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ZDNet on the Essence of Geek
sebFlyte writes "ZDNet has a feature on The Essence of Geek, which looks at the rise of the geek (and the fact that everyone's turning into one), in the years post .com boom." From the article: "For a few years, an interest in computers and technology became inextricable linked with wealth and power -- geek became chic. Technology companies suddenly became the focus of the kind of attention that had been reserved for the music or fashion industries. In the UK TV makers even went so far as to create a hip series, Attachments, based around the antics of a tech start-up."
Spoken like a true Star Trek geek...
Sometimes I doubt your committment to SparkleMotion!
Like, omg, I'm so totally a geek now! I can IM, and sync my ipod, and blog, and post myspace pix! And like, even I know that those popups are annoying!
I am SO geek!!!!
Sounds like a line of new cologne from Ralph Loren aimed at today's IT workers.
If big boobed women work at Hooters do one legged women work at IHOP?
how different is dressing up for a Star Trek Convention and a Football game?
You won't get home from the convention with hot-wing sauce smeared on your face and Bud spilled down your uniform.
Trolling is a art,
"For a few years, an interest in computers and technology became inextricable linked with wealth and power -- geek became chic"
I'm pretty sure this is one of the signs of the apocalypse
unlike nerd and anorak, which still tend to be used as insults Dude, I would HATE to be called an anorak! After all, who WOULD want to be identified as "a usually pullover hooded jacket long enough to cover the hips". So insulting.
The Essence of Geek:
Serves: 1
Ingredients:
2 tbsp Mountain Dew: cooled to room temperature
12 fl oz generic beer
2 oz Cheetos: crushed to fine powder
5 oz Bacon strips: fried till crisp
0.5 lb butter: at room temperature
0.5 lbs onions: ground to fine consistency
2 nos. matured socks: preferably fermented for 3 days
Preparation:
Preparation Time: 5 minutes.
Heat butter in pan until gently melting. Stir in remaining ingredients and simmer till delicious smell begins to whaffle through kitchen. Cool to room temperature, drain and apply in generous proportion.
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Now the guys who picked on me are geeks too?
then came an article claiming that geekiness is actually "kewl", and people were actually yearning to be one. That marked the end of geekdom. Now every other person using ipod and knowing how to download firefox considers himself/herself a geek, making the existence of the actual geeks as minority. Maybe, the geeks would start yearning to be just normal, and then it would reverse..
Bahh!!
I remember when a Geek was the guy in the sideshow who bit the head off of a chicken. Those were the days!
Nononononononononono. News for nerds. Not news for geeks.
The true geeks are all somewhere else, having much more fun.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
Everyone. Everyone has that one area of passion in which they excel and have a knowledge of minutae. Be it Red Sox stats dating to 1903...
Shh! Do you want to be sued?
A geek isn't someone who knows how to use an iPod. A geek is someone who has all their Ogg Vorbis's on their bluetooth enabled PDA along with playlists, and he can walk from his house to his car to his cubicle without a skip in the beat because it seamlessly transfers between his home stereo, built in speakers in the PDA, his car stereo, and his computer's speakers at the office.
Extra points for writing a new compression algorithm to store more songs on the PDA. Bonus if you have neon lights under your car that are synchronised to the music.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Yeah, get outta here, you geeks!
A real geek knows that Eric Raymond is ESR, not ERS.
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Everyone may be turning into a geek but on slashdot we are still all just dorks.
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Around where I work, this "Essence of Geek" of which you speak is BO.
...then why can't most male geeks get dates?
*watches iron-clad karma melt into hot slag*
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What conventions do you go to?
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