I wonder if the current generation of about-to-be-born geeklings will appreciate how awesome it is to have geekmoms and geekdads?
My son Dean is going to be out of beta in just over 3 months and I've
got some preparing to do. I've never understood why parent stick the
crap bumper stickers about their six year olds making the honor list in a
grade where bladder control is part of the curriculum. So I decided to
make some stickers that I would be proud to brag about to the world.
There are others, and they are awesome. Please go look at them, now. I fully expect to find these in a pack at Think Geek sooner than later.
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Wow, that is so, like, geeky!
Hawesome. As the father of a kindergartener, I’m dreading the appearance of the honor roll bumper sticker in the next few years. Maybe I can head him off with one of these. It might even make our minivan cool. Er, for *very* geeky values of cool, at least.
Epic! I hope my 2.0 are as geeky as I am one day. Will definately not mind if they surpass my geekyness 🙂 As a daughter of a now Geek-adjacent mom, I,love when out of the blue she busts out a little bit of geek trivia or recognizes a quote someone blurts out.
I so want these. My 2.0 are ubergeeky.
Those are very cool… I’d probably want one that said “My child won D&D”.
Awesomesauce.
Hey, Wil, did you know you were in today’s New York Times crossword puzzle (9/9/10)?
This reminds me of this… http://tinyurl.com/38msxe3
As an aside, the director of the HP Lovecraft Film Festival (http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/) heard about the Gamma World game and said that he’d love to have you as a guest at HPL & put The Curse on the program. I realize it’s a longshot, but if you feel like coming back to Portland in October let me know & I’ll put you in touch.
The Curse is something I'd like to just forget ever happened. It was a terrible movie, and an even worse experience to film.
I have to say that I haven’t seen it, and on that recommendation I won’t go rushing out there. (Hmm, so in the Lovecraft theme, it’s a Movie Man Was Not Meant To See?)
Sorry to bring up an unpleasant memory!
They will appreciate it if we teach them, Will. Lead the way, sir. Lead the way.
I got one for my daughter that says: all your base are belong to my daughter
They will appreciate it if we teach them, Will. Lead the way, sir. Lead the way.
My wife is fond of “My parents went to a planet with no bi-lateral symmetry and all I got was this stupid F shirt.”
Sadly it’s kinda difficult to implement on a t-shirt.
That's really, really funny. Please give your wife a Sci-Five for me.
bumper sticker
“My child knows Wheaton’s Law, no Judge Judy for me”.
“I survived the Tomb Of Horrors and all I got was this Kid”
I just popped in to say I’m experiencing Radio Free Burrito withdrawal. Here’s hoping for Wil to down a couple of Nuke Colas and a sufficient number of Rad-Away tablets to complete this endeavor. 🙂 Or when he has enough time/energy/creative inclination.
He mentioned in his last Rhettro he is desperate to do one but is being pulled in twelvety different directions by projects.
I await the next too.
side note if anyone hasnt I cannot reccomend highly enough the just a geek audio book from LULU the star trek tour had me in tears.
The sheer emotion in that sections reading left me emotionally drained, in a good way.
It was one of the best audio books I ever got ranked with hitchhikers and the hobbit bbc audio books.
such a roller coaster.
If any RFB addicts have not got that I reccomend it as a filler you get a lot of bang for your buck
“is being pulled in twelvety different directions by projects”
Which is a good thing. The world at large seems to be getting the “Wil is in demand” message. 🙂
your not wrong.
question can the input of Wil = Each mention of Wil means big bang 2 probability in PAX prime approaches 1
I think I need to get that “saved the princess” one for my mom. Though she never really appreciated how cool that was.
“Dejafrag: the sensation that your kid keeps killing you in the same place every time you respawn”
That’s a shame…my then-fiance now-wife found it while browsing Netflix, and we both really enjoyed it. Sure, it was campy, but it was still a lot of fun. What about it made it such a pain in the ass to film?
Jane White is Sick and Twisted is still, by far, the greatest piece of media you have ever been a part of. Seriously. That movie holds “legendary” status in our house, and is even used as a “test” for new friends.
I have proof my son is my 2.0: I have aspergers, he has autism. Between us, being actual hard-wired geeks, the level of geeking out is off the space charts.
So now I’m thinking how to put this on a sticker. Ideas anyone?
Reminds me a little of this Far Side strip, “Hopeful Parents.”
http://www.decimation.com/markw/2007/09/18/hopeful-parents/
The joys of being married to an astrophysicist, you get exposed to some really weird humor. Maybe I'll make a shirt like this for RinCon.
I wonder if the current generation of about-to-be-born geeklings will appreciate how awesome it is to have geekmoms and geekdads?
I married into a gamer family, Wil.
When I met my wife, after I had recovered my jaw from the floor realizing her knowledge of Marvel Comics and some other geeky things was putting me to shame, I found out that her parents used to attend cons and roll dice for D&D back in the day.
Why they don’t now is a long story, but they still have plenty of geek cred.
Years later my wife and I were teaching our now 8-year old daughter how to play D&D, my in-laws took her to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). When she was a baby she knew almost all the characters in the Ranma 1/2 series.
I am sure she will come to fully honor the awesomeness if she hasn’t already, and maybe drag her little brother along.