GEEKORAMA

http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html.

My score was 37%.

Now you go ahead and take the test. It'll take you about ten minutes. Go ahead. I'll wait.

Quite a neat quiz, hey? Geek is a subculture now. Geek evolved from Nerd. Nerd used to be a genetically unviable recessive trait in our social gene pool; now it seems that the new Nerd-- homo nerdus superior-- aka the Geeks, are taking over the world.

Not that we could ever really take over the world; it will always be the Administrators that run things; most geeks could care less about anything other than their ideas.

But it's interesting to see, according to this test, all the things that apparently count as being geeky. Perhaps there's a little geek in all of us.

Like, if a guy spends $2000 upgrading his computer, he's a geek. But if he spends that same amount upgrading his CAR, he's still cool. We might call him a "car geek," denoting that obsession with any kind of hobby is geeky, but generally he'll still be the shiznit with the ladeeez while the computer guy-- well, we assume he still has his chatrooms and his blog.

Ouch.

But now there's this Geek Culture-- and there are certainly more of us than there used to be. The Brittanys and Heathers are all ICQ-ey and Yahoo-ey and Net savvy chatty, whereas in the 80's only their dorky little BROTHERS ever touched the family computer.

The Brendans and Dylans all have pagers, cell phones, AND PDAs-- and moreover, know what PDA stands for-- whereas in the 80's to carry around any electronica other than a walkman with you was tantamount to wartime Germany people-labeling as an Undesirable.

And to think that those of us pre-Geek Nerds were told to go OUTSIDE and play, dammit, or we'll never make any friends.

And yet this coming Tuesday I'm organizing a meet for the Cowtown Bloggers. In fact, I'm the Social Coordinator. Geeks meet Geeks in person-- and then some will probably write about it on their geeky weblogs.

Funny old world, ain't it? Sure seems to be a lot of friends out there, just for the typing at.

Geek is a great place to be. It's come into its own. No more the weekend keggers for the jocks as the only social outlet. No more the dreary mosh pits for the alternative subculture. Geek meets in coffee shops are there, now, too. In fact, thanks to Coffee Culture, Geek culture has permanent meeting places al lthe hell everywhere.

Because, according to this test, everyone is at least a little bit Geek. Pleased to meet you. Nice of you to join us.

Wanna go for coffee?

Posted by Agent M at October 04, 2003 03:13 PM