Increasingly of late I have heard people describing themselves as Geeks. This is not a description that is based on these people having low self-esteem issues and describing themselves as geeks in a defeatist way.
To the contrary.
This self-description is being made in a way that is proud and indeed subversive. For it is well known that you might be a geek at 20, interested in technology, maybe a little pale-skinned, lacking in muscle, spotty and with a palette of conversation that spans the range of popular culture all the way from from a to b, but in the future, you are likely to be the multi- multi-millionaire that retires at 35 and sets up a philanthropic foundation, while the muscley sportstar of today has to put up with his weeney disappearing up his abdomen because of all the steroids he has taken in his teens.
Being geeky has never been such a badge of honour.
People are increasingly OUT about their geekiness.
People want to be geeky like never before.
Being geeky is difficult, complicated, perhaps a bit lonely at first, but all geeks know that when the day of reckoning comes, they will be the ones with their fingers on the levers of power.
So my geek friends tell me anyway.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHaha, geek!
*gives Doc a dead arm and high-fives jockish people*
I think most fellas have a bit of geekishness in them - what else is being able to recite the position and stats of every player in the Premiership, other than glorified trainspotting?
Me? I’m a Douglas Adams fan. I think that speaks volumes.
Douglas Adams - Pure genius.
The best thing about geeks is their invention of alternative worlds. They play those cards, juggle, wear jumpers, T-shirts that say “kneel before me for I am root” (good joke, if you know UNIX).
Love the scene from Waynes World where Garth finds his girlfriend and she has a book on Unix and its immediate love.
Aaaah, wish I was a geek.
Burt I’m not!! Not, you hear.
But what of the dweebs?
Since you mentioned Bill, I think I better point out;
http://tinyurl.com/2mb89j
Four of NUIM’s own getting the chance to meet him.
ha ha. I see them in suits behind Bill. Good on them. A geek moment I would love to be part of.
pfft…..stay out of restaurants that’s all I say……ok maybe you can come to mine……but stay out of the rest….