Geek Pride!
So today, May 25th, is what has come be known as Geek Pride Day. Don’t ask me why or who started it, just embrace it!
Geek Love Poem
The Geek Manifesto:
Rights:
- The right to be even geekier.
- The right to not leave your house.
- The right to not like football or any other sport.
- The right to associate with other nerds.
- The right to have few friends (or none at all).
- The right to have as many geeky friends as you want.
- The right to be out of style.
- The right to be overweight and near-sighted.
- The right to show off your geekiness.
- The right to take over the world.
Responsibilities:
- Be a geek, no matter what.
- Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
- If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
- To save and protect all geeky material.
- Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a “museum of geekiness.”
- Don’t be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
- Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
- Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
- Never throw away anything related to geekdom.
- Try to take over the world!
I gotta say I don’t agree with everything on the manifesto because geeks have evolved a lot since these last couple years. And they are just rights, not musts. Just because I have the right to those things doesn’t mean I will exercise them. Take rights 2,3,5, and 8. Now why would I want to exercise those? However, Right 7 I fully embrace when I rock the mancapris.
Anyway, have a good Geek Pride day. Celebrate as you will. Continuing the spirit of Geekiness I will be posting a super geeky blog post in the coming days. It is actually half-way written right now, but I felt that this one should be put up on Geek Pride Day.
May 25th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
May is just the rockin’ month. Zombie awareness month, Jack Bauer appreciation day. It’s all awesome.
May 25th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
I disagree with some of the stuff, I think there’s a difference between nerd and geek. Some of these fall into the nerd category. There’s definitely more social requirements to be a geek.
May 25th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
So you disagree, or you would just add more? Like what?
May 25th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
I think a collaborative blog post needs to be made in order to properly define the difference between geek and nerd, because I never thought there was a difference.
May 26th, 2010 at 7:53 am
The geek in me would say, ha that’s an image of a funny shirt because I understand hex color codes and I’m familiar with the All Your Base meme (and I saw it before most people). The nerd in me would say that you could reduce it to #F00 and #00F to save a few bytes, especially if it’s being transmitted in an uncached situation.
Two big differences that help differentiate geeks and nerds: social skills and D&D experience. Not leaving the house, having few friends and being out of style and overweight are all detrimental to socialization. Participation in sports and any other outdoor recreation is another good indicator of being a geek (rather than just watching and talking about mainstream sports, this is the domain of jocks).
May 31st, 2010 at 9:29 am
Hmmmm…http://xkcd.com/747/
May 31st, 2010 at 11:04 am
Hahahahaha!!