{"id":979,"date":"2011-06-25T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2011-06-25T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T13:45:11","slug":"a-geek-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/979","title":{"rendered":"A geek confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a geek pretty much my entire life. I am a geek both at work and at home and am comfortable and, in fact, proud of it. Some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have built my own PC<\/li>\n<li>Built a Linux installation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxfromscratch.org\/\">from scratch<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Seen Star Wars, the original, in a theater, eight times<\/li>\n<li>I always worry about having the right cables available, just in case<\/li>\n<li>I have more screens in use or at-the-ready than I should at any given time<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been to <a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaire.com\/\">Maker Faire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That last one is where this confession is related to.<\/p>\n<p>I have one confession that I fear will lower my geek cred with all that know me:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen Doctor Who.<\/p>\n<p>There, I said it. At Maker Faire, we watched a talk by Adam Savage from <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/tv\/mythbusters\/\">MythBusters<\/a> and at the end, he was coaxed into performing an \u00fcber-geeky, go-go dance to the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2Qm-e00Scy0\">Dr. Who theme with ArcAttack!<\/a> It was a lot of fun but it reminded me of this significant lapse in my geek development.<\/p>\n<p>I know that the show is where the Tardis, Daleks, and the Sonic Screwdriver comes from. I just don&#8217;t really know what they are. I&#8217;d like to rectify that. The question is how does one start? The original series? The new one? Please comment below and help straighten me out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a geek pretty much my entire life. I am a geek both at work and at home and am comfortable and, in fact, proud of it. Some examples: I have built my own PC Built a Linux &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/979\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-geek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-fN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}