I have this monster writing project going at work right now. With my excessive wine consumption in its second week, the project is going slowly and I found time to catch up on some of my fave blogs.
Heartless Doll, recently put together an excellent list of things that people like to love because they think they are geeky but are actually cool. Living in the crafty/cool nerd haven that is Portland, I lol'ed several times, because it is so fucking true. I am sick of these over-self-identifying cool kids making the true geeks feel bad because, come on, they're still not gonna get a seat at the cool-geek table.
I've composed my own list of stuff that is geeky that is actually geeky. This is not comprehensive, or in any real order:
10. Reading 2600.
9. Linux. Boyfriend's suggestion. What is it?
8. Having pet iguanas, snakes, ferrets, or gerbils. A dude once revealed his pet iguanas on the 3rd date. It was last date.
7. Writing letters to the editors of consumer goods magazines. Get a life, nerd.
6. Your favorite actor is Keanu Reeves or Martin Short.
5. Trenchcoats. When I was in college, we used to play "Would you rather..." a lot. The worst one we could ever come up with was wearing a trenchcoat for the rest of your life, all the time, including at the beach or while having sex or attending job interviews, OR giving a blowjob to this weird guy who lived on the next floor. We always had to opt for the blowjob, but it was tough, because few things in life could seem worse than that. Wearing a trenchcoat all the time is just that bad.
4. Being socially retarded. Not like "oooh, no boys like me, I'm so nerdy and socially retarded!" but being seriously bad in public and making everybody uncomfortable. If you have friends, you are cool, and this isn't you.
3. Quoting Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Nerds drop those lines as a means of testing new acquaintances for possible membership in the nerd group.
2. Being really good at math and making everybody know it. It is one thing - and a cool thing - to like to learn and share the knowledge. It is another to go "YOU DON'T SPEAK HEXADECIMAL?"
1. Not liking shit like this. Real nerds don't waste their internet time on this crap.
I know I am forgetting a lot. I just wanted to put something together to remind all of us that we are pretty cool people, and our moms think we're smart, and there is no need to self-identify as a lame-o, because let's face it, you're one of the cool kids now. Probably.
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