My Agenda.

I'm tired of trying to force friendships with people who don't share my interests. I want my nerd friendships back. I want people for whom a weekend of playing the Sims with the TV on in the background in the den while they sit there occasionally talking is on their personal short list of top weekend activities. Seriously. I once spent a very excellent Spring Break at the Outer Banks doing this. I don't want to lie about how much time I spend playing video games. I want to talk about Hellboy and the Hulk and Iron Man and Constantine and Frank Miller. I also want to talk about quantum physics and php vs. java vs. C. I want to get into arguments about Macs and PCs and use phrases like unix shell and telnet in common speech. I don't want to settle for gossiping about office politics and talking about the city and the weather and current events. Fuck current events I want to talk about the things I care about. NERD THINGS. I want to use the word tepid in a sentence without having people react like I just tried to pass off disestablishmentarianism off casually. To a certain extent I already have these friends its more that I want some replacement ones that live within a 15 mile radius of my current location and aren't related to me.

However...

I hate sci-fi nerds I don't wish to discuss Star Trek or Star Wars extended universe with anyone and I don't want to interact with anyone who has ever LARPed.

This may be to much to ask of chance meetings with friends of co-workers and roomates. So I have decided to embark on a plan to create these friends. I will prompt my non video gaming roomate to join me in a round of Wii sports. I will leave comic books (all 4 that I own) out "accidentally" for general perusal. I am however open to suggestions on how to behavior modify my office co-workers into talking about things I am interested in. Perhaps hijacking their browser settings so that their home page is now slashdot? Or kidnapping them and forcing them to come see Hellboy with me? All of these are good options.