Geek Girls?

I’ve been listening to the White and Nerdy song a lot late, perhaps too much lately. It’s so bad that I’m actually playing the stupid game; right now my record is 427 in Intermediate mode. Someone should just paint a large “L” on my forehead and be done with it. Oh but it doesn’t stop there. I did something Uber Nerdy yesterday. I went to a COMIC BOOK CONVENTION!!! I went to the CalgaryExpo and to be honest, I had an ok time. They were advertising it to be the “Biggest Comic and Multimedia” convention, in Western Canada. It’s was fairly big but I guess I was expecting more from 50,000 sq ft.

The show itself was pretty good. There was a lot of crap I could have bought, but I told myself “no”. There were some interesting panels including such guests as Bruce Timm (he co created Batman: the Animated series and a lot of cool stuff after that.) and Paul Dini, who wrote a lot of stuff with Bruce Tim ( and he was one of the writers for the first 2 seasons of Lost). Then there was (GEEK GEKK GEEK NERD NERD NERD GEEK GEEKK).

The thing that brought a mental smile to my face was the women who were there. Some of them were dressed up as Superheroes and Anime Characters, some were in normal attire. Some with their boyfriends, some were with other women, some where solo. The point is, THERE’S HOPE FOR ME YET!!!

I know I’ve gone on about this in the past, but who would have thought that there were SO MANY Females that had the same interests as me. I still remember being the social misfit and being made fun of because of my love for anime, and the geek culture in general, but now to see female geeks...HOLY SHIT!!!

Does this mean that geek is a gender neutral title now, or is there a secret name for the female geek? I did a Google search for female geek and I did find femalegeek.com, but when I went o the site, there was nothing, not even a “Under Construction” or a “404” page. I didn’t have much luck after that either. It’s almost like they’re hiding because they know that they are such a minority, but I know they’re out there. Married or single they exist. I saw them. Even semi famous ones like Gail Simone, who writes comic books, (too bad she doesn’t update her blog), and she’s even going to start writing Wonder Woman. A woman writing a comic book where the main character is a woman; who would have thought?

The good news in all this is that there is a woman out there who doesn’t think my interests and hobbies are CRAP. I remember hearing some dumb ass whining to her boyfriend about him standing in line at the local EB Games. Saying stuff about how videogames are a waste of time. I kept picturing myself clobbering her over a head with one of those Guitar Hero guitars. Now that would ever condone violence against women, but sometimes you have to scream “QUIT BEING A SELFISH BITCH!!!”. There was another incident long ago where some girl was in a comic book shop and she said out loud, “Why do you read stupid comics” At that point she had everyone staring at her. At least she figured out that what she had said that time was dumb.

So now I have a new quest, to find the elusive geek girl. I know they exist; I just need to find one. I might even shoot a documentary about it one day. I wonder if I can get the National Geographic Society to sponsor my expedition, but that’s a post for another time.

My 2 Bytes

The Clip of the week (White and Nerdy)

Photo Friday (A Man with Talent)

My 2 Bytes

Goals, smoals, I was TAGGED.

Twice in one day? What kind of man do you think I am? You think that I have enough brain power for twice in one day? I guess I do because here I am. Ok Lady Vics (you know I like how that sounds, I may just keep using that name for her) tagged me with this one, and she was tagged by someone named Vixen. Ouch, I got to love that name. *Pant Pant*. Ok sorry about that, I’m back to normal…HEY BABY !!!**WOLF WHISTLE**.

I’m ok, please relax, I’m back to normal. Anyway I’ve been tagged with listing 5 to 10 goals with an explanation. I actually like this idea since it forces me to think and despite popular belief, I love to think.

1. Perfect Physical Specimen. I admit that I’m aiming a little high, but I want to be physically fit. You know about those guys with a six pack? Well I have 2 kegs. It’s not pretty. Were talking man boobs here. When I walk backwards, my ass beeps like a garbage truck. I look like the ‘before’ guy in those diet commercials. The good news is that the place I’m moving into next week has an indoor pool and a workout room. I’m going to start with the pool for awhile, on a daily basis. I figure an hour a day will help me on my quest for BUNS OF STEEL

2. Financial Independence. There’s a plan for this too. I don’t want to reveal the details yet, but expect me to blog about it in the next few months. I will say this, working for someone else BLOWS CHUNKS. I feel that I’m more qualified to decide on how much monkey I should be making, not some “pointy haired boss” who sits behind some desk. I will elaborate about this in the future.

