Justify Your Existence

Apparently 10 Things I Hate About You is now a TV show.

I have to agree with the article’s writer in that my first question when I heard about this was “Why?”. It’s all kind of random and bizarre. But I’ll probably watch the first episode anyway…

Horoscope Fail

From my astrology.com daily horoscope:

Dear Pisces,
Here is your horoscope for Thursday, January 29: Buy something big — or at least nice — for yourself, even if it means adding a bit of debt. You deserve it and should be able to handle it without owing too much to the banks for too long.

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Hmm.

Dear astrology.com,

I don’t appreciate your transparent attempts to get me to stimulate the economy by buying your “Free” Psychic Reading.

Hail to the geek

Last night I went to Teance with some friends, a specialty tea shop in Berkeley. On Wednesday nights they have a free tasting so we thought we’d go check it out. Got to taste some nice brews, and picked up some lichee red tea (yum!). A lot of the people who were there were regulars, who go to all the different events and could guess what type of tea we were drinking and what part of China it came from.

Total tea geeks, and I mean that in the best possible way.

And that, is what really separates us from the animals. Not our opposable thumbs, or higher cognitive abilities, or even all the cool shit we’ve built and created.

Nope, it’s our ability to completely and totally geek out about shit.

I love geeks. We’re awesome.

Ask me about Batman. No, seriously. Because I could talk about that guy for days.

Or Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series. Or the works of Douglas Coupland. Or Elliott Smith. Or trashy gay romance novels. Or song lyrics. Or 90′s pop culture.

Sure, most of these are useless, but it doesn’t matter because geeking out about them is fucking fun.

And nothing’s more exciting than the rush that comes from finding something new to geek out about. That special push that let’s me watch an entire TV season in less than a week or spending hours researching new keyboards.

So what do you geek out about? What are those things that probably take up too much of your time but you wouldn’t have it any other way because they bring you such a profound sense of glee?

Everyone’s a geek about something. Wear it like a badge of honor.

Own it.