“The definitions I grew up with were that a geek is someone unusually into something (so you could have computer geeks, baseball geeks, theater geeks, etc) and nerds are (often awkward) science, math, or computer geeks. But definitions vary.”
For some reason it really does feel like they get it :)
Happy Monday, Geek on!
A good funny to get you through until Monday :)
This is an article from http://www.greatwhitesnark.com. Great work!!! Please go read his full article here. This is so well done!
Geek on!
Our family is preparing to go on vacation next week to Maine. We will be meeting my brother and his fiance there who went down a week early for 2 weeks. Today he called me and while we were talking we got the big idea for him to head over to a webcam that we know someone is running 24/7.
Sure enough after about a minute I hit a refresh and there they are standing in the parking lot.
Now I know this isn’t the best picture – I can’t even tell if it is really them by looking at it. Some of you might miss them after even your second look but they are there, standing in the parking lot behind the black car. To think that we are so connected in this world that it was as easy as a 300 yard walk for me to catch a glimpse into their vacation!
That’s why I am a geek. I think it’s amazing that today we can connect to each other when ever we want to. Today and tomorrow we have new ways to connect and the old ways get better. Too awesome.
Keep the beach warm and the waves high bro… I will see you in 3 sleeps :)
Geek on!
After already having 2 kids with my wife I am a little jealous that I did not see this before she was pregnant. Too funny – even better for the geek girl than for the geek’s wife though :)
ThinkGeek :: Loading… Please Wait Maternity Shirt.
This is Barbara’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway at chris.pirillo.com and geeks.pirillo.com.
Maybe it’s just me, but I believe there are many differences between the expression and characteristics of a “Geek” and a “Nerd”. Obviously, the typical nerd does not compare to the status of a geek today – but what are they?
What is a Geek? What is a Nerd? | Chris Pirillo.
I know I bill myself as a techy blog but holy crap! The weather this summer has been horrible the entire summer. This is what we saw rolling over the island of Montreal yesterday!
August 18, 2008 5:30pm - Cloud of doom
It is starting to get a little tired with all the rain. At our cottage one of the local retailers was saying that they were on their 49th strait day of rain up there. Not that we have been blessed with good weather here, we only missed that by 2 days apparently.
This is our current forecast… everyone please wish us luck. I can only hope that things are on the upswing.
Montreal Forecast
How is the weather in your neck of the woods? Are you experiencing what feels like the end of the world as well?
I was looking around on Viewzi after Chris Pirillo mentioned it on twitter today and usually when I do a search for the first time on a new service I search for “Sleepy Geek”. This one came out kind of interesting because I ended up finding a digg article mentioning Sleepy Geek. Totally unrelated to my site but quite interesting none the less. I think it applies to me :)
Take a look at the result here. If you click through the multiple levels of references you end up with an article from a UK site about tired people spending too much time on techy type stuff.
Interesting read, take a look. Then go to sleep. ‘Cause for crying out loud, this is one of the reason’s you are tired!
People who know my wife Christine and I know that we are huge cruise fans. We have been married for almost 6 years and have had the chance to take two cruises. Our first was our honeymoon in 2002 and was quite a whirlwind, as you can imagine. Our second was when our son was almost 2 years old and was something that we had planned for a long time in advance. We were lucky enough to be taken by my parents with the whole family.
Being the geek that I am, I do a lot of research online. So off I went looking around and stumbled upon CruiseCritic. At the time it was laid out as most sites were and offered some very good information. Today it still looks quite similar (a little outdated) but still has a ton of content. I would recommend anyone to head on over to the forum and chat it up. There are thousands of cruisers in there who are very passionate about their pastime and love to offer their knowledge and opinions on almost anything relating to a cruise vacation.
A new site, and what sparked this article has popped up on the scene. socruise is a new website billing themselves as “your social cruise community”. It seems like they are trying to bring cruisers closer together on the ship as well as on the website. I am curious to see how it will stack up to CruiseCritic however; as they have been around a long time. One of CruiseCritic’s forum sections has over 200 000 threads and over 3.17 million posts. That’s an astronomical number of people posting and it will be hard for any site to chip away at that.
Still, there is another angle to this. I am tempted myself to start posting on socruise none the less. I have a strange feeling that once the core group of posters at CruiseCritic gets wind of socruise, they will bring people over and most will participate in both groups.
Something else to note, given this is a geek blog and a post about cruising… There is something for the geek interested in cruising. Has anyone heard of Geek Cruises? Now known as InSight Cruises they have been putting together cruises for like minded people for years. Started by Neil Bauman and Theresa Mazich in 2000 with their first cruise called Perl Whirl, they are now the place to go and sign in for a cruise.
One day I might be able to convince Christine to head out on one of these. For now, I will take any cruise I can get :) Breakfast at sea, on a private balcony with only the blue ocean in front of me and my wife beside me has to be one of my favorite things.
Happy cruising!
I posted about an artist named Geoff Smith a couple of weeks ago, giving him props about creating some good geek music. Still love his style! I was poking around last night and I stumbled upon this video from Weezer. Apparently also 5 million others have stumbled on it as well as it is becoming a pretty popular song on Youtube.
It’s amazing to see a more mainstream band play some geeky music. If you watch the video below you will notice some really cool net/youtube references. So kudos to Weezer and I believe the Patrick Wilson who has been their link to geekdom in the past.
Have a look: Weezer – Pork and Beans
—–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—–
Version: 3.1
GIT d- s:+ a C++++ UL+ P L++ W++ N+ K-
w+ M+ V– Y+ PGP t++@ X- tv+ b– DI+++
D+ G++ h++ r+++ z++++
——END GEEK CODE BLOCK——
I came across this page (http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html) while reading through my regular sites and thought it was worth a mention. I am all for this kind of thing. I have a printed out Initech TPS Report cover sheet hanging on my cubicle wall along with another sheet reading “There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t”.
It’s nice to know there are other people in the world with the same interests and can talk the same language. After all we are a ‘special’ bunch. I try to keep my posts clean of too much geekness but let’s be honest… There are times when my wife, with the best intentions will ask a detailed question about why my day was good or bad and then I get to watch her eyes glaze over while I tell her. :) Kudos to her!
To get your geek code you need to read through the page and manually write it out. Only a true geek would take the 5 minutes :)
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