National Geek Day

There are times when, even during a separation, you just know you married the right person. His brand of crazy immediately makes you smile. And, your type of nuttiness makes sense in his world. The love-bug and I came to that convergence the other day. He sent me the following via email from the other side of the world:

“In observance of National Geek Day, I wrote code to generate Haiku. Used it once to produce the Haiku below. Then, having served it’s purpose, I ritually deleted it.

Secretive penguin
Ready dragonfly by coin
Furl greeting”

I asked him how difficult it was. He told me it took nine lines of computer code and 75 words selected randomly from the dictionary with one, two, and three syllables to generate that Haiku. For him, that means it took very little time. I love that he crossed from his Geeky world of computers and engineering (as he always says, “You can’t spell GEEK without Double E!” For those of you unfamiliar with the reference, he means you can’t spell the word geek without the two E’s that start the words Electrical Engineer…and he thinks I’m a dork!) into my Geeky world of words. How cool that you can use one side of the brain to generate something so beautiful to be appreciated by the other side of the brain.

I will now combine some photos, a drawing by Robert Seymour, and some clipart with some visual effects to generate a pictogram of his Haiku - because I am that dorky!







(It may be difficult to tell, but that last is a white flag with the word Welcome on it, and it has been stretched into a kaleidescope effect. I liked how it turned out!)

Hmm, I think, perhaps, my peculiarities complement his.

And I celebrated National Geek Day in my own special way. I honored my addiction to sewing pairs of 80’s Hammer pants. I can’t help it! (Can't touch this!) Every few years or so, I’m overwhelmed by the need to create multiple pairs of these fabulous trousers, and this week’s Geek Day was the perfect excuse! (As if I needed one! :->) I just cut some out of white fabric with pink and brown leopard spots. They’re perfect and wonderful and ridiculous – and I threatened to meet him at the airport wearing them. He knows better than to be embarrassed by any of my get-ups. He’d just be exhausted by now. And, hey, turns out you can spell GEEK without “Costume Designer,” but why bother?!

Have I said lately that I loved the 80’s?

Well, I know I have said I love the hubby and I know he loves me enough to generate a Haiku for me.

(Let’s just hope he loves me enough to be seen in public with me in my Hammer pants! Otherwise it'll be a long walk home for him! ;->)

Here’s to kooky couple-dom!

Love, Peace, and Haiku Writing to you all!