G to the E to the E to the K
I discovered a new podcast — GeeksOn — a couple of weeks ago when reading the Whedonesque blog. I’d only planned on listening to the Joss episode, but I thought it was so great that I immediately hit the back catalogue and started downloading all the other episodes that looked interesting. It was so awesome when I got to tell Mr Crumpet that I’d found a cool geek podcast before he had.
Now, I’ve always known that I lean to the geeky side of things, but because I’m not really a gamer or huge Star Trek fan or big-time coder and whatnot, I assumed I was fairly “normal”. And as is the case every time I start thinking I’m normal, something sucker-punches me and I realise that I’m really, really not. I’m obsessive in so many ways that it’s almost ridiculous. I’m a yarn geek. I’m an art geek. I buy science books for fun reading. I only ever use the camera in full manual mode. I know what frell and frak and dren mean. I use internet speak and phrases in real life and assume that people will know what the hell I’m talking about, instead of taking me literally when I say “I fell down in the comic book/yarn/art store.” My very favourite kitchen knife is named Vera. My Global vegetable knife is named Saffron. My Le Creuset dutch oven is named Zhaan, because it’s big and blue and beautiful and makes plant-based foods. My little Le Creuset multi-function pan is named Aeryn, because it’s strong and adaptable and gorgeous. I’ve named the big red electric litho press at uni Willow, because it’s powerful and awesome and makes magic. Along similar lines, my spinning wheel (which is a geeky enough thing in itself…) is named Fred, after Winifred Burkle. I make Firefly badges. And it doesn’t end there.
So me. Big, huge, massive, proud geek. Which is why I went squee! at this link the Mister sent me.