Who are the coolest geeks?

pc user: while there is some deviation in usage, geek does imply highly-specialized knowledge about a perticular subject

britishes

in the taxonomy of the socially inept, which we might comprehend in a sort of binomial nomenclature wherein geek is the container family, there are two primary (but by no means mutually exclusive) genera roughly corresponding to 'excessive interest' and 'excessive apathy/disinterest' that apply to the individual geek species

shut up u geek

wait which are the excessive apathy ones
I assume the other is nerd
or are you just typing shit

no, the excessive-apathy kids are 'smart kids with lots of potential' and the 'lazy stoners' and those who will 'never made anything of themselves'

i need graphs

e.g. there are nerds-by-investment (e.g. D&D players with big, expensive and hard come by sword collections they work hard to maintain) and nerds-by-default (D&D players who raid the medicine cabinet for phennies and end up walking next door for pizza and into the smack-dab center of a month long campaign against Ricven the Chaotic Evil Half-Orc Loremaster.)

i was a mathlete.
it was not very cool.

http://rrrojer.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lindsayweir.jpg

anyways this is missing lots of kinds of geeks. where are the popular mechanics/electronic hobbyist radioshack geeks? or other kinds of science geek? none of these geeks even wear lab coats, and they look really cool.

that's why I voted "other" and said "mythbusters"

basically, adam savage and grant imahara ftw

Linda C A+++

http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/doctor-bunsen-honeydew-4994.jpg

i like how all the guys of ilx are gonna vote mathlete because they wanna bang lindsay wier.

i was an other geek too: i wanted to be

http://www.joodiff.com/images/articles/std001.jpg

and

http://aarkangel.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/oscar-wilde.jpg

and

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/a/a0/225px-Breton.jpeg

haha, i went to high school with that guy (possibly not the exact same guy)

-- elmo argonaut, Friday, December 28, 2007 4:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^ tell

i like how all the guys of ilx are gonna vote mathlete because they wanna bang lindsay wier.

-- bell_labs, Friday, December 28, 2007 6:25 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Dude, I'll post that picture of your boyfriend where he looks like her.

lol I have seen that photo and remember the thread about it

Do not us QUIZZERS count as geeks then? ;¨;?

+ humbleness
- arrogance
+ arrogance
- humbleness
0(+) humbleness & arrogance independently distributed relative to actual capacity.

erm...
i would say the ones who can get me the best drugs = winner.
(that would be music nerds)

Also medieval geeks != classic geeks, ffs!

Oops "classics". They do equal classic!

Goths are often fantasy/horror or comic or RPG geeks, but I agree that being a goth doesn't per se equate being a geek.

You know, I was going to make a joke, but it occurs to me that there might actually be such a thing as a "sex geek."

What would he/she do to show his geekery then? Have a complex system of notating, grading and analyzing people he's fucked, in what positions he's done it, in which locations, etc?

there's definitely a such thing as a sex geek. it's like bondage people, people who use elaborate outfits and latex, that kind of thing. they can usually be found on craigslist casual encounters, hbo's real sex, and at burning man.

i'm sure you could come up with something, xpost

actually maybe it's more like a sex nerd. sex geek sounds like something that would be in a soft cell song.

and, they are not cool.

but a sex geek could also be someone who knows the entire history of bondage equipment and has a vintage collection of bondage accessories that they have never actually used.

like that Museum of Mentruation guy. total tampon geek:

http://www.mum.org/visitMUM.htm

sports geek backlash = envy

and it's not about being a statto, it's about having a photographic memory for LOTS of sporting action.

sex geeks are those flabby people you see on HBO's Real Sex shows swinging on bungee cords while they paint the walls with their nude bodies or stick themselves in candle wax and play accordions while they fuck and shit

good lord i hate the human body

the human mind is much more worthy of that sentiment

sports geek backlash = envy

and it's not about being a statto, it's about having a photographic memory for LOTS of sporting action.

-- Just got offed, Saturday, 29 December 2007 00:59 (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

you are fooling NOBODY, statto.

very well, my vote for 'other' was a poetry/birdwatching geek vote. with a bit of cricket and footy thrown in. :D

without referring strictly to myself, birdwatchers are fucking chilled-out people on the whole. any sort of nature geek is worth knowing (usually).

aren't all academics inherently "geeks"? (serious question) or did academia lose its blissfully unselfconscious geeky soul and go to hell at some point in synch with the rise of the "hipster" grad student persona?

also add the tremendous number of people who are in grad programs now who have no business being in grad programs cf my comment about consumer/dabblers

"aren't all academics inherently "geeks"?"

some of them are just smart people with nothing better to do. or even dumb people with nothing better to do. they aren't all obsessed like people in the throes of geekdom are.

I think you could conceivably make the case that nearly all doctoral candidates are "geeks" but definitely not all, since I have known people who were pursuing ph.d's who really didn't give one whit of a smidgen of a fuck about their field of study beyond "more paper means more green" not to mention being totally outclassed by amateur blogger types working in the same arena

I like the turn of phrase "in the throes of geekdom"
it sounds like something walker percy might say if he ever said things like "geekdom"

I dunno, for what it is worth I feel that the "hands on a hard body"-style elimination contest that happens as you actually complete and file your PhD is a process that requires so much focus and commitment and (perhaps insane) self-belief that if you complete grad school you can't just be dismissed as a "dabbler". Not in this grim and hopeless job market, anyway. People can definitely waste their time and other people's time hanging out in grad school, but finishing a dissertation is another matter. That said, theory-inflected humanities has certainly birthed a "cool kids" pattern of identity that is at odds with the older "geek and proud" stance.

man, you should hang out in woods hole sometime. serious algae geeks. there is a woman on the island here who follows the skunks around all year. and she is REALLY into it. she ain't no faux skunk-lovin' poseur. she's the real skunky deal.

tom, you should look into a job in woods hole. lots of underground gov. psi-ops going on involving crustaceans.

http://www.whoi.edu/

where is the "nature" geek? like, only wears wool and other old-fashioned outdoorsy gear, listens exclusively to blue-grass and regularly throws 80s-themed dance parties?

"People can definitely waste their time and other people's time hanging out in grad school, but finishing a dissertation is another matter."

i would never discount the serious time/work people put into a pursuit like that. and i don't doubt that most people are really into what they are into. but there are definitely people who are just addicted to school. the end-game almost doesn't matter to them. i've known some. some just become full-time teachers eventually. most of them, actually. that i've known.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/www/images/clubs/DOC20040820-MooseMountainSh.jpg

nah, the nature geek goes out to nature reserves on their weekends and looks for plants and animals. the lepidopterists and birdwatchers are foremost in this field; butterflies and avians elicit that much more excitement. the real ultras draw pictures of what they've seen in their notebooks, habitat and all. often bearded, they can frequently be found with binoculars. rarely harmful. sturdy walking-boots, goretex mac.

the other night I was watching Dirty Jobs on the discovery channel and Mike Rowe was hanging out with this chick who had green hair and breeding mosquitoes in a lab. At the end Mike is all "I still hate the bastards, but you love 'em don'tcha" and the girl had him pull her shirt down in the back so the cameraman could capture this giant detailed full-color tattoo of an adult aedes aegypti on her left shoulder