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Geekpride

Geek:

  • A person who is interested in technology, especially computing and new media. Geeks are adept with computers, and use the term hacker in a positive way, though not all are hackers themselves.
  • A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one who passionately pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance.

I found this definition, quoted from Wikipedia, on the website of The Society for Geek Advancement, a site where you can watch and embrace being a geek.

Shira Lazar wrote about it, and also about people tweeting about their Geek Pride.
With so much advertising about the coolness of being a Geek, the paradox is that being a geek is obviously the same as being a “normal” person – not to say a petty, bourgeois, middle-class, mediocre person.

Being a geek means being so interested in something that you don’t care whether or not it’s cool.

Posted by kuehleborn on May 15th, 2009 Posted in Geeks Tagged as:

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  • The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge

    Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.

    – David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993

  • Geek Attitude

    The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
    Definitely the only way to travel.
    – Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.