montreal geek Archives - 9to5 (dot cc)

Posts Tagged montreal geek

197 results.

9ES 161: We Should Start An Ultramarathon

by keith on July 5, 2018 at 7:15 am

I mean it, look up the Barkley Marathon. Honestly. The 9to5 (dot cc) ultramarathon will become the most intense, grueling 100+ mile marathon of all time. Instead of a starter pistol the race will start when Scott fails to say “fuzzy bunny” after putting as many marshmallows in his mouth. Jono sat this one out because he is in Canada’s martimes. We will be following up in episode 162 with the question that I’m sure is on all of your minds: How many times did he sing “Barrett’s Privateers” either to himself or publicly while he was there? My guess is more than 12.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

The bed music during our advertising is an old loop by Dan of Steel!

The bed music while we explain what the episode is about is Son of a Bit “Chased by a Running Chupacabra” used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Finally, the song we use in the intro is “Shiny Spaceship” by the 8-bit Ninjas. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

Scott is a writer and founder at 9to5. He’s a host on The 9to5 Entertainment System and does a lot of the graphic design around these parts.

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: barkley marathon, barkley marathons, free agency, glow, gorgeous ladies of wrestling, habs, leafs, lebron james, luke cage, montreal geek, montreal geek podcast, montreal podcast, nba free agency, netflix, nhl free agency, nhl trades, tavares, world cup, world cup 2018

Comments Off

Dozens

by keith on July 4, 2018 at 7:34 am

Chapter: Saga

Characters: jon, the board

Would you stop booing? There’s nothing wrong with being an urban wizard. There are dozens of them. Dozens.

(With reverence to Arrested Development).

I’m not even 100% how we got around to writing this one. I wish I had better recollection of our process because I do not remember how this strip came to be. I think it started off as Jon dipping back into the well of his DM experience in a workplace setting and then sort of evolved into being about Jon wearing wizard robes to work. Which, as we know, he wears under his clothes anyways.

Wait a minute, is Jon a dowser? Aren’t they the real urban wizards?

You know you’ve been blogging, podcasting and writing comics for a long time when you can find previous references to DM’ing at work, wearing wizard robes all the time and dowsing for water all on your website. That stuff is just there, kicking around. For you.

As always, please tell your friends about this comic and this website. Every time you share a post, Sophie gets another set of wings. Soon she will transcend into her final form. Which I presume is kind of a heavy-metal dark Seraph of some kind.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: comic, dnd, dozens of us, dungeon master, geek montreal, montreal comic, montreal geek, montreal webcomic, urban wizard, urban wizards, wizard, wizard comic, wizard robes

Comment

The Truth Is So Much Worse…

by keith on April 4, 2018 at 11:48 am

Chapter: Saga

Characters: Jom

Location: Comics

Sophie is back from the dead!

Wait a second, Sophie died last week and is back this week. With Easter in between? Guys, I think we’re on to something here.

We have had a hard time keeping up with the ideal of publishing at least one comic a week in the nearly 7 year run of the website, but still, we’ve managed to put out nearly 200 strips in that time.

Somehow, despite all of that output, people are not stopping us in the street to ask for our autographs. In fact, I haven’t ever even been offered a free drink due to my webcomic creator celebrity status.

One can only imagine what the result would be if any of us tried to use this comic as a pick up strategy.

If you like these comics and want to support us, feel free to drop as little as $1 a month into our Patreon fund. The amount we would love you would be staggering. You would be staggered.

See you next week!

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

The background image of the bar taken from “Back Bar Designs” at xdmagazine.net

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: montreal comic, montreal geek, montreal geeks, montreal webcomic, webcomic, webcomic artists, webcomic montreal

Comment

Reboot!

by keith on February 28, 2018 at 1:48 pm

Chapter: Saga

Characters: jon, keith, scott, sophie

So, funny story. We decided we were going to dust off the comic and get together to write a few one panel strips to get our creative goo flowing.

Then Scott told us he didn’t want to do the comic anymore. The first comic wrote itself.

Creating and producing a webcomic has always been part of why this site even exists. We’ve been through the “origin story” of this whole little enterprise several times in the past, but the initial thing that became this entire website was Scott adding word bubbles (copy-pasted out of emails) to a doodle that Sophie did of the three of us.

We’ve had a number of stops and starts with the output of the comic. The problem with doing something as a hobby is that the pressures of the real world tend to take priority. It takes a lot to get us all on the same page.

