All bow down to the lord great grand poobah of geekdom! ::grin::
One day I was sitting in a meeting with the customers when they decided a nice icebreaker would be to analyze whether us software guys were nerds or geeks. For some reason hygiene seems to come into play here, but I have a different term for the unclean - dirty.
So how did I answer? "A geek is someone like me who revels in being absorbed in something technical, or something very deep. Thus one can even be an art geek or music geek without even knowing math. Now the nerd definition tends to change over time, but at present it can be loosly defined as someone who has general geeky habits, but does not revel in their intelligence and might even be in denial about it." The irony was, I was talking to accountants who were under the impression that they weren't in the least bit nerdy.
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Date: 2003-06-16 04:13 pm (UTC)One day I was sitting in a meeting with the customers when they decided a nice icebreaker would be to analyze whether us software guys were nerds or geeks. For some reason hygiene seems to come into play here, but I have a different term for the unclean - dirty.
So how did I answer? "A geek is someone like me who revels in being absorbed in something technical, or something very deep. Thus one can even be an art geek or music geek without even knowing math. Now the nerd definition tends to change over time, but at present it can be loosly defined as someone who has general geeky habits, but does not revel in their intelligence and might even be in denial about it." The irony was, I was talking to accountants who were under the impression that they weren't in the least bit nerdy.