What's your geek button?

[retro]

I have a theory that everyone is a geek about something. I believe that everyone has got a passion that they could talk for hours about.

Whether it's sci-fi, soap operas, rock music, reality TV, trains or football, what's your passion?

I like my sci-fi, computer games and motor sport. What's your obsession?

[gremcint]

where the hell do I even start, I don't think I have a geek button I think I have a normal button for the few things I'm not a geek over.

I can talk to you about books, movie, fantasy, scifi, television, stargate, magic the gathering, board games, comics, superheroes, roleplaying games, computer games.

[strawbabies]

I can sit there forever talking to people about dogs.

[firecat88]

My geek buttons include ghosts, Dresden Files, Tamora Pierce books, books in general, Lord of the Dance (including and especially the Feet of Flames productions), Riverdance, and all forms of Celtic music. Oh! And old kids' shows from the '90s that people either absolutely loved or had no idea existed (literally no middle ground most of time)

[Jay 2K Winger]

I have so many geek buttons. Pro wrestling is probably one of my biggest, because I could go on forever about it.

[MoonCat]

Books, especially SF and fantasy. Gemstones and beading. Writing. Especially writing.

Lord of the Dance (including and especially the Feet of Flames productions), Riverdance

Love that show. We were fortunate to see the original production of Lord of the Dance with Michael Flatley in Toronto some years ago.

[firecat88]

Love that show. We were fortunate to see the original production of Lord of the Dance with Michael Flatley in Toronto some years ago.

The original?? With Daire-freakin-Nolan? *screams and faints*

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Writing, most definitely. IRL I really don't have anyone to discuss it with, though.

Television shows, I can discuss if it's one I keep up with. Same with classic miniseries (I've seen quite a few of them over the years.) Now if you bring up The Man From UNCLE in particular, I could probably run you off talking about that one.

I'm also not below discussing housework or cats either.

Music is another one, especially 60's and 70's music (disco anyone?)

[mathnerd]

Math. Raise your hand if this surprises you.

[JustaCashier]

Buses. Mostly City Transit Buses and Inter-City/Tour type buses, and fancy buses like what Entertainers travel in. School buses to a much lesser degree, (unless Classic, in the same sense as Classic Cars).

This is a Geekiness that many, if not most people will go about, so I have historically hidden it somewhat, and only somewhat nervously and embarrassingly would mention it.

It doesn't have the Romance of Trains, and I admit Trains are actually cooler, but buses are where my heart is at.

But, with the wonderfulness that is the Internet, and with FB Bus Fan Pages, and other Sites, the embarrassment is waning.

It also helps that my Bus System has a Volunteer Driven (mostly current and former/retired Employees of the Agency) Historic Fleet, where they have saved one representative Coach from each Make/Model the System and it's predecessor have run over many decades, and they do a few Excursion each year, mostly Summertime, on some of the Coaches that are operational. These trips are usually 4 hours long, and are generally in my City, and some Surrounding Communities within probably 20-30 miles.

Also, I have been engaging more with fellow Geeks on these trips in the last couple of years, and between that, and discussions on the FB Pages, realize there are Bus Geekier folks out there than I! I can name a year, Make, and occasionally Model Name of most current and past Coaches in our System, but some of these guys can rattle off the entire drivetrain Brands and Model Numbers!


Mike

[mathnerd]

I would have bugged you incessantly if I knew you geeked out about buses! I taught math in the inner city, and I used the city bus system to teach my systems of equations/matrix lessons. We did all sorts of things from creating new bus routes to determining the cost of keeping X number of various models/ages of buses in service vs. purchasing new ones. Having really good data on operation upkeep costs would have been awesome!

[Gilhelmi]

Biblical studies, World Religions, Anime, Star Trek, Military history, World History, and Machining theory.

I could almost do a doctorate level dissertation on World Religions. I particularly find various Religious beliefs fascinating. But I love History so much too, I go to as many different museums as possible. You can find some very nice ones in small towns, if you know where to look. The great centerpiece of all this is that I can relate most things to an episode of Star Trek in order to explain most things.

[AnaKhouri]

Writing. I'm a professional author, so yeah. And what goes hand-in-hand with that is...

Books. Since I haven't been working at the bookstore so often, I had to join reddit JUST to go on /r/books so I could talk to people about books.

The supernatural, conspiracy theories, aliens, weird news, etc. I have a perpetual subscription to the Fortean Times and am getting a membership the Coast to Coast AM website so I can delve even deeper into the world of the weird.

[bhskittykatt]

Anatomy. Going to school to make physical therapy assisting a career, so this works out well.

Also, hiking. I recently read an article about the right and wrong ways to hold trekking poles, and I looked at the pics and was like "No shit, what kind of f**king moron would think the wrong way was the right way?" and I was getting ready to rant about stupid people who can't figure out trekking poles on FB but stopped myself because I realized I was probably the only one who cared.

Sort of related, but I will totally go on about American pikas to anyone who will listen, and when I hear them on hikes I will shamelessly meep back at them (which annoys the husband to no end). Not a major chronic geek-out there, but I'll go through phases.


I also have a BFF who is totally into sounds. Like we'll go hiking across a talus field (read: lots of loose rocks), and she'll clack different types of rocks together to make different types of sounds and just totally has like a sound fetish or something.

[Victory Sabre]

If you look in the Booze Club thread, you'll see one of mine.