There was a time when nobody wanted to be called a geek. It meant you were a book worm, with no life, no girlfriend, basically a ‘nobody’.
Well, times do change and so does the outlook of people. These days, everybody wants to be called a geek (at least in my profession - the IT industry). You still are a book worm (more of a computer worm), you still have no life, in most cases you still dont have a girlfriend, but you are ’somebody’. The world of geeks stands up to take notice of its brethren. That is that.

Take note, that the geeks are geeks. Modern geeks do posses some extrordinary qualities. They can stare at a monitor (well, an average guy uses 2 screens for a single system) for 20 hours in a day, the rest of it is spent in drowning oneself in tons of hardware. They have the ability to work with no lighting what so ever. For them, Football is another curse on man kind. A girl friend? You’ll get killed if you mention it to them.

There were days when you would find people talking to themselves. This was more in the mental asylums. People who had lost their bearing upstairs. These days, if you find people talking to themselves, you are wrong. They are geeks with the latest gadgetry. A 5 gm bluetooth earpiece, embedded in their ear, talking to the GPS system on their PDA, asking for directions to get to the next room!!

However, Not all Geeks are true Geeks, Consider having 60 systems in your basement with half a dozen servers. Writing applications to control the bidding on popular auction sites, being able to hack good software programs without batting an eye, using Keyboards that dont have any markings on the keys!! Well, you definitely arent ‘normal’.

I am a Geek, maybe not a “true” Geek, but one never the less, and i like it :P

Posted: 04|14|06 at 7:40 am. Filed under: Humor, Personal.
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