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.

[ericcoleman]

Me too ... I wonder if he is ever going to do the 3rd series.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

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

[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....

[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.

[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.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

"Classic American Bookshelf" --I shall have to steal this phrase.

I'm not sure what surprises my visitors more, the Wall of Bookcases in my living room, the sewing table in my kitchen (that's where it fit) or all of the framed artwork I've picked up from various conventions.

Thanks to my job in publishing, I have a World of Warcraft continent map--it was a promotional item from Argosy.

[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.

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Have an egg. :D

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[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!! :)

[saganth.livejournal.com]

LOL what a great/cute idea!

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

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Speaking of plushies, I should like to announce my latest addition, picked up from the Field Museum in Chicago after seeing their current exhibit on Mammoths: a small plush wooly mammoth that I have named... Wally Mimmoth!

Thank you, Girl Genius!