In terms of Scott no longer working on the comic, that’s totally cool. He just wants to focus on a few individual projects for the time being, and he’ll obviously be around on 9ES (we can also make him blog if we get one more donor at the 3$ level or higher on our Patreon). But for the foreseeable future the comic is going to be run by myself, Jon and Sophie.

We’ll see how that goes.

We’re getting our groove back on by doing these fun 1 panel comics. We’ve got a million other ideas kicking around, but for now, the goal is to at least get one of these dudes up a week.

To quote the dearly departed Scott: “Like a family circus, but funny?”

I hope so buddy, I hope so.

Jon is a Master of Dungeons of the highest caliber. He podcasts with me over on 9to5 Entertainment System and occasionally blogs here in Jon’s Junk.

Sophie does all of the arts on 9to5 illustrated and blogs weekly about her adventures with beer in The Ignorant Beer Review.

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: 9to5, 9to5 cc, 9to5 comic, 9to5cc comic, Montreal, montreal geek, montreal webcomic, webcomic

Comment

Laura Flynn – Go Plug Yourself 149

by keith on February 8, 2018 at 7:57 am

Posted In: Go Plug Yourself, Podcast, Podcasting

We’re just 1 week away from our Episode 150 Live Spectacular at Mainline Theatre so we thought it would be a good idea to have Laura Flynn on for episode 149. Why? Because she’ll be our Mainline buddy over in the Mini-Main! Hurray! If you haven’t had the pleasure of witnessing the singing, storytelling, “dancing” and Patrick Swayze-loving Laura Flynn you are doing yourself a disservice. We talk about all kinds of things, like Irish celebrities and a choir of elderly Francophones in Joliette. Enjoy!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Check out Laura’s latest rendition of her hit Fringe show “Get Your Shuffle On” Feb 16-18 at Mainline Theatre.

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

Walter J. Lyng is a stand-up comedian based out of Montreal, you should follow him on Twitter @wallygoodtimes and on Facebook: Walter J. Lyng

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: get your shuffle on, go plug yourself, gpys, laura flynn, laura flynn podcast, montreal comedy, montreal comedy podcast, montreal geek, montreal podcast, podcast montreal, walter, walter lyng, walter lyng podcast

Comments Off

Big Fish: The Treasure Map – A D&D Adventure Blog

by keith on January 10, 2018 at 8:32 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Jon, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Where the adventuring party follows a magic treasure map at the behest of young Jim Clocks, a pirate.

If this is your first time checking out our little D&D Adventure Blog, you might want to check out this post that explains the setup and format of the game. As always, I’m in black and Jon’s in blue. Our last adventure was “The Fancy Party“. You can check out all “Big Fish” content on this nifty landing page.

At the end of the terrible trouble a few adventures back, my character pocketed a magical treasure map. It would be the focus for the adventure that Jon was catering to my character. This session would be the first time for my character in the “starring” role and I thought that going with something treasure map related would be sticking to the piratey roots of the concept. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: 9to5 dnd, adventure blog, big fish, dnd, dungeons and dragons, jim clocks, mimic, montreal geek, montreal geek blog, pirate ship, wood hag

4 Comments

Shaking the Dust Off – Motivated Nonsense

by keith on November 28, 2017 at 12:52 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

This is going to be one of those blogs where I ramble on and on to myself and try to stay motivated. Will it work? Find out by reading all of it.

Sarah and I have had a kind of recurring conversation about looking back at our time together and nostalgia in general. I think looking back is only natural as the year winds down. I even keep a little list of cool stuff that’s happened over the year to take a look at as the new year approaches. I don’t like being “stuck in the past” but I like kind of going over the things that made me happy in the past. I think there’s kind of a proactive way of doing it, one where you avoid getting bogged down in just reliving former glories.

If you take stock of the good times, the things that you found were rewarding, you might be able to focus your efforts into pursuing similar things in the future. At least, that’s the theory.

It seems that as I work my way into my mid-30s I am more and more likely to get trapped in that mindset of “things were better when…” You know, when everything seemed simpler? When there were always a friends hanging out to meet up with? When there weren’t so many bills to pay? When we all got together to watch a movie because there was only one copy of it on tape in the whole city?

Life used to be like a loose bag of Legos. You could put it together any way that you wanted to. It always seemed like it would be easy to just quickly pull it apart and make something new if you didn’t like what was happening. But now it’s this complicated Lego tower and changing any of those blocks way down at the bottom seems nearly impossible.

