In Which Mrs. L Gets Her Geek On

This post is not about food. So if you are looking for something food related this is not the post you are looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.

I am not a geek. Not even close. I have my moments, but basically, I am geek clueless.

I barely know how to turn on my computer. I do not know HTML, Linux and Perl is something you do with knitting. Why did it take four days for me to do this post? Cuz Typepad changed how they do things and I'm completely confused.

I have owned very nice Nikon and Minolta SLR's. I own a digital Rebel. I never use anything but the automatic settings.

If faced with more than one remote control for the TV, I break out in a cold sweat and call my husband for help.

I've seen every episode of Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek Enterprise and Star Trek Voyager. Multiple times. In HD. Remastered. I've seen most of the DS9 episodes. I cannot though, tell you any of the episode titles, rattle off villain names, give plot descriptions and if push comes to shove, I may have a hard time remembering main characters names and general backgrounds (I can tell you I had a thing for Trip).

I stood in line four hours to see the original Star Wars movie...but back then everyone had to wait in line when it first came out. I called in sick to work to see a 10 AM first day showing of Star Wars VI (does that give me a tiny bit of geek cred?), but I cannot name every character, which movie they were in nor the names of their vehicles. And I liked Jar Jar Binks and Hayden as Darth so most geeks won't even talk to me.

Yes, I've been to a Star Trek convention, but it was recently, it was a very small one, we did not dress up and Mr. L will confirm that Leonard Nimoy was right next to me and I didn't even notice.

I read Neuromancer, didn't understand a thing and if asked all I can say about it is that it is about human computers.

I've never played a role playing game like D&D. I'm old enough to remember when Pong first came out. I played it all the time (we had a machine at work). But that was pretty much the only video game I ever got into. I've never played PacMan, Donkey Kong or really any other video game (except for that week my thumb went numb while house sitting playing Dr. Mario on their Nintendo) . We have a Wii. I've never made it past the demo disk that comes with the controls.

I did buy Fantastic Four comics when I was a kid but they were alongside Veronica, Archie and Richie Rich comics. I did buy the first six or seven issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when they originally came out because a boyfriend took me with him to the comic store and it was the only comic I found that looked interesting. I will take a bit of geek cred for convincing three of my girlfriends back then to dress up with me as Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael for a Halloween party. Since this was before TMNJ were popular no one had a clue who we were dressed as and we were known for years as "the four green girls". No, I can't remember which of the four turtles I was.

This past weekend though. I played geek. I went to Super-Con. I shook hands with Jorge Garcia from Lost, I was amazed at Jane Wiedlin's boobs (she's doing a new comic book and the girls were SOOOOO out there for viewing). I was blown away by amazing artwork by artists like Frank Cho, Greg Horn, Joe Jusko and Michael Golden. We met the most wonderful actor Don Pedro Colley who was the hologram in THX1138 and was in the Planet of the Apes. I was able to pick up the new three comic book set of Serenity. But I went there for one reason and one reason only. Wil Wheaton. I have learned more about all things geek from following Wils blog. I can woot and pwn and grock (a word by the way, that our minister used during our rehearsal which had Mr. L and I almost busting out with laughter) . And he was there. And he shook my hand and talked nice to me. And I was able to (hopefully) get out a few coherent words in the presence of a celebrity who I greatly admire. So yeah. I may fail in many ways to be a true geek, but at least this past weekend, I was able to get my geek on.

Comments

i heart wil!

Posted by: barbie2be | May 23, 2008 at 09:50 AM

I am a geek but the only Sci Fi I like is Star Wars. I did not like Jar Jar but I did like Hayden as Darth.

Posted by: peabody | May 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM

hurley!! that alone would've made my month! :)

Posted by: grace | May 23, 2008 at 01:41 PM

Yeah, that is so cool that you met Hurley. But Yay for you getting to meet Wil! I know you really, really "admire" him...hehehe. I hope you got a picture!

Posted by: Shannon | May 23, 2008 at 06:32 PM

You had me at the Tom Servo & Crow picture. :) I actually went to a MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) convention back in the day. I am an ubernerd, although my love lies more with Star Wars than Star Trek (I do enjoy Star Trek though, I'm not a hater). :)

Posted by: Ann | May 24, 2008 at 10:49 AM