The joy she references is often regarded as a defining element of
geekdom, as attested by Simon Pegg, British actor and nerd icon, in an interview on BBC Radio's "Front Row": "It means you're into your stuff.
"Government 2.0"); Charles Homans, The
Geekdom of Crowds: The
Of all the areas of expertise in the streaming media industry, three seem to rank particularly high in the pantheon of
geekdom: encoding, server configuration, and metadata.
I'm perfectly happy to remain on the design-oriented, leather-cosseted fringe of airplane
geekdom. Just don't expect me to have an excited conversation about wingspan with any of the other geeks.
But,
geekdom can now overcome all; with night-vision technology, you can in effect turn on the lights and see all of this.
For instance, last year, District of Columbia Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra opened up stores of raw city-government data and, taking a page from the Athenians, challenged enterprising computer programmers to a contest to come up with useful applications for the information--a concept he is now pursuing nationwide as Obama's tech czar, as Charles Homans reports in the current issue ("The
Geekdom of Crowds," page 13).
To borrow a little from Star Trek
geekdom, there seems to be infinite manufacturing and technological diversity through infinite combinations.
While this may be true, his roots are solidly and deeply planted in post-modern scientific
geekdom.
(I suppose this is his attempt to humanize
geekdom.)
After many weekends of mind-numbing DVD
geekdom, my friends and I became increasingly suspicious of the characters' ease at persuading people to fall in love with them.
The role filled a need for me: it lent style to what otherwise was the absence of style, cool to what otherwise was sheer
geekdom. Alex P.
From
geekdom in a lab or on the job to a computer scientist member of a video game creation team questioning the purpose perhaps even the morality of topless-girl-on-bikes game (called "BMX XXX") she was working on, to a biologist's view of the dating world, She's Such a Geek!
