Wedding Tables

As a final note on the wedding preparation, the table plan:

Figuring out who will sit where was one of the most difficult parts. It think we struck a good balance in no small part because of my awesome wife's skills.

But, beyond her ability to seat people well, she came up with the idea of not simple using table numbers, but having names and short bios of famous scientists, geeks, and geek icons! She's awesome.

Here are our table listings:

• Alan Turing
• Bill Gates
• Bruce Campbell
• Gary Gygax
• Joss Whedon
• Linus Torvalds
• Marie Curie
• Stephen Colbert
• Stephen Hawking
• Steve Jackson
• Weird Al Yankovich
• William Shatner

We received many positive comments on the idea! It was so much fun picking good pictures. I think the Shatner one above (holding a Phaser Rifle from the pilot episode) was a great choice.

Trekkie Geeks?

So, Savage Chickens has posted a cartoon for you to determine if you're a Trekkie.

It's amusing, but my first response when reading it was that Qapla' is spelt with an apostrophe. I noticed a comment to that effect burried fairly low down, appearently few others noticed, or cared to comment. Amatures!

(For you non-geeks, Qapla' is Klingon for "success", and is a word that is pretty much used for any occasion, saying hello, saying goodbye, saying goodluck, saying congratulations, etc.)

Geekiness: Geek Test and Geek Code

So, I seem to score higher on the Geek Test every time I take it, which I guess proves that my life is a continuing expedition of geekiness. Anyhow, taking the test tonight scored me a 54.04339%, ranking me as a super geek. I guess my years as a comic book store employee paid off.

Anyhow, as an addition to taking the test, I decided to figure out my current Geek Code, as it's been quite a few years. I have to say, quickly, that the Geek Code is really starting to get out of date. X-Files and Babylon 5 have been off the air for some time, though I still love to watch B5. Further, when the Macintosh options include, "Macs suck. All real geeks have a character prompt," it's dating itself to pre-Mac OS X. Also, the sheer number of USENET related geek-ratings. The code is definitely in need of an update. Anyhow, I'll still post my code for kicks.

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GCS/C d-(--) s+:- a- C++$ UL>++ P+ L+ E-(--) W++ N o-- K w(+) O---- M- V? PS++@ PE-(+) Y PGP- t++ 5+++ X- R++ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h--- r++ y+++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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