My Big Geek Bucket List…

I’ve made lists before, but this one is celebrating my inner geekness. Many involve great science fiction, others are just for fun, while some would be a wonderful way to learn a little about someone and their view of the world.

Some are a personal wishes, perhaps a little esoteric, others refer to movies that might be a little off the mainstream, but here we go.

1. Have George put Star Wars back to the way it was. We all saw Han shoot first.
2. Walk away while an explosion goes off in the background in slow motion
3. Have a glass of rum with Captain Jack Sparrow
4. Fight zombies with a yell of “Yeah-boy”
5. Tell Captain Picard to “Make it so…”
6. Have Jar Jar Binks meet with a very messy end so we can have no doubt he’s gone
7. Drive the cool Batmobile from Batman Begins
8. Understand Vogon poetry
9. Get a real cone of silence
10. Take the Tardis out for a spin
11. Dinner with Terry Pratchett
12. Find that the Serenity 2 movie is going to happen
13. Walk into a casino wearing a tux and order a Martini “shaken, not stirred”
14. Enjoy slow barbequed Ewok, St Louis style.
15. Have a sonic screwdriver in the tool box
16. Sit and listen to Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick discuss robotics, replicants and the four laws.
17. Re-read the entire Foundation series in order
18. Look good in an Indiana Jones fedora and learn to crack a whip
19. Complete all levels of Angry Birds with three-stars
20. Visit the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley
21. Shoot an original (Buster Crabb) Flash Gordon blaster
22. Burning man
23. Have a “Law” named after me
24. SXSW Interactive
25. Have the Swedish chef cook dinner
26. Car chase through the hills of San Francisco Bullit style
27. Leia, gold bikini and…
28. Listen to the history of the universe as told by R. Daneel Olivaw
29. Work out what the hell was going on in Lost
30. Don powered armour and into the drop-capsule
31. Learn to wield a lightsaber from Yoda
32. The ultimate dinner party: Josh Whedon, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Fry, Stan Lee and finally Gene Roddenberry
33. Visit Westworld and take on Yul Brynner, after all the bugs have been worked out
34. Beat the Kobayashi Maru
35. Partner Logan 7 for a day
36. Tour the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough with Nevil Shute
37. Number-5 in the red dress
38. Sit in a cool chair, wearing a collarless shirt and monocle, while stroking a white cat and utter the classic line “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die”
39. An afternoon on the Holodeck
40. “Beam me up Scotty”
41. Have a Monolith in the front garden
42. Fly through the air firing two guns Hot Fuzz style
43. Watch a live game of Rollerball (“Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan…”)
44. Road trip with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
45. Have HAL ask me “What are you doing Dave”
46. Hear an Avro Vulcan take off on full reheat one more
47. Watch the Killer rabbit take on the Black knight
48. Go hiking with Bill Bryson
49. Get shot out of a launch tube from Galactica
50. Fit a shock collar to George Lucas that goes off everytime he tries to re-edit one of his movies

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