May 25th was designated as Geek Pride to coincide with the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977. Also celebrated on this day is Towel Day in honor of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Tim McEachern organized events called Geek Pride Festival and/or Geek Pride Day 1998 to 2000 at a bar in Albany, New York. In 2006, it was celebrated for the first time in Spain also.
In researching this day, I found a list of rights and responsibilities for the day:
Rights:
- The right to be even geekier.
- The right to not leave your house.
- The right to not like football or any other sport.
- The right to associate with other nerds.
- The right to have few friends (or none at all).
- The right to have as many geeky friends as you want.
- The right to be out of style.
- The right to be overweight and short-sighted.
- The right to show off your geekiness.
- The right to take over the world.
Responsibilities:
- Be a geek, no matter what.
- Try to be nerdier than anyone else.
- If there is a discussion about something geeky, you must give your opinion.
- To save and protect all geeky material.
- Do everything you can to show off geeky stuff as a “museum of geekiness.”
- Don’t be a generalized geek. You must specialize in something.
- Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else.
- Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related T-shirt, all the better.
- Never throw away anything related to geekdom.
- Try to take over the world!
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Peep Art Contests
Free Range ChiaPeeps
Yesterday, they released the winners of the Peep Art contests. Sadly, I did not win anything this year which is why I am featuring my entry in my blog post this morning! If you were not already aware, there are peep art contests sponsored by many newspapers on Easter. This is a really fun activity that I encourage everyone to participate in. Here are a few links to some of the contests this year:
There are many more annual contests and many sites dedicated to the art of peeps. Take some time and check them out today!
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Funny Saying Mug
Plays Well Funny Mug
Check out my funny mug. Plays well with self!
Clarence Cowboy
Clarence Cowboy
Clarence the Cowboy is looking out for his family. Guns don’t kill people. Dads with pretty daughters kill people! Check out this design.
Professional Cat Herder
Isn’t it wonderful that we even have a day for Cat Herders? I can’t count how many times I have worked on a project that I have felt like I was trying to herd cats.
From what I could find, it appears that the origins of the phrase came from the IT industry and the problems typically encountered when managing computer programmers. Some attribute the phrase “Managing senior programmers is like herding cats” to a Dave Platt (computer programmer). But he says that he was not the person who originally came up with the phrase. Funny how something like this becomes a part of our culture. The phrase has evolved to include more than just programmers. It now refers to a task that is extremely difficult or impossible to do, due to one or more variables constantly changing or out of your control. Most often, it refer to a group of people you can’t control.
Whenever I hear this phrase used, I think of the cat herding commercial. I think it is one of the funniest commercials I have ever seen. I have included the video in case you have forgotten it.
Celebrate the independence of all cats today (or maybe just the chaos in your life)!
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