So, how do you go about celebrating it? Well, help is at hand, dear reader! Read on:
Go watch Star Wars (again)
Yup, Geek Pride Day was founded to coincide with the release date of Star Wars: A New Hope. I know you don’t need much excuse to ring in sick to work and watch all six movies back to back, but at least you’re now honouring it. Or something. Not that George Lucas needs any more honouring.
(Seriously, have you ever see the interview Seth McFarlane did with him? He may as well have leapt into his lap and started licking his face. He’s just a bloke! GET OVER IT).
Go read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (again)
Yup, Geek Pride Day also coincides with International Towel Day, a day for Hitchhiker’s fans to go about their daily routines displaying a towel, as a sign of their affection for the series. Ok, even though I’m a fan I don’t quite get this one. However, it would be handy seeing as the weather’s so good today. It gives you something to sunbathe on!
Join your local role playing group
NOT LIKE THAT, you filth. I mean role playing games, your Dungeons and Dragons, and what have you. Get on the internet, I mean, you’re on it now, and go investigate what’s local to you. You might even make some new friends!
FUN FACT: I wouldn’t have the job I have now, if it wasn’t for the fact Matt and Monday Rich met a guy at the club they go to. So there you have it, playing D&D is good for your career. FACTS.
Abuse the internet for your own devious ends
Are you into something? These days, everything you could ever need to know about any given topic is on the internet. Need some info? It’s on Wikipedia. Need to obtain something obscure and apparently worthless? There’s eBay. Need to lay out your argument for Optimus Prime being the best Autobot? That’s what specialist forums are for.
If it weren’t for the internet, I probably would be killed about ten times over for relentlessly prattling about that thing that I need to stop talking about on here (IF ANYONE OUTBIDS ME ON THAT SNUZZLE I WILL CUT THEM, SWEAR TO GOD). It makes everyone’s life much more bearable.
Start collecting or getting into something
Are you into the Antiques Road Show? Trains? Collecting bottle caps? Then congratulations sir or madam, you are a geek. Please, let me invite you into our members only club, which is actually the size of Belgium since it so easy to be a geek. You’re into something in a big way? You, my friend, are a geek. Pull up a chair, have a cocktail (I recommend the Pina Colada, because apparently I never left the 1980’s).
It’s pretty awesome.
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