At Wired.com the Geek Dad has composed a list of the top 10 annoying habits of a geeky spouse. (His wife helped). Alas, for poor John Austin punning topped the list.
Others include:
2. Using “frak,” or Klingon, or both, instead of regular swear words
3. Weird or over-the-top ways of celebrating mainstream holidays
4. Dissecting movies
5. Wearing obscurely geeky T-shirts to “normal” places6. Requiring extra room in the house for geeky things 7. Geeky toys and decorations can be hard to explain to kids (plush vorpal bunny?)
8. Looking up information while a discussion/argument is still in progress
Uh. Do you or your significant other have any of these habits? Are there others you’d add to the list?
Cabbage Boy on March 17 at 10:01 a.m.
uh-oh. Was it wrong to tape cotton to my dog’s mouth on Easter morning?
1, 3, 4, 5, 8. Are those bad things?
Cindy_H on March 17 at 10:40 a.m.
Personally, I find 2 rather endearing.
JamesBond on March 17 at 1:21 p.m.
What’s an obscurely geeky t-shirt?
Cindy_H on March 17 at 1:32 p.m.
@JB: Here’s where I shop for the geeks on my list: http://www.zazzle.com/geek+tshirts
JamesBond on March 17 at 2:05 p.m.
Whew! I have a veritable walk-in closet full of black rock band t-shirts, mostly metal, but some punk and classic rock bands. I am relieved to see these not on the geeky t-shirt website!!!
Liz on March 17 at 6:15 p.m.
1,4, 8 Guess I am not the sci fi computer geek. More like a word geek or plot geek. And yes, I used to have the concert t shirts.