Sean D. Francis

Avatar continues to make great gains at the box office which boosts the Geek Index.  A lot of non Geek movies dropped off the box office chart and television was dominated by forensic science procedure shows like CSI and NCIS. The Big Bang Theory, despite being a rerun also made the top ten and I [...]

As the Geek Index indicates, it is a very good time to be a geek.  There is only one core reason why the Geek Index spiked over the weekend: Avatar.  A science fiction movie made with cutting edge technology with amazing fantastic battle sequences between flying dragon like creatures, massive gunships, and mech suits has [...]

There’s been a problem with the application I built to determine the Geek Index. This is a shame since The Watchmen have really made the GI soar this week. I will have everything repaired in short order.

The Geek Index took a huge tumble today due to the hit geek related stocks took in the market. The entire stock market suffered today – the stocks across the board lost value. Add in the fact that movie theaters lost some of the Geek movies that was helping keep the index propped up and [...]

I’ve spent some time looking at the economy and determined that while I know very little about the auto industry, the financial industry, and pretty much all of business world as a whole, but I have a pretty good sense of Geekdom.  I’ve taken this keen insight and started building what I called a Geek [...]