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Aficionados of brainy pursuits may still be called “geeks,” but in the Information Age, they’ve reclaimed the insult as a term of endearment. Celebrants at Langdon Street Café’s “Geek Week” pay tribute to oddball hobbies once confined to basement rumpus rooms. Joystick jostlers power up at a multiplayer gaming extravaganza and a Pac-Man arcade fest, or switch to pencils and paper for old-school Dungeons & Dragons. PJ’d gazers consume cereal and cartoons as part of an “antisocial social,” then vie for supremacy in the fields of ping-pong, ’80s trivia and sci-fi/fantasy fashion. Yearning for learning? Geeks-in-training can sample workshops ranging from jazz theory to “ethical hacking,” then take in nightly live music. Download the full schedule, or stop by at random. You won’t be the only one.

Geek Week, Thursday through Thursday, June 21-28, Langdon Street Café, Montpelier, see calendar for various times. Donations. Info, 223-8667. lscgeekweek.blogspot.com