[ I dig the irony of Chow setting up a contest that he knows is incredibly spammy and then making part of the rules be that you have to link the phrase “root of all evil” to his web site.  ] The root of all evil, John Chow is giving away a Nintendo Wii. To enter, all I have to do is write a blog post about it. So here you go.The contest is sponsored by 1234Pens.com. They make promotional pens. Sorry for the spam.  But my kids would dig a Wii.  Who wouldn’t?

Big week for celebrating silly holidays if you’re both a geek and a Shakespeare geek. Today is Pi Day.   Get it?  3/14?  Happy Pi Day, everybody! And tomorrow, of course, 3/15 is the Ides of March.  Beware! I should have planned to use my two floating holidays at work back to back.  I wonder if people would look at me funny?  You know, funnier than they usually do. (One of my children was born on August 24, and it crosses my brain everytime her birthday comes up that August is the 8th month and 8 evenly divides 24.  My oldest was born on 7/8, and my youngest was born on May 4, 2006.  If we lived in a country that did the dd/mm/yyyy thing he could have a truly geek 4/5/6 birthday.)  

This is actually pleasing to me as a Shakespeare geek.  Mental Floss posts an article entitled 14 Sentences About 14 Shakespeare Comedies, containing several little side comments like “you’ll need to know the comedies if you truly want to impress with your obscure knowledge” and “There now, feeling a little more like a genius already, aren’t we?” The problem is they made half a dozen or more mistakes in their summaries, and promptly got taken to task for it before I ever even got a chance to respond.  Hooray for more Shakespeare geeks in the world!  

How do you know you’re a Shakespeare geek?  Your ears perk up when the latest Cheerios commercial comes on, you know the one where the son compares his upcoming test on Shakespeare with his father’s upcoming cholesterol test?  And you’re sitting there staring at the tv waiting for them to mention more about the Shakespeare.   They don’t, and it is very disappointing. 🙂