Geeks Of The World, Unite!
This is in response to theferrett’s post “Why Are Comic Book Geeks So Nerdy?” This post is located in his charity_whore account. If you haven’t yet donated to the cause, you won’t be able to read it. Thus, I suggest you do so. Please click here to see how you can do so.
I had never thought about it before, but he really nailed the way I am. I am a geek. Period. I know what it is like to try to "turn on the charisma" and get the stare down as though I came straight from a black and white comedy about a family from Transylvania.
It really is a sad part of my existence. Unfortunately, I was not an attractive, socially gifted person, thus I find it hard to be charming when it comes to women.
And he has definitely hit the nail on the head when he said that a geek is loud when they're in their comfort zone, and quiet when they are out of it. Two good examples of this are the way that my buddies and I act when we are at work, and the way that we are acting here at this Blog-A-Thon party-type-shindig.
To understand my first example, you have to know what kind of work I do. I sit on a computer all day and churn data for muscle research related to chronic low back pain. It’s a dream job for any true computer geek such as myself. I get to set the data-churning programs up, tell them to run, and then grab other employees from the physics department to go out to smoke. While we are out there, we are normally obnoxious to all high hell. Even when we’re sitting in the computer lab, we’re still loud and unruly. But as soon as we walk away from the physics building, we all become quiet and reserved. It’s amazing what a difference 100 yards can make.
To give you an idea about the party-type-shindig that is happening over here, try to get an image of this room into your mind. We’re sitting in the living room of his house. In this room there is approximately seven chairs (four of them around the dining room table), two couches a nice coffee table, and what he describes as his “Monster Penis System” which consists of a wide screen TV that is smaller than China but bigger than Cuba, as well as all of the other toys, gadgets, and sound system accessories that you could possibly imagine.
Now in this room are four people, sitting around on the couches and/or chairs, staring at their laptop computers and frantically typing as fast as their fingers will go. (Okay, so grailquestion is actually working on the next episode of her online comic - Edge Of The World. Go check it out…it’s very good. I just got turned on to it tonight, and I’m hooked.)
So throughout this whole experience, there’ll randomly be a comment that MUST be yelled at the top of one of our lungs, and of course it must be responded to….an example, also posted in charity_whore.
Me (to Ferrett): "My friend Alex says he's sorry he can't donate more to the cause, but he will donate cigarettes and beer if anyone who needs it."
Melissa chokes mildly, then says: "I thought you said he'd offer sex and beer."
Ferrett: "Mmmm-boy! Anal sex for charity!"
Yeah…geeks at their finest. This should start to get really interesting as the day becomes new again.
I had never thought about it before, but he really nailed the way I am. I am a geek. Period. I know what it is like to try to "turn on the charisma" and get the stare down as though I came straight from a black and white comedy about a family from Transylvania.
It really is a sad part of my existence. Unfortunately, I was not an attractive, socially gifted person, thus I find it hard to be charming when it comes to women.
And he has definitely hit the nail on the head when he said that a geek is loud when they're in their comfort zone, and quiet when they are out of it. Two good examples of this are the way that my buddies and I act when we are at work, and the way that we are acting here at this Blog-A-Thon party-type-shindig.
To understand my first example, you have to know what kind of work I do. I sit on a computer all day and churn data for muscle research related to chronic low back pain. It’s a dream job for any true computer geek such as myself. I get to set the data-churning programs up, tell them to run, and then grab other employees from the physics department to go out to smoke. While we are out there, we are normally obnoxious to all high hell. Even when we’re sitting in the computer lab, we’re still loud and unruly. But as soon as we walk away from the physics building, we all become quiet and reserved. It’s amazing what a difference 100 yards can make.
To give you an idea about the party-type-shindig that is happening over here, try to get an image of this room into your mind. We’re sitting in the living room of his house. In this room there is approximately seven chairs (four of them around the dining room table), two couches a nice coffee table, and what he describes as his “Monster Penis System” which consists of a wide screen TV that is smaller than China but bigger than Cuba, as well as all of the other toys, gadgets, and sound system accessories that you could possibly imagine.
Now in this room are four people, sitting around on the couches and/or chairs, staring at their laptop computers and frantically typing as fast as their fingers will go. (Okay, so grailquestion is actually working on the next episode of her online comic - Edge Of The World. Go check it out…it’s very good. I just got turned on to it tonight, and I’m hooked.)
So throughout this whole experience, there’ll randomly be a comment that MUST be yelled at the top of one of our lungs, and of course it must be responded to….an example, also posted in charity_whore.
Me (to Ferrett): "My friend Alex says he's sorry he can't donate more to the cause, but he will donate cigarettes and beer if anyone who needs it."
Melissa chokes mildly, then says: "I thought you said he'd offer sex and beer."
Ferrett: "Mmmm-boy! Anal sex for charity!"
Yeah…geeks at their finest. This should start to get really interesting as the day becomes new again.