SpikeTheLobsterSexiest Geeks of 2008
January 1st 2009 19:58
Hmmm. I was just trawling around the web today when I ran headlong into this readers' poll on Wired. You'll have to forgive me for the digression, but I consider myself a nerd/geek (not sure I'm entirely smart enough for the geek appelation, though it'd be nice) and was rather bemused by over half the winners.
I mean, I can understand Marina Orlova, Jade Raymond and Danica McKellar being on there. They're all geeky (and yummy!). Stephen Colbert is kind of borderline, but I'll allow it because of his disturbingly in-depth knowledge of Lord Of The Rings! The other six have absolutely nothing geeky as far as I can tell: rien, nought, doodlysquat.
Maybe I'm missing something, but for me a geek is someone geeky, not just someone smart. Right? Anyway, I wrote a doodah about it over on AC because it annoys me when people redefine things like that...
I mean, I can understand Marina Orlova, Jade Raymond and Danica McKellar being on there. They're all geeky (and yummy!). Stephen Colbert is kind of borderline, but I'll allow it because of his disturbingly in-depth knowledge of Lord Of The Rings! The other six have absolutely nothing geeky as far as I can tell: rien, nought, doodlysquat.
Maybe I'm missing something, but for me a geek is someone geeky, not just someone smart. Right? Anyway, I wrote a doodah about it over on AC because it annoys me when people redefine things like that...
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