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Geeks

First, it should be obvious that I consider myself a geek. I think I'm a pretty big geek. My sister Laurie is constantly calling me a geek; the funny thing is she thinks she's insulting me!

But I don't hold a candle to Phillip Torrone who runs www.flashenabled.com. Wow. This is now one of my favorite sites for blowing time on.

Regarding the term “Geek”, last week there was a thread on channel9 about arrogance. One poster suggested that the definition of a geek is one who's primary motivation in life is to be more clever than someone else and then make sure everyone knows it. I strongly disagreed and posted this:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4989#4989

Comments

loulou said:

He really is a geek. Take it from me, I'm his sister.
# June 3, 2004 10:25 AM

Tom said:

Takes one to know one.
# June 3, 2004 7:00 PM

Loulou said:

you would know Tom.
# June 3, 2004 7:01 PM

Charlie Kindel said:

I wondered how long it would take you to find this post. See you guys in about a month!
# June 4, 2004 11:16 AM

Emily said:

Uncle Tigger is a geek!
# June 15, 2004 12:07 PM