So maybe it’s not the end of the world to take a look at your Lego tower and relive the parts that you’re happy with? There’s still a lot of tower to build. Maybe it’ll be easier if you focus on building up the good parts. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: aging, am i too old, geek\, montreal blog, montreal geek, motivation, perspicacious, perspicacious geek, self motivation, shea weber is 32, stay motivated, why aging sucks

Comments Off

Big Fish – A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Blog – Prologue

by keith on November 15, 2017 at 8:05 pm

Posted In: Blogs, Featured Post, Homepage, Jon, Jon's Junk, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Every couple years it seems like Dungeons & Dragons makes another push further into the mainstream. Initially the only mainstream attention that it got was negative. With horror stories of demon worshipping kids getting lost in sewers and other nonsense only tangentially linked to the game itself.

For most of my memory, tabletop roleplaying has been associated with a negative stigma. Throughout high-school and college it was a pastime that, while popular, was almost exclusively relegated to nerdy niche. However, we are recently enjoying an increased visibility of all things “geek” in mainstream media. A lot of which translates directly into the increased popularity of D&D. The most popular show on TV (Game of Thrones) is a fantasy setting. The heroes of another hugely popular show (Stranger Things) love to play D&D.

You can check out all “Big Fish” content on this nifty landing page.

Don’t take my word for it, even The New Yorker is extolling the virtues and resurgence of the game.

↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: 5th edition, adventure blog, big fish, d&d, d&D 5th ed, d&d blog, dnd, dragons, dungeons, dungeons & dragons, geek blog, geek montreal, montreal geek

Comments Off

Stranger Things Mobile and You’re The Worst Season 4

by keith on October 17, 2017 at 10:15 am

Posted In: Blogs, Homepage, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

It’s the Fall TV season everyone, which means less and less every year. With HBO releasing some of their biggest shows during the summer and Netflix just out and saying that they don’t care about traditional programming schedules, we’re less shackled to the idea that this one time of the year is for new television.

That doesn’t mean that there isn’t still new TV though.

You’re the Worst Season 4

You’re the Worst is still the best show you’re not watching. There’s a rumour that apparently one of the FX bigwigs just really loves the show and that’s why it keeps getting renewed. If so, bless that man (or woman). There were episodes of Season 3 that only had 100k people watching. Even by the standards of a cable channel that’s depressingly low.

If you’re not familiar with the premise, it centers around the romance between Jimmy (Chris Geere)and Gretchen (Aya Cash). Jimmy is a self-absorbed writer who hates the world and Gretchen is self-destructive PR agent who hates the world. The reason this works at all is that the show masterfully sneaks humanity into these outwardly irredeemable characters. All while being genuinely hilarious.

Despite the fact that these characters are outwardly despicable, the show manages to make you care about and if not sympathize, at least empathize with them. For a show centered around people who are actively monstrous to almost everyone they meet, they become strangely endearing. Probably my favorite feat of storytelling is pulling this off.

Well measured splashes of humanity offsetting an ocean of cancerous behavior. The audience ends up actually caring about your monsters. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing

└ Tags: Montreal, montreal geek, montreal geek blog, perspicacious geek, stranger things, stranger things mobile, you're the worst season 4, youre the worst

Comments Off

Leonard Cohen and Fargo Season 2 – Perspicacious Geek

by keith on October 9, 2017 at 10:23 am

Posted In: Homepage, Keith, Perspicacious Geek

Where are we at right now?

I was just talking with Scott about hitting creative blocks. Or motivational blocks. Or output blocks.

Or Lego blocks.

This blog seems to just be me complaining about motivation lately. That’s fine. Sometimes it’s just nice to do something and post it, without worrying about the audience.

With the ever looming goal of actually writing a novel, I think it’s not the worst idea to make sure I blog from time to time. If writing a book is playing a professional sport, blogging is hitting the exercise bike. It’s certainly not a full application of “writing” but it’s still good to stay in shape.

Anyways, here’s what I’ve been watching, listening to and thinking about. Think of this as stuff that I didn’t get around to talking about on 9ES.

What I’ve Been Watching:

We just finished up Season 2 of Fargo. Pretty hefty spoilers ahead for a 2 year old show.

I often take a step back and wonder whether or not I would enjoy Fargo as much if it wasn’t full of delightful mid-Western accents. Would the show be as charming and engaging if it was just set in upstate New York? Probably not. But I don’t waste my time thinking about that too much because it DOES take place in the mid-West. With all of Season 2 alternating between Minnesota and the Dakotas as we build towards the “Massacre in Sioux Falls” that was referenced a few times in the first season. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Irritate Your Loved Ones by Sharing