Embrace Your Geekness Day 2025
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I'd like to say the proponets were qualified to make the claim to fame, but I'm afraid they are largely "all show and no go" (Thank you Jon Collette).
I don't engage in fandom. A fanboy I will never be. Call me some fanboy and you may never walk or talk again.
My inner geek is a deep understanding of technology from a time when it was budding from non existence.
The stupidity of the 1970s gave rise to who I am.
I declined to be just another dumbass in the mix — so I engaged subject matter expertise in the areas of Unix, networking, hardware building and repair, human anatomy, physiology, and hepatic microsomal enzyme pathways to a level uncommon in the realms of the dull and commonplace from which I arose.
... Such as Orange County, California and Aiken County, South Carolina.
And I reigned supreme for 40 years.
Today is Embrace Your Geekness Day.
It's for those with a true claim, not the innumerable posers you find saying they are what they aren't.
When I put down my comic books and took up the keyboard things changed for me.
I was once a wizard.
I was once the one they called upon for the answers.
I was the one on the planet who could fix the machine to original spec.
I don't even care where the origins of the day are.
The fanatacism I once pursued has long dimmed by the ravages of age and I have never bit the head off a live chicken.
If you are a geek this is one of those days for you.
If you are something less, pursue your dreams anyway.
Happy Embrace Your Geekness Day.