9 out of 10 monkeys believe they are not behind glass

As a Geek (note the capital G), I have to maintain a fundamental duty to the following:

• To be rational and logical in an irrational, illogical world. (WWSD? What would Spock do?)
• To be a respectable general conversationalist in any scifi videogame, movie, book or general technology discussion. One must negotiate the information overload of today’s modern world.
• To hack. Hacking is not a crime.
• To fight against those that think usage rights are negotiable. DRM is fundamentally wrong, and will always be wrong. Fair use is not a crime.
• To support the creative works of others with Dollars, and support those that work hard to make content.
• To fight against those that would make videogames, or any creative content, a crime. Personal responsiblity is a for the parents to impart unto their children, and not the government’s duty.
• To watch and adore every Star Wars film, even though the three recent ones kinda suck balls. The same applies to Star Trek (even though some of those suck balls too).
• To sprinkle scifi references in my cursing. Like smeghead, nerfherder, shazbot, frak me, p’tahk, gorramit.
• To have more CPUs in my house than heartbeats.
• To have a computer integrated into my home theater system.
• To always play the latest video games and keep my “skillz” in check, regardless of how tired I am, how outside of my schedule it is, or how much grief my wife gives me.
• To provide Legos to all future generations.
• To respect that Geekdom is a pop culture subgroup. As such, it will be often misunderstood.
• Even though geekhood has many levels of dorkism, I must respect all fellow geeks no matter how far down on the dork scale they are. They may live in their parents’ basement collecting action figures, but they too love what I love, and that deserves some modicum of respect. Unless they think the breadth and width of their knowledge is infinitely greater and act holier than thou, and in that case, frak the smegheads.
• To realize that not all self proclaimed geeks are actually geeks. Like orgasms, some people fake it. And others are just plain dorks.

To these things I hold, and to these things, I protect.

So say we all.