Geek alphabet

The Geek Alphabet: a delightful picture book for nerds, made from CC-licensed images:

A is for Away Team, where you should never wear red (mild mannered photographer)
B is for Binary, 1s and 0s in your head (jpstanley)
C is for Cosplay, making cons an awesome place
D is for Doctor, who keeps changing face (great beyond)
E is for Emoticons, that tell you what we're feeling (neal gillis)
F is for Flickr, whose photos we are "stealing" (tricky)
G is for Gadgets, the way to our heart (slipstreamjc)
H is for Hardware, I took it apart! (jurvetson)
I is for iEverything, love it or hate it (dan dickinson)
J is for Japan, we're glad Nintendo invaded (oscar mota)
K is for Keyboard, we love every letter (andrew*)
L is for Leias, the more the better! (koadmunkee)

The Geek Alphabet (Thanks, Charles!)

(Image: Best. Cake. Evar., a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2.0) image from donsolo's photostream)

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Anonymous

It would have been much better if there wasn’t gratuitous cleavage. Unless you’re going to tell us that there are no Lukes, or any such thing as non-skimpy womens cosplay outfits.
Nadreck

Hey, that gear in the “H is for Hardware, I took it apart!” is at least partially a Betamax VCR!! Well done kids. I know from the personal experiences I’ve had of keeping my Betamaxi going how hard it is to do anything with those suckers. They were one of the first big household gadgets to be assembled by Japanese Robots: whose dexterity was clearly more than that of carbon life forms even back then.
Donald Petersen

I’m glad nobody was struck with an axe this time. I had nightmares for years.
Halloween Jack

I’ve seen a version of this where J was for Joss Whedon, and the illo showed him, nude.

Yeah, sorry Browncoats, but fuck that.
CapnMarrrrk

While like and agree with Geek Alphabet, and I know it’s not a competition, I think this is the best Alphabet ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8pxaxxReo
Anonymous

Ray Bradbury and Pat Fear told me
“R is for Rocket”
and
“S is for Space”
dhalgren

My only ‘scratch my head’ moment is Q is for Quilting and other geeky craft.

Since when is quilting geeky? Did I miss the memo somewhere? Oh so you quilt a star wars themed quilt or the picture has Mario on it. That makes it ‘geeky’?

I would have to say 100% of the people I have known and know that quilt are 100% non-geeks.

Now if you quilt and you quilt let’s say a Robotron themed quilt – I would accept that you have the potential of being a geek who likes to guilt. That does not make quilting geeky. Actually I wouldn’t call someone who likes Robotron a geek either. If you played Robotron in an arcade in the 1980′s, that doesn’t make you a geek – that makes you a teenager in the freaking 1980′s.

Now if you have various emulators on your computer, laptop, whatever device you silly kids have today – and you have all the old arcade games, and Nintendos, and Sega games, and Atari 2600 games running on emulators – you are one step closer to geekdom but hardly a full blown geek. Now if it was the 1980′s and you had your Apple II Plus, Commodore 64, what have you, and you were playing the various Ultimas or Wizardry’s on your computer – yes you were a geek because well 1) you have a computer in the early 1980′s = megageekdom. 2) you most likely double sided your floppy discs yourself by cutting the old square out on the other side 3) you never paid for a computer game that you owned because every friend you know at the time would pass around floppy discs so by the time one person had the game everyone had the game a day or two later.
4)the first game you ever bought for the Apple II Plus was Ultimate IV the day it came out because you didn’t want to wait.

What was my point? Oh yea. Quilting is not geeky.

I think I need some caffeine.
TimDrew

cool- except for one **wee** thing: “A is for Away Team”; the term Away Team was introduced in STTNG, not the original series (they beamed down, but it was never called “away team”). In STTNG, red is the colour of command uniforms (the colour to avoid would have been yellow…)

That said, the world can never have enough Leias ;)