The Geek in Me
"You can't tell if someone is a geek just by looking at them, there is no dress code."
Go ahead, say it, G E E K. I'm a geek. Proud of it. Though we have to share some understanding about the definition of the word. Rule 1. A Geek is not a Nerd. Nerd is bad. Geek is good. Simple.
Geeks are beings that crave knowledge, they want to learn about new, interesting and weird things. A geek can be someone who spends time being "social" on a computer. A geek can be the loner long distance runner. In fact I think the original spirit of Nike, is the spirit of the Running Geek. Geeks are generally social outcasts from mainstream society.. and they dont subscribe to mainstream thinking, but they do like to think about and debate things.
Part of a definition I found on the web: Gamers, ravers, science fictions fans, punks, trekkies. These are people who did not go to their high school proms, and many would be offended by the suggestion that they should have even wanted to. Geeks prefer to socialise with other geeks, the self proclaimed weird.
Lets see, I did go to my high school prom, but it was a blind date. The self proclaimed weird is maybe I bit too much.
..So, I'm not a complete geek, I try not to have the common 'geek physique' for example.
Among the forms of geekness I practice are: (junior)book-geek, (junior)font-geek, movie-geek, health-geek, music-geek, Internet-geek, Linux-geek..
"Contrary to common belief, hackers are more social than other people"
-- Marvin Minsky, MIT AI Lab
Computer Geek Related:
OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Shell: /bin/zsh
Editor: Jed
Mail Client: Mutt
Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox
Keyboard Layout: DVORAK
Writing Framework: DocBook XML
Touch type: ~60 Words per minute
Favourite Mail Transport Agent: Qmail-LDAP
Favourite Domain Name Server: djbdns
Running GNU/Linux since: Feb 1997, kernel 2.0.17
(Was) Running FreeBSD since: Aug 1999, ver3.2
(Was) Running OpenBSD since: Okt 1999, ver2.5
Favourite Games per category: Quake One, Monkey Island One, Dune2
Favourite Programming Drink: Rooibos Tea
Best Uptime on my workstation: 334 days
Useless info about my PC:
CPU: Intel Core2Duo 2.4GHz
RAM: 1GB DDR2-800
HDD: Two 320Gig SATA disks RAID1
Video: NVidia GeForce
LG 20inch LCD
Sound: SB Live!
"by the geeks, for the geeks"