I generally hate these things but hey. Dork!

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Via nefas, the You are Such a Dork Chain Letter "Meme" Thing:

List 5 reasons you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud of how big a dork you are! Then pick the 5 biggest dorks you know and have them do the meme.

1. My job title is "Senior Unix System Administrator".
   
   
2. I am a licensed amateur radio operator.
   
   
3. My first career was rock critic and arts journalist.
   
   
4. I went to work for AOL as an online "Guide" in 1991 because I was spending too much money playing their online D&D game and needed free access.
   
   
5. I laugh out loud, geeksnorting, at the cleverly multilayered cultural references in Umberto Eco's novels.

Hm, five biggest dorks I know? Competition here is stiff, so I'll just kinda pick five of the people I know, almost all of whom are dorks of some type.

mendel
eyeteeth
the_silent_one
turnip
joyfulagitator

Y'all are tagged.