Happy Geek Pride Day

[filkertom]

33rd anniversary of the release of Star Wars, too. Yeesh. No question, that's well into see-it-with-your-grandkids range.

Any particular point of Geek Pride for you? I think mine is the Kosh inaction figure. Or maybe the various avatars of Cthulhu around the house. Or the Wallace & Gromit alarm clock. Or my collection of Slave Leias. Or the Chronicles of Prydain collection that I've carefully kept for about thirty years. Or the stupid number of external hard drives I've got laying around. Or....

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[mythochromos]

Hehe...yes, you have geek cred. XD

There's no question I've been sliding deeper and deeper, going from Monty Python jokes to psychology jokes to City of Heroes jokes...then for a new flavor the energy work jokes...then for another of geekdom, the knitting jokes...but yesterday took things to yet another new level, one that almost scares me.

My new sweetie and I started a static duo in Aion and set cute little character comments for each other. Mine is in Ragi, the maddeningly mathematical language of the atevi in C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series. His is in Enochian.

[filkertom]

Hee. Yet another reason I don't dare get into MMORPG -- I would just eat that shit up. When I was playing The Sims a few years ago, I spent days landscaping and house decorating, y'know?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Collection of Slave Leias? 0_0

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Various and sundry picture files, and a few action figures, including the Lego one on a keychain. :-P Anne gave me that one, actually. She also gave me a fantastic pewter figurine of Gollum and Bilbo having the Riddle Game that is still packed away somewhere, murfle murfle murf....

[allisona.livejournal.com]

It's gotta be the "Firefly" cross-stitch hanging in my living room. Or maybe the Blake's Seven Liberator cross-stitch propped in my bedroom.

And we won't even get into the basement that John has turned into a haven for Star Wars/ Lord of The Rings/ Conan/ 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, whatever his geek passion of the moment is.

[ericcoleman]

The Kevin Matchstick action figure on my CD shelf.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Gotta dig mine out. I've got the glow-in-the-dark baseball bat.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I'm also celebrating "The Glorious 25th of May," which is a Terry Pratchett thing. Anyone who's read Night Watch will recognize the phrase instantly. And I'm celebrating Towel Day, in memory of Douglas Adams. So today is a veritable trinity of geek holidays.

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Have an egg. :D

[arensb.livejournal.com]

(Computer geek, not SF geek, but hey, whatever.)

I once made a Hacker Barbie for a friend's birthday. I got the jeans and T-shirt from a Ken doll; drew the camel from the O'Reilly Perl book on the T-shirt; bent some wire into glasses; and tied her hair back with a twisty-tie.

I never did manage to make her say "TCP is fun! Let's go reconfigure the router!" though.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

LOL what a great/cute idea!

Did you at least manage to give her a miniature can of Jolt?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Happy Towel Day!

Aside from the house being decorated in Classic American Bookshelf (overflowing with books, DVDs, and CDs), there's the Hagrid action figure and matching child's umbrella, Opus the Penguin stuffed figure complete with "Penguin Lust!" button, and about another hundred pounds of suchlike scattered around the apartment.

The stacks of old desktop computers (about a dozen) waiting for either resurrection (Celerons of P4 vintage) or dissection (P2 and PIIIs) aren't even under consideration.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

My Opus is somewhere in the middle bedroom, along with my stuffed Alien. And I should get the Amigas out of the shed at some point....

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Point of geek pride? My complete set of Lensman novels.

[kengr]

I'll see your Lensmen and raise you a set of Skylark.

ps. Do you have "The Vortex Blaster" (a Lensman spin-off of sorts by Smith)

[ldyerzsie.livejournal.com]

My point of Geek Pride is the story from my boyfriend about his interaction with the clerk in the comic book store when he was buying my birthday present last year. He mentioned to the clerk that I like The Watchmen, Johny the Homicidal Maniac, and several other such comics. The comic store clerk told my boyfriend that he was quite lucky and that I was a definate keeper. That birthday present, incidentally, is a figure of Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl.

"Stupid butt-fork."

[cathain.livejournal.com]

http://www.sunflower.com/~caitlin/ourfriend.jpg

Celebrating my glorious geekness.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Is... is that a Cthulhu dressed up as Buck Rogers or something? o.O

[hms42]

hmm... Having all "4 Marvin the Paranoid Android" songs on the computer.

Download link -

http://hhgproject.org/entries/marvin.html

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

...I changed my legal name to "Anakin." Have I mentioned that I really detest the prequels?

On a collector's note, I've got a Wizard of Speed and Time poster in my bedroom. eBay is awesome.

[susan-the-rogue.livejournal.com]

Almost as awesome as you. *fellow WoSaT fan*

[griffen.livejournal.com]

I have a Graduate Cthulhu, a large collection of fantasy and sci-fi, more SCA stuff than you can shake a stick at... yeah, I'm pretty much a fiction-and-history geek. Not so much with the computer geekage, although every operational computer in this house is a Mac.

