Go L33T!
After a lazy morning of long-overdue blogbrowsing, I came to a startling conclusion:
I am not a geek.
For the first time in my life, I felt some shame about this fact. I am not a geek; instead, I am a geek-poser attempting to infiltrate the geek world. I mooch all the geek knowledge I need off my geek friends, so that I can get by without actually having to learn the geek ways.
I'm a fan of LoTR, HP, Star Wars, but I'd flunk a trivia test in a second and it wouldn't really phase me. I have a blog that I designed and maintain, but--here it comes--I know nothing about computers. Nothing. It's shameful.
Why do I do this? Why do I tread so close to the boundary of geekdom without crossing over? Maybe I'm just afraid. What if I go geek and I can't ever go back?
Don't get me wrong; I am a great fan of the geek population. I prefer, however, not to be assimilated.