Who are the coolest geeks?

I like a bit of poetry from time to time.

I think I'll take a look at those threads.

I voted "some other" because Mythbusters is the best show on television

really though this thread title might as well be "who are the jewishest muslims"

come on, there are lots of dudes who think that their sportstatscox compensate for their otherwise undifferentiated uncoolness

Heterosexual theatre/opera/dance geeks have the math all in their favor.

I am a decently credentialed baseball geek -- fantasy is too prole for me -- and it has not gotten me laid a single time.

anyone who has actually read this entire thing is king geek in my book:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743227220.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I've read lots of it (both editions). I have also gone to Cuba on a flimsy pretext to watch baseball.

I may have a date with a Yankee fan tonight, but gay seamheads can't be choosers.

Baseball is basically a long stream of statistics in search of a sport, right?

NO, you evil man

as opposed to a long stream of zings in search of an original thought?

Really, it all comes down to whether the geekery in question is shorthand for 'erudite and sophisticated' or 'never leaves own bedroom, in mother's house'.

geekery in question is shorthand for 'erudite and sophisticated'

oh *that* kind of geekery

Sometimes I get paranoid that "Passantino" is Italian for "free time," and "Dom" is Italian for "too much"

"Dom" is Italian for "scarf," and "Passantino" means "too long"

Mine was better

as opposed to a long stream of zings in search of an original thought?

-- El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007

POW

*sulk*

Domenico "of the Lord", Passantino: archaic Sicilian term meaning "Ferryman"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2007/03/03/bmferry103.jpg

Baseball: America's Passantino

ha

yeah sadly in this new century the generally accepted assumptions regarding the term geek have been exploded to contain basically anybody who wants to be seen as hip for being knowledgeable about any topic e.g. "oh I'm a huge * geek"

which being the grumpy reactionary that I am I find disingenuous at best and despicable at worst since a perfectly good descriptive term (occasionally derisive, yes) has been co-opted by people who really have no business calling themselves anything more than consumptive dabblers. Hence my comment above about the thread title - nobody who has a snowball's chance in hell of being "cool" (sociable, popular, laid back, never overly concerned) should be able to meet the criteria of "geek."

Although perhaps the word has acquired a new function as described above, in separating said dabblers from genuine obsessives, who will generally all have their own name for themselves.

"...of being "cool" (sociable, popular, laid back, never overly concerned)"

see, now i think this is funny cuz a lot of people try to push this image of themselves so hard they end up looking like the biggest saddoes ever.

we should knock on wood that "cool" still means anything at all in any context

it's very sad when people look like saddoes

sad is as saddoes

http://www.toyvaulttoyclub.com/New%20Logos/Other_Pics/gaming/Plush_20_Sided_Dice%20-%20Small.jpg

you never know what you're gonna get

i remember at school everything was "sad". then, a year later everything was "gay"

geek type missing that's more femme-centric:
http://craftzine.com/images/craft/covers/05.gif

^^^overlaps with LARPers and goths

the fanatics and obsessives that i find the coolest are the ones who never lift their heads aboveground to see what's going on outside of their realm. they just keep digging holes. hole after hole. and they fill those holes with their love and their panic and the desperate knowledge that their work will remain forever unfinished.

but that's just me.

I remember one year when the world could "get fucked." then a year later the world could "eat shit."

there are loads of female nerds, they're just into things like knitting and collecting beanie babies rather than rpgs or heavy metal or whatever.

none of these groups has the obnoxiously high-self regard as do lifehackers

uh... move that hyphen one word to the right

http://www.weimax.com/images/SF_Intl_Wine_2007_Michael-Feil.jpg

i remember at school everything was "sad". then, a year later everything was "gay"

it's good that everyone found their bliss like that

old school geeks for me -- the ones who bite off chicken heads in the circus

*board games with scott* rules by the way:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JPi_uNWUJy0

http://www.lib.umd.edu/RARE/IMG/HardBoiled/alley.jpg

I think this current application of geek is getting out of hand, ever since I read a review referring to john coltrane as a jazz geek. i wanted to grab the critic and say "motherfucker JC was a virtuoso you're the geek."
anyway I digress - carry on.

i actually own the hardcover copy of nightmare alley with that cover. i am way cool.

that's what tobot was talking about above, i think. the word geek just gets thrown aound too easily these days.

tombot

The coolest geeks have a doctorate in an -ology and can be found toiling away in the sub-basement of an enormous natural history museum when they aren't out on a dig.

http://indiana-jones.navajo.cz/indiana-jones-2.jpg

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070503/scifigallery/backfuture_l.jpg

yeah, if you actively BUY poetry in actual book stores, then you probably qualify as a poetry geek.

What if, say, you've run and emceed a reading series for the past five or so years?

And if you have a BoardGameGeek account?

Anyway, there weren't foreign language geeks, so I went with the mathletes.

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."

And it's, like, not cool.

slashdong.org

Retrocomputing geeks.

We have the coolest, blinkingest toys, and we don't get asked to fix windows problems.

Yeah but there's nothing worse than being around two buds having a 15-minute conversation about who started out with the slowest internet connection.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i think i'll go with toy collector

http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/bonnets/toys.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Yes, they are being so cool!!

Where is a face to be exhibiting one's SARCASM >_<

"Mathletes" now is continuing to be a good laugh! XD Good job MATHLETE! You have obtained a silver medal.

ILX in learning nothing from ILX shocker.

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.

― Just got offed, Saturday, 29 December 2007 01:44 (6 years ago)

everything was boardwalked & the circuit could have been negotiated in carpet slippers today fwiw