>>In order to achieve this you may need tutoring in the finer points of geekism. If this is the case then I will put you in touch with a couple of good friends of mine that live in your neck of the woods (Omaha that is) :-)


ROFL! Yeah, I may have lost "my edge" since I married a nongeeky female. However since then she has become a dreaded "Quality Assurance Technician" at my company! Is she now geekafied? Or just enjoys being able to now point out my mistakes and tell me to fix them at work as well as at home??? This paradigm (from Greek paradeiknyai - to show side by side)(god I love that word!) now forces me to surf countless web pages in search of the true meaning of geekism.

Not that I agree with all these but here are a few that caught my eye with the highlights...

Eric Raymond describes "computer geek" as "one who eats (computer) bugs for a living.") http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci212179,00.html

the unwritten geek credo states that originality and strangeness are good, and that blind conformity and stupidity are unforgivable.
http://www.rhoenwurz.de/geeks.html

This is my favorite: The word "geek" is a fairly recent Americanism, derived from the Middle Low German "geck," which was supposed to be a sound crazy people made. http://hdd.rox.com/?entry=geek

And this one sums it up!
http://www.geek.com/welcome.htm
WHO IS A GEEK?
If you're an outsider looking in, you'll notice us running your server rooms and your computer systems at work. We run the websites and communications systems of the world. We're also the ones that tell you which computers to buy and then support them when they don't work the way you expect them to.

If you're an insider, you've discovered that you can earn a living doing what you love, and your skills are needed now more than ever in our world. Chances are that you make more money than your parents ever did, you don't wear suits, and you've probably got a bunch of stock options nestled away for retirement. You are a wanted commodity and the Internet is your home away from home. If you're fired or laid off it is almost comical, as you have a new job earning more money the next week at a company with better benefits.

Ahh. The GOOD life!