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Grant

Holy crap, run!

About Me

Mythbusting television host by day, robot builder by night.I wrote a book on building robots called Kickin' Bot. My combat robot Deadblow was featured on BattleBots . I'm a mentor to a high school FIRST Robotics team (Team 841).I worked at Industrial Light and Magic for nearly ten years. A list of my theatrical credits can be found on IMDB . I used to drive R2-D2 and the Energizer Bunny. (Yes, the real ones.) I do more than play a geek on TV, I am a geek on TV.

My Interests

Music:

Counting Crows, Black Eyed Peas, Peter Gabriel, Hole, Evanescence, Natalie Merchant, early Britney Spears, Nelly Furtado, Offspring, Annie Lennox, No Doubt, Depeche Mode, IZ, Jack Johnson, early Prince, Phil Collins, Aerosmith, Paul Simon, Concrete Blonde, Tracy Chapman, Dido, 80's music. Guilty pleasures: Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, Milli Vanilli. Yeah, so what??

Movies:

I like action movies. And thrillers. And sci-fi. Bonus points when two or more are combined. The best movies are the ones where the characters are bound by the rules of their universe, and their words and actions are true to those rules. In no particular order: The Matrix, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Batman Begins, Memento, Back to the Future, Aliens, Terminator 2, Shaolin Soccer, Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn, Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI (pre-Special Edition - I'm entitled to my own opinion), Night Watch, LOTR series, Die Hard, Pirates of the Caribbean, Speed, Underworld. I also liked October Sky, Apollo 13, Office Space, Amelie, The Incredibles and The Princess Bride.

Television:

I try not to watch too much TV (ironic, isn't it?)New series: BSG, Eureka, The Big Bang Theory, Top Gear. Reruns: Buffy (I was once quoted in a newspaper as saying The Trio were my favorite Buffy characters, which is true), Firefly, SportsNight, and of course Star Trek (I'm partial to TNG). My old favorites are the A-Team, Knight Rider and Salvage One... you know the one where Andy Griffith builds a spaceship out of junk... awesome!

Books:

I'm trying to commit Machinery's Handbook to memory, but it has more pages than The Bible. The last fiction I read was Snow Crash. Ninja-pizza delivery guy. Awesome.

My Blog

T-shirts and bobble heads

Wow, has it been that long? Yeah, okay it has. Kari and I have designed some T-shirts and bobble heads. You can buy them at:CORRECTION ---> http://allgooddesign.net/store/mythterns/Okay, that's all. M...
Posted by Grant on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:57:00 PST

Where have you been?

The real question here is where haven't we been! In the first three weeks of this shooting block, we've been to South Carolina to see if we could beat the FMRI lie detector, BusterCon 1.0 in San Franc...
Posted by Grant on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:19:00 PST

DragonCon Merchandise Preview! UPDATED

Hey everyone!We're looking forward to seeing you at DragonCon in a few days. Just wanted to give you a little preview of what you can buy:Put the Build Team on your desk! Bobble Heads $30These limite...
Posted by Grant on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:40:00 PST

Superhero pictures!

There's lots of excitement about tonight's episode, Superhero Special. Just thought I'd post a few behind-the-scenes pics for you. Enjoy!GrantTory's about to give "Porkholio" a little headache....Kari...
Posted by Grant on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:26:00 PST

Convention Update

So just to clear up our coming convention schedule:Unfortunately, we won't be going to GenCon this year, but we're looking at doing 2008. However, we will be going to DragonCon. We'll be doing a massi...
Posted by Grant on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:59:00 PST

Another new interview!

Hey everyone!I've got a new interview up, from Brian at Skeptoid. You can find it at:http://skeptoid.com/1000questions.php?q=grant-imahara.sht ml Enjoy!Grant...
Posted by Grant on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:51:00 PST

New interview!

Hey everyone!I've joined Jamie and Kari and completed an interview with Joe Mammy.com! You can find it at:http://www.joe-mammy.com/pages/features/features.htmCheer s,Grant...
Posted by Grant on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:08:00 PST

Tools!

Here's an awesome email I received from Cricket(http://www.myspace.com/the_dixie_cricket ). Forgive me if you've heard it before, but I thought it was so funny that I had to share it with you all...
Posted by Grant on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:03:00 PST

Kari's Back!

Just to clear up a few things for everyone: The profile formerly known as www.myspace.com/karibyron or "Red" was a fake. Regrets to anyone who was communicating with this person. As I've mentioned num...
Posted by Grant on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:44:00 PST

100 Questions

..> ..> TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey Name: Grant Imahara Birthday: October 23, 1970 Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA Current Location: Oakland, CA Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Black Height...
Posted by Grant on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:19:00 PST