3. Lots and lots of SEX. I’m a single guy and I would like to mean a single woman and have a meaningful relationship. I want someone I can confide in and hopefully she can confide with me as well. I’m looking for someone to share my life with. That special someone I want to be with for the rest of my life. OH and have LOTS AND LOTS OF SEX !!!

4. To give back some of what I have received. I like the idea of giving back to the community, either volunteering my time or using my money to bring some good in this community. A few days ago I saw a news story about a single mom with 3 kids who had to move out of her rented home because her landlord was planning to remodel and sell the house. She was working hard, but she was only getting by, and she was unable to come up with a damage deposit for a new home. A day after the story aired some Calgarian had sent her some money to cover the damage deposit. People in this city do give back and I want to be one of those people.

5. Get that BIG ASS TV. This is a very short term goal, considering that I’m planning on purchasing a 40 inch LCD TV next week, when I move. I’m gonna hook this up to my PC as well and this is going to be my main monitor for TV/DVD/Videogame playing/Computer viewing. The only problem is if I was living with a ‘special’ someone, there is no way in hell I would EVER get away with this.

6. I’m leaving on a Jet plane. I want to travel. I want to go back to New York. It’s been a long time since I was there, (pre 9/11) and I feel a need to go back to that city. I feel a need to go and pay my respects, even though it’s just a hole with a bunch of construction workers. I also have the need to visit people in St. John’s Newfoundland. I want to meet this Mitch guy, and make sure he’s a good guy. I want to fly to Manchester UK and tell Stef to pull his pants up and quit showing the crack of his ass to everyone, and if he doesn’t, I’m sticking a small Canadian Flag there and claiming it for the great White North. I need to go Vermont and meet a Girl and her Dog. That dog needs a tummy rub and I’m make sure that she get her tummy rub. I need to Texas and help a girl in a tank top, and underwear get back into her apartment, as well I need to see newborn kitties. I also need to fly to Toronto to see a woman about a Goat. We didn’t connect the last time I was there, perhaps next time I’ll have better luck. I need to go to Iowa and see if a student needs lessons in learning to drive in the winter. I need to fly to Singapore to find out which way the water goes when you flush the toilet. I want to see someone in BC who’s pleased that strangers are checking out her butt. I’ve meet so many good people online and I would love for the opportunity to meet them and talk face to face (after I get my BUNS OF STEEL).

Now I must decide who I will pass this onto.

1. Stef, because I love the idea of him get all grumpy, though I am concerned about him cupping his ‘boys’ when he thinks.

2. Erin she needs time to think about things like this.

3. Elmo Kitty Because she tagged me before NAAA!!!!

4. Letti because she needs a break for watching the baby kitties.

5. Dan, because the last time I was tagging people he said “Why didn’t you tag me?”. So you’re tagged now.

My 2 Bytes

Have I mentioned how much i hate MySpace?

I hate MySpace. I really hate MySpace. I think MySpace is a piece of crap. The problem is that I’m in the minority on this. Also the fact that I avoid MySpace like the plague might be one of the reasons why I’m not “getting any”. Mashable, a news site about Social networking is reporting that people on MySpace are most likely to “hook up” Oh crap.

I remember telling someone over the phone, not to meet up with MySpace people. How guys were just hitting on her and wanted to … you get my point. I guess this is why MySpace is the site, most likely to get you lucky. I looked my the list of social networks and I found that Youtube , Twitter, and Digg are really low. Of course I have an account on all of those networks, but not MySpace.

This actually makes sense now that I think about it. There are some really dumb people on MySpace. I remember there was some guy who stole someone’s cellphone and he was taking pictures with it, and the pictures were being e-mailed to the phone’s owner. The guy even did a sex video with it. This moron had a MySpace page.

I’ve always thought that MySpace pages are ugly as hell and when you end up at on a MySpace page, you get blasted with music, unless you remembered to turn down your speakers. The web tools for MySpace have got to be from 1998. However people are still using MySpace (even though a lot of people have moved to Facebook) and I guess they’re hooking up.

So it is just me or has MySpace become a seedy bar for people to hool up?

My 2 Bytes.