Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar Gallaga
| Friday, September 19, 2008, 09:34 AM
Austin gaming legend Richard Garriott paid a visit to “The Colbert Report” (by phone) on last night’s episode
Colbert will be part of Garriott’s October trip to the International Space Station as one DNA chunk of the “Immortality Drive” that the game designer plans to take into space. Colbert called his contribution “A backup Stephen Colbert recipe” in case the Earth should be destroyed and the universe need be repopulated with the help of aliens. (Colbert requested his DNA get the top half of any new cross-bred human/alien species.)
Garriott phoned in from Moscow, where he is training for his space trip and rolled with Colbert’s frequent jokes. He didn’t even sound like he minded be called Colbert’s “DNA astro-mule.”
I won’t spoil any more jokes as you can see the entire segment below:
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