No wonder I love all of you! I have been laughing my butt off!
I am a hippy geek. Wife of a book nerd and mother of geeks.
I grew up on Star Trek, ponies and wild berries. My favorite books were all written in the 1940's and most were ag textbooks in their day. On my WDTV box is Dr Who, Torchwood, Star Trek, River Cottage, The Good Life (aka Good Neighbors), Twilight Zone, Big Bang, Black Adder, Hitchcock presents, and until recently BOTH Dark Shadows series (hubby watches box too). On my pickup truck radio Highland Bagpipes, Tull or Big Band is a crankin'.
My hubby most resembles the garbage man in the Dilbert comics.
My children are geeks. When she was but a tiny babe my D1 was engulfed by the world of Star Wars. She wore a padawan braid halfway through school. She read every Star Wars book ever written (even fan fiction
). Just when I was sure I would end up with Luke Skywalker as a SIL she finally grew up and got married ... to a SCA wanna-be, military geek that makes his own chain maille, draws anime and writes fantasy fiction when not involved with MMORPG or D&D. My D1 is fluent in Grelvish which she tells me is a form of Quenya and Sindarin (which is elvish for the un initiated). She spend her free time on Britt (Ultima Online) or Stormwind City (WOW). Sometime in her adult years she finally came to her senses and renounced Star Wars for the more sensible Star Trek. (Although she still has a Luke Skywalker action figure riding shotgun in her car). She is original series all of the way. She purrs when Shatner comes on the screen and I can't say in a public forum things she has told me regarding Spock.
Her bookshelf includes, D&D instruction books, Star Wars books, two Bulfinch mythologies (1st edition original and abridged) amongst about a million (OK slight exaggeration) other titles and Highlander, Firefly, and Buffy round out her movies. Her sheep is Malcolm Reynolds. Her dog is "dog" in Grelvish. Her house is decorated in Renaissance Medieval, complete with helm on the medieval replica tv cabinet to the sword collection in the hall. Ya ... geek.
D2 is your typical OCD gourmet chef nerd. Pretty much explains it. She is named after a character in Dune.
GEEK son is ... well a techno geek. He grew up listening to old radio shows with the Great Gildersleeve amongst his favorites. When he was about 8 he came running to me shouting "Come and see Mom. I can program in DOS!" His entire childhood was spent disemboweling every mechanical/electrical device we owned. He speaks several languages ... all of them computer languages. He likes to do fun things like modify maps in game, decode codes and play with all things binary including his bedroom clock. Joss Whedon is his favorite director. He owns all of the Dilbert comics and a first edition signed copy of one of them. His middle name is after the lead singer in Jethro Tull.
In our family Monte Python is mostly memorized. You haven't lived until you have sat at our dinner table and listened to the entire "lovely muck" skit performed by SIL, and GEEK son with a few lines by D1. Or listened to scientific debates about esoteric subjects over a burger at Wendy's.
Yeah - pretty sure we are geeks.
Some nerds are just more stereotypical than others. You don't have to own a Star Fleet uniform to be certifiable.
I still have the original text game for the IBM PC on 5 1/4 inch floppy disks (not the be confused with discs).