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

I've got my towel! :D

There is geeky stuff all over the house. Don't know that I could pick a single one.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Tons o' geek stuff on my computer, but physically I'd say 5 pieces in particular of all the physical stuff I have:

1. a poster of Claudia Christian, that I made myself with photoshop, based on her Playboy spread that she autographed

2. a model of the USS Excelsior I made out of gray space Lego bricks in high school that is still intact

3. a 3" die-cast Shogun Warrior figure that is in fair condition still (Dragun, the red and blue robot who kinda looks like the Statue of LIberty crossed with Londo Mollari)

4. my Doctor Who sonic screwdriver toy

5. my books - recently heavily scaled back for moving purposes, so it's really just the best stuff or the stuff I most want to read, and so are now even more precious to me!!

Now if I can just find a proud geek grrl to share all this with!! :)

[kshandra]

Regarding point 1 - the shot on the fur? With the dagger? ...I'll be in my bunk.

Regarding point 4 - which version of the Sonic Screwdriver?

[cathain.livejournal.com]

OOO you want to see GEEKY? I have a 5.5 pound hand and a half (i.e. bastard)sword. This is a REAL SWORD, not some piece of "hang on the wall made from leaf spring" shiny piece of stuff. It is a hand forged, blacksmith made, perfectly balanced sword that was made to see combat and did.
Here's a picture of it out of it's sheath and in all of it's 4 foot glory:
http://www.sunflower.com/~caitlin/sword.jpg

[susan-the-rogue.livejournal.com]

Let's see....I've got a poster of the 10th Doctor hanging over my bed, a map of Middle Earth by the door, a red cloak hanging on the door of my closet, a Darth Goofy action-figure by the window (still in the package), the Wizard of Speed and Time soundtrack on my computer, a large sunflower by my mirror that I drew, cut out, and attached to a stick to carry around AWA last year (fiance was a Safety Cone zombie), a Spyro the Dragon plushie, badges from various convention hanging on my corkboard (including my Dragon*Con '07 badge that you autographed, Tom), a brown ribbon car-magnet that says "Support Our BDHs", a very nice framed picture of the four hobbits that my mother gave me for Christmas one year, and my fiance is a catboy/hobbit.

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

LOVE your icon! :D Harry Dresden FTW!

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

Wow. You know, I was going to post something about my geek pride, but I'm beginning to think I am a rank amateur compared to the rest of the commentors here.

I mean, all I really have are a room full of fantasy and science fiction boobies and a fairly small Captain Marvel collection.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

"all I really have are a room full of fantasy and science fiction boobies"????

Sweet!

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

At first I thought of the big moon globe, or the knitted dalek, or the walls'o'books... but on further consideration I think it would have to be the issue of Analog with my first published story in it.

[capt-video.livejournal.com]

Can I count a relative who claims he's been abducted by aliens more that 50 times?

No?

How about an apartment crammed with books and RPGs, tons of Iron Man toys, the Gelfling dolls from "The Dark Crystal", the mini-Cthulhu that watches TV with me, and an actual prop from "Escape From New York"?

Oh, yeah... I also serve on a convention committee...

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Let's look at some stuff on the shelf: Ghoul Show Froggy, Ghoul Show Boom-Boom Betty, Jurasic Park era 6" raptor holding a vial of Dino DNA (Marcon30?),piano roll of Paddlin' Madelin Home, Draftsaurous, Brain In A Box, Godzilla with his bottle of Tully, SNL type gyrating statue of Liberty, Peter Pan and Captain Hook still in hyper-sleep tubes. Range of Sony media players-DAT, MiniDisc, 8mm VCR, VCR, cassette deck -- each of those formats field recorded some filk in the past for me.

[susan-the-rogue.livejournal.com]

And I don't know how I forgot, but I also have a knitted Star Trek stocking that I got from my ontd_startrek Secret Santa last year (it's awesome and comfortable), and my father's old "Revenge of the Jedi" t-shirt.

[tcgtrf.livejournal.com]

We've got five thousand books, fifty of which are autographed and three of which I wrote.

There's a letter of thanks from Denvention and the Xerox of the first check that I received as a pro on the wall in front of my workstation next to the eleven rules for writing that I learned from Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, and Jody Lyn Nye.

Tom

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

We watched the original three yesterday. Our Holiday Monday, Victoria Day Weekend. I declaired it Star Wars orgy day and Ian decided that was far to embarassing. even though he knew exactly what I meant. Kids, I know two other things he doesn't want me to say, but the remaining two words a are mystery. Not sure if or when we'll watch the first three, not strong favorites in our house.

I still remember the feeling of absolute magic I felt when I watched "a new hope" it was magic, it beyond magic. I was more than old enough to know it wasn't real, that it was just a movie. But I wanted it to be real. I had imaginary battles and talks with every one. I fought Darth Vader. I wanted to be a Jedi. I was 17, and I knew it wasn't real but if I had written down what I imagined. I didn't even know about fandom until 1986. But my kids grew up watching Star Wars, and they loved it just as much as Wayne and I did. Sigh. I'm a geek and prod of it!

the obsession

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Okay, I read the rules, so I guess I should name a big obsession.
I got something like 1,500 Dr. Demento shows as mp3 files with several hundred as lossless audio CDs or original vinyl. I was tapeing way back when, but getting a set of LPs from doc for contributing filk to his show did get me started on a path...