My name is Monkeytrousers..and I am a geek

[Monkeytrousers]

(Am also a geek, but dwarfed by DP, who is SuperGeek)

A SuperGeek eh - wow how lucky are you? What would you say was his geekiest quality?

I am a geek but try to cover up the worst of it in public. Dh has some geeky traits (cycling/bikes/high energy drinks/high vis lycra clothing -yaawn) but denies that they are actually geeky in any way. They are.

With my DP it's computers, gadgets of all kinds and talking about science - he and I can watch a documentary about the shape of the universe and then discuss it into the small hours, for instance - thank god we save our friends from each other in that respect.

SuperGeek of course comes to my aid with all techno-related problems and will actually write bits of code to fix computer problems. He also sets up ridiculous amounts of tech relating to all the TV, DVD, audio etc. systems so that they need 17 remotes to operate them, all for the sake of some minor techie benefit that he's revels in but I'm totally unaware of...

I am looking at my new book from Amazon; "Professional Excel Development". I also got the joke about binary. I occasionaly frequent the ThinkGeek.com shop, and desire many of its wares.

By MN standards, I appear to be beyond help.

DH and I are both geeks and our DTS who will be 3yo soon, are appentice geeks.

apprentice geeks

i'm wearing a t shirt with the binary co-ordinates to Gallifrey on it......is that geeky?

Apprentice geeks....'geeklets'

Nice one!

Hey Snowleopard - if you'd said you'd got a new MacBook and were installing Gentoo, then you might have got some comments from the uber geeks... :-D

OMG!!! I've come home. Loving the binary joke. I want that t-shirt.

I'm a newly divorced mother of three happily wallowing in geekdom, and very excited about the thinkgeek website.

Nice to meet you all.

It would appear that we have been defined....

here

Snowleopard, a true geek would then combine the functions of the 17 different remotes into one super-remote which controls all computerised functions in the entire house.

We have one of those. Designed by DP. Geek extraordinaire.

I love John Hegley (took my aged parents to see him at the Oxford Playhouse a few years ago). DH frequents Think Geek and loads of other geeky sites, also listens to podcasts of New Scientist etc; when I worked, I used to frequent The Register ; I'm typing this on my G4 PowerBook and looking forward to saving up enough for a new iMac which I can then run parrallels on so I can still have my beloved WordPerfect (is that geeky enough?).

I think I might be a bit sad!

hmmm, I play at being a geek sometimes. I don't belong anywhere.

I think we've also bred a Geeklet. DS is 15 months and found him yesterday when we'd gone to a friend's sitting in front of friend's child's old iMac quite happily playing with the mouse and bashing away on the keyboard - and succeeding in doing things too!

OK, I may not have the geekiest DP. Booo.

But am also breeding a geeklet, who will take over the world! He is 20 months and loves using the 17 remotes, computer and mouse, as well as anything he can find with buttons to press. Our days out are basically a tour of lifts, EFTPOS systems and automatic doors for the disabled where he can press the "butts" (buttons). If I let him near the MacBook, he immediately does loads of stuff achievable only by cunning combinations of keystrokes - including managing to exit out of the supposedly child-proof AlphaBaby .

DP is so proud!

my wife and I forked and now we've spawned a child process.... :-) (it's going to be a background process for the next couple of weeks though...)

How do you define a geek?

#define GEEK

Some geek will no doubt try...don't be looking at me now!

I was meant to be a geek but somehow on the way I lost my true self.

NaI - see here - bottom Tshirt...\link{http://www.itiswhatitis.co.uk/t-shirts/male/4/binary}

try again - Geekness departed me for a moment....binary

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