For the record ....

[Foxee Browne]

It's been reclaimed, the internet culture created the new definition.

The nerd writes the programs for the internet to run

The geek builds the pc and only another geek likes to be called a geek .... because we know what it means.

It's the dork who askes the geek to fix his pc and pays them to do the job .... and smiles when they pay the bill, cause they can look at more porn the geek wrote, if only they knew.

 

[TE999]

The nerd writes the programs for the internet to run

The geek builds the pc and only another geek likes to be called a geek .... because we know what it means.

It's the dork who askes the geek to fix his pc and pays them to do the job .... and smiles when they pay the bill, cause they can look at more porn the geek wrote, if only they knew.

That is downright lyrical, partner.

Poetry in geekdom.

Gonna frame that puppy!

 

[Guest]

Not just sucking up to the thread's originator, but here is something sexy about a girl geek, at least to another geek.

If that seems odd to you non-geeks, it is sort of the same kind of sexy when you see a beautiful woman enjoying a cigar. Sexy through incongruouty.

 

[Foxee Browne]

Not just sucking up to the thread's originator, but here is something sexy about a girl geek, at least to another geek.

If that seems odd to you non-geeks, it is sort of the same kind of sexy when you see a beautiful woman enjoying a cigar. Sexy through incongruouty.

I like cigars ..... nothing like a wine tipped cigar, smells good and tastes good too.

 

[only_more_so]

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

I don't really agree, except for dork. Both nerd and geek are pejorative and the negative connotation is social awkwardness/ineptness. Nerd seems especially coined to describe the socially inept people who thrive on computers and related technologies. Geek, while no longer strictly meaning a circus performer who bites the heads off of things, indicates someone who has a perverse fascination/affinity for a subject (i.e. a math geek, or a physics geek).

Of course, I am a bit sensitive to those terms because I stuck out for being smart at a school that is world renown for nerdiness. Anyway, unlike many of my schoolmates, I did not embrace those terms and take them as compliments. Why? Because the underlying connotation is that in spite of being a genius, a nerd is socially inept.

Geek, I'm a little less hostile towards when it is used in connection with a particular field. In that case it is more used as exemplifier, so the connotation of the word is downplayed. But maybe that's just my skewed outlook.