Given that I have been focused on the Lost Fantasy League the past few days, I thought this puts it all into perspective. Where you fit on this depends on three criteria. I would like to think I am a Geek, according to this coding scheme, but you may disagree and think I am either a Nerd or a Dork. And, yes, Jacob, another softball down the middle of the plate for you.
HT to The Great White Snark
I've kvetched about this every month or so for quite a while, every time it comes around. It's wrong, wrong, wrong. It just can't be the case that "geek" and "socially inept" are entirely mutually exclusive categories. So, no, I won't be using this to mock you.
ReplyDeleteAs the great John Hodgman said:
"I’m a big fat geek. And there are those of you who’ll say, 'Wait a minute didn’t he earlier say he’s a nerd? There’s a difference between geeks and nerds, of course.' To you people I say: shut up, nerds."
Would you switch nerd and geek, then? I do like the three dimensions.
ReplyDeleteI'm clearly a geek myself, but I do agree that the term most definitely does not exclude social ineptitude. Nor would I switch it with nerd, for the same reason. I think a new term is needed for that intersection.
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