This week’s comic is loosely based on a real story. A couple of weeks ago, we gathered up a group of friends and decided to take a road trip to a theme restaurant that serves massive amounts of food, like ten pounds of steak over a bed of french fries slathered with gallons of gravy.
Healthy food, you know.
Anyhootie, we programmed the GPS with the destination using the always trusty Google Maps and we were on our way. And on our way…and on our way. Our perilous trek took almost three hours, all the while the GPS cheerly promised we’d get there in “10 more minutes.” And while we didn’t have to drive through the demented dreams of a surrealist master, we did have to drive through barely paved roads high up the mountains, with no security barriers but the memorials of the dead who had perished there as recently as the week before.
But we did get there, and the food was fantastic. We had a great time stuffing ourselves silly with dead cow. After the meal, instead of using the GPS, we asked for directions for the way back.
We arrived home 30 minutes later, after cruising at 55 miles per hour through a brand-spanking new two lane highway.
And there was much rejoicing.
Cheers!
Pete
April 22nd, 2009
I don’t know what is geekier, writing a webcomic about geeks or actually being selected “Geek of the Week.”
This week, Pete has been named “Adorkable Geek of the Week” by the blog aptly named Adorkable Geek. He has yet to figure out whether to feel honored or not. 
Thanks to the crew behind Adorkable Geek for this honor.
And let’s all type a big w00t to Pete, shall we!
March 2nd, 2009
Our friend qurgh HoD has taken it upon himself to take our comic strips and translate them into tlhIngan Hol. (That’s Klingonese for all of you ignorant pahtaks.) We fully support this idea (after all, is there anything more geeky that a comic about nerds being translated into Klingon?!? I think not! Nerdgasm time!) and are giving qurgh his own gallery in the Fan Page section, which will be updated regulary. Below you can check out some of his work! Thanks qurgh!
February 23rd, 2009
Just in time for our anniversary celebration in two weeks, our Facebook fanpage has reached 100 fans! We want to thank all these good people who took a couple of minutes of their hectic Facebook lives (between rounds of Tetris Sprint and Bejeweled Blitz!) to show their support to our webcomic and to all our hard work.
Thanks for being a part of our family week after week!
February 8th, 2009
Hi all! We bid you welcome to the new TWATGEEK.COM! We’ve migrated to a platform we all feel comfortable and happy with (no more manual HTML coding! Yaaay) and at last we’re out of beta! With this move also comes a few changes.
We’re abandoning our old graphical RSS feed for a brand new RSS feed. So, if you were receiving the weekly comic via RSS, please switch to this new one. If you don’t, you’ll be wondering why the Geeks have the same adventure week after week.
Just in case you are wondering, Geek Feed will remain open for business. It will now be a separate, sister blog to the webcomic and it will continue to give you the latest in geek news and nerd commentaries. However, we will no longer write TWATGeek related posts at Geek Feed. All comic related posts will be posted here, on Teh Fine Print. Remember, you can follow Geek Feed using this RSS feed.
We are also taking this oportunity to announce that you can now order signed copies of your favorite comic strips. So, if you really enjoyed one of our comics or if you just want to help us out with server costs, you can order a print from us and we’ll happily sign it and send it your way!
Thank you for being part of The World According to Geek’s family week after week. We sure appreciate having you with us!
February 2nd, 2009
As many of you guys know, last week’s comic strip was based on Pete’s Twitter addiction and his following of certain celebrities’ tweets. The comic turned out pretty nice and Pete proudly tweeted it forward. Well, to our surprise LeVar Burton, one of the aforementioned celebrities, re-tweeted it and thanked us for “the comic love”. Needless to say, this made us all extremely happy and proud, and in a case of art-imitates-life-imitates-art, we had our own nerdgasms. The coolness doesn’t stop there though, thanks to the “La Forge” bump our page hits doubled!
So to all our new readers, welcome to the family! To old and new readers alike, thanks for checking us out every week, there’s more cool stuff on way and as always your ideas and comments are more than welcome! Thanks, of course, to Mr. LeVar Burton for the Twitter love and for the years of entertainment. Of course, some reciprocity is in order, please check out Levar’s blog at http://levarburton.com/
Rick
