Omigod, it’s Geek Pride Day Again!!!!!!!

Today is the day that we nerds, dork and geeks wear our chosen badges with honor and pride!

Seen at Once Upon A Geek

It’s a four-fecta of geekiness:

1. Geek Pride Day – Fly your geek flag high, you geeky mcgeekersons!
2. Star Wars Day – The other Star Wars Day, Star Wars was released 34 years ago on May 25th, 1977
3. Towel Day – Every year on May 25th fans of Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy commemorate the author and his works by carrying a towel around. Not that a hoopy frood doesn’t always have a towel with him.
4. Glorious 25th of May – A celebratory day for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fans. It’s all about Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg!

And I found this Manifesto over at Wikipedia – did you know we had a manifesto!?

Rights:

1. The right to be even geekier.
2. The right to not leave your house.
3. The right to not like football or any other sport.
4. The right to associate with other nerds.
5. The right to have few friends (or none at all).
6. The right to have as many geeky friends as you want.
7. The right to be out of style.
8. The right to show off your geekiness.
9. The right to take over the world.

Responsibilities:

1. Be a geek, no matter what.
2. Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
3. If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
4. To save and protect all geeky material.
5. Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a “museum of geekiness.”
6. Don’t be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
7. Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
8. Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
9. Don’t waste your time on anything not related to geekdom.
10. Try to take over the world!

I don’t know that I live up to all of the responsibilities on the list, but I sure hit a number of them. Ah well, room to grow.

Geek confession time!

I gotta say, my geekiest moment ever is probably when I was LARPing. LARP is one of the hardest things for me to explain to non-geeks. They understand specialized geekiness with science, movie trivia, sports stats and things like that. They get video games, and comics, and most people have heard of sci-fi conventions and D&D, but Live Action Role Playing?

“You see…you dress up like a character, then you act like them – you know, like a character in a play? – and sometimes you have battles, but because you can’t really have battles, all fights are conducted with rock-paper-scissors. And then when…”

That’s about when I start losing people.

I would love to hear about your glorious geekiness if you’re willing to share. What is your favorite geeky/nerdy/dorky thing to do, read or play? Or…what is the geekiest/nerdiest/dorkiest think you have ever done?