in the ‘90s? Stores would actually close (without posting about it on social media), a pile of holiday movies from Blockbuster warmed up by the fire, and we tried to kill each other over Elmo toys. Those were the days. While the ‘90s were a goldmine of cinema in general, it turns out there actually aren’t that many great holiday movies from the decade.

Back in the '90s, we all just assumed everything after the year 2000 would be either a sci-fi paradise or a hellscape. There wasn’t really anything in between, but the common thread was that technology was going to go nuts with robots, flying cars, and neon lights everywhere. It was going to be dope. But wait, where’s my robot slave and vacation house on Mars?

By Nicholas Yanes A few months ago, the Quantum Leap revival was renewed for a second season. With fans waiting for the continuation of the reboot to return, it’s a perfect time to look at the original series — focusing on its top five episodes. For those new to this franchise, the original Quantum Leap premiered on March 26, 1989, and ran until May 5, 1993.

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There are those of us that simply chuckle every time someone gushes about how impressive ChatGPT is. Why? Because long before OpenAI was ever a thing, there was a far superior artificial intelligence: KITT. The Knight Industries Two Thousand, frankly, makes ChatGPT look like a toddler whose only word is mispronouncing “spaghetti.” A fully autonomous, conscious AI that helped Michael Knight take out the baddies (yes, including Knight’s evil twin, Garthe).

When it comes to movies, I’ve always been plagued with FOMO. I remember being in awe at the sheer plethora of choices as I perused the video rental store. And the stakes were high — you could only pick one, and you had to hand over actual cash before they’d let you take it home for one precious night. As you might imagine, today’s options for watching movies are really triggering for me. How the hell am I supposed to decide?