Do you watch sports on TV? (Score 1)

I've been into Klingon and Esperanto and Tolkien's languages and linguistics generally since I was about 10 years old. I think jokes about the nerdiness of Klingon speakers are funny too, but having met at least a dozen of the best Klingon speakers in the world, I can attest that most of them are highly accredited professionals who are married and have kids. A disproportionate number also seem to be colorblind Jewish programmers, for some odd reason, but my point is these guys are intelligent, productive members of society from all over the world who happen to really like something unpopular. There seems to be a double standard in our culture w/r/t investing time in hobbies. If someone self-publishes a book full of intricate analysis of sports statistics, or spends hundreds of dollars a year on game tickets, we don't bat an eye. If you blog every day about trends in high fashion or video games, hardly anybody will complain about how you're wasting your excessive free time. But doing something equally engaging that happens to be associated with science fiction? Now THAT'S silly.