Three updats in a week must be some kind of new record. I'm off to Norwescon this weekend, a massive sci-fi writers con, with the usual supply of gamers, costumers, and people speaking Klingon. I love the geek community and have been a part of it since I started playing AD&D 1E in the late 70s... but, it is sad seeing the big fat dopey con going stereotype year after year.
There are some very cool people and people that can hold down a "normal" conversation in-between discussion of the nuances of the latest "Battlestar Galactica". Unfortunately, the character of the "Comic Book Guy" on the Simpsons holds true, too.
Yes, they are no wierder than people that paint Green Bay Packers colors on their chest or the pig-nosed drag queens that watch the Redskins... but I guess I would just like "my" community to take some of the responsibility of the grief they take from the "normal" community and occasionally put down the cheetoes bag and take a fucking shower.
Geek doesn't bother me and being a big fat slob is anybody's right as an American. I would defend that right to the bitter end. But, it just makes me a little sad, I guess.
In the meantime, no more workout pictures (ironically in the entry I'm taking about doughy fanboys). Instead, an all text project I did for class. I complicated little treatment of a Cole Porter song. Live long and prosper!
There are some very cool people and people that can hold down a "normal" conversation in-between discussion of the nuances of the latest "Battlestar Galactica". Unfortunately, the character of the "Comic Book Guy" on the Simpsons holds true, too.
Yes, they are no wierder than people that paint Green Bay Packers colors on their chest or the pig-nosed drag queens that watch the Redskins... but I guess I would just like "my" community to take some of the responsibility of the grief they take from the "normal" community and occasionally put down the cheetoes bag and take a fucking shower.
Geek doesn't bother me and being a big fat slob is anybody's right as an American. I would defend that right to the bitter end. But, it just makes me a little sad, I guess.
In the meantime, no more workout pictures (ironically in the entry I'm taking about doughy fanboys). Instead, an all text project I did for class. I complicated little treatment of a Cole Porter song. Live long and prosper!
Anyway I wanted to tell you that geek is in the eye of the beholder. Even comic book guy is cool in his own circle of friends where Lisa would be considered a geek because she is not familiar with episode 15 of Deep Space Nine ("Worst episode ever.") Anyway, the point is everyone is a geek depending on the circle they are standing in and on the other hand every one is a rock start from time to time, too. In my daughter's preschool class I am so cool, however, according to most of the people on this site (but not you!) I would probably be a big weenie. Hope you had a good trip.
[Edited on Mar 27, 2005 6:33PM]