Category: Geekitude

My brother and I went to see Pacific Rim last Friday. It was predictable and trope-ridden, but it was also AWESOME! The fight scenes between the robots and monsters were amazing. They even managed to keep the Braveheart speeches to a minimum.

Because we went to the Cinebistro, which does seat side dinner service, my brother and I had to be there when the ads started.

Brother: Why do they have to have such boring ads at the beginning?

Ads: Next we take a look at the new ABC show, “Agents of SHIELD.”

Brother: I accept your advertisement.

The pithy comment comes from my brother:

“Steampunk – when goths discovered the color brown!”

Don’t know where he got that from, but it made the table erupt in laughter.

My niece and nephew are being raised steeped in geek culture. It’s a natural outgrowth considering that many of the adult influences surrounding them are familiar to rabid with the geek culture. We even speak to them using geek references and things we find amusing, because we are geeks. Every so often, during the children’s interaction with mainstream society, we remember that we do not necessarily live int the same culture as most people. Hence the interaction between my five-year-old niece and her kindergarten teacher.

Setting: Niece is in front of the teacher after biting a classmate on the playground.

Teacher: Do you have anything to say?

Niece: I’m sorry, and I won’t do it again because cannibalism is wrong.

Both children had been informed of this fact after biting one another. I don’t think any of us expected her to extrapolate that out to the rest of the world. I swear those kids are going to get us pulled in front of a shrink one day.