Your Geek Culture Update
This week on your geek culture update I present a 100' tower of legos! Why? To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this amazing toy of course! It was built this past weekend at Legoland Windsor which beats the one built in Toronto last summer which beat the one made in the California Legoland earlier last summer. Clearly it's on in the competitive world of erecting tall things out of legos! All of which are Geek King Approved.
Please feel free to send me nominees for the Geek King Seal of Approval. This concludes this royal announcement.
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ironic1 on May 7, 2008 06:32 AM | Permalink
Comments
Don't get me wrong, I find these Geek Update articles enjoyable and interesting, but the frequency of your posts along with the assertiveness in which you proclaim your reign as King remind me of DDD. And we don't want to get him riled up again. Maybe you could leave the crown on the mantle and just post your articles under a "Geek King" category or something? Just my two cents. Again, I do enjoy your posts!
Posted by: Ferg Turdeson | May 7, 2008 07:53 AM
As part of my candidacy for king I promised to post something geeky to PDD on a weekly basis. I don't have to use the GKSoA but I thought it would be fun and silly and provide a through-line for the 52 weeks. If that is riling people I'll be happy to drop it but to keep my promise to the geek masses, I'll continue my geeky posts, which, if you look at my history on PDD, doesn't really differ from what I have been doing for the last 4 years.
Posted by: ironic1 | May 7, 2008 08:18 AM
I look forward to these weekly doses of King-approved geekiness. :-)
Posted by: Mary | May 7, 2008 08:49 AM
It's nice to see someone take a title like King and do something good with it. Kudos!
Posted by: yecart | May 7, 2008 09:04 AM
I, too, appreciate being kept up-to-date about geek news. And just like Queen Amidala, this royal figure was elected, so there you go.
Long live the king!
Posted by: Beverly | May 7, 2008 09:06 AM
Hey, you're the King. Who cares what the serfs say?
Posted by: taqmara | May 7, 2008 09:09 AM
taqmara = my alter ego. she is way cooler than me.
Posted by: tamara | May 7, 2008 09:13 AM
Wow, that's the first time I have ever been compared to Queen Amidala and it probably will be the last.
I will savor this moment.
Mmmmmm.... momenty goodness...
Posted by: ironic1 | May 7, 2008 09:49 AM
I enjoy your posts and look forward to them. Keep on, keepin' on, I say. It's good to be the King.
Posted by: Tomasz | May 7, 2008 10:40 AM
Danny Does Duluth posted on a weekly basis to promote only himself.
Ironic1 posts on a weekly basis to promote all of geek-kind.
Keep truckin' Geek King!
Posted by: Bad Cat! | May 7, 2008 10:50 AM
On another note, and one related to the post, I once had a vet that gave you the option of paying for services with either legos or casg when he took care of your pet. The lego displays in his office were amazing. It was much more fun to pay him in Legos as you felt a part of his creation.
Posted by: ruthie | May 7, 2008 04:34 PM
Paying in legos rocks, Ruthie! I'd go to that vet in a heartbeat.
People say that when you look back on childhood Christmases what you remember is the love. Yeah, love schmove. What I remember is getting a 1 foot cube box of legos when I was about 10 and that was probably the coolest present ever.
Posted by: ironic1 | May 7, 2008 08:36 PM
God Save the King!
Hell, our old king was more pro-active as past royalty, and ironic is even more so, gracing us with his geekish wisdom regularly...
If it were me (and I usually go all out with such endeavors)...I'd even go as far as to say that there should be a "State of the Geek" given on a semi monthly basis.
frankly, as a CNG (Certified Non Geek) I think it's a hoot.
Posted by: zra. | May 8, 2008 06:18 AM