{"id":35,"date":"2009-04-20T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.allegedlyinteresting.com\/2009\/04\/geekology.html"},"modified":"2009-04-20T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T06:17:00","slug":"geekology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Geekology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend recently asked me &#8220;What is Geek Chic?&#8221;, by which I assume he means &#8216;What do geeks think is awesome?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I answered with the following:<br \/>(In no particular order)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast internets<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Gaming<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pennyarcademerch.com\/pat080101.html\">Mainstream games that they are good at<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Obscure references to geeky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts-apparel\/unisex\/popculture\/9644\/\">movies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts-apparel\/unisex\/popculture\/b732\/\">books<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pennyarcademerch.com\/pat070411.html\">games<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts-apparel\/unisex\/popculture\/a5a2\/\">music<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts-apparel\/unisex\/sciencemath\/98a2\/\">science<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Ninjas<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/penny-arcade.com\/\">Penny Arcade<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Star Wars\/Trek<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Gaming-literate musicians like <a href=\"http:\/\/frontalot.com\/index.php\/\">MC Frontalot<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Nerf Weapons<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/\">Thinkgeek<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.net\/\">Wil Wheaton<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Zombies<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">XKCD<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Keyboard Shortcuts<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Hating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Thompson_%28attorney%29\">Jack Thompson<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Pirates<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Memes<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/2009\/04\/geekology.html\">Lists of things<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Recursion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Can you add any more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend recently asked me &#8220;What is Geek Chic?&#8221;, by which I assume he means &#8216;What do geeks think is awesome?&#8221;. I answered with the following:(In no particular order) Fast internets Gaming Mainstream games that they are good at Obscure references to geeky movies, books, games, music or science Ninjas Penny Arcade Star Wars\/Trek Gaming-literate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=35\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geekology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}