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MG: Geek for So Long

Transmitted on Wednesday, March, 2nd, 2011 in Uncategorized

The Modern Geek Chronicles:

Geek for so long…

I’ve been Geek for so long I’ve begun losing my non-geek perspective…and I’m okay with that.
Once a week myself and my two best geek friends get together for weekly shenanigans. Typically, this involves steaks, movies and/or video games. And while we’re all pretty hardcore geeks in our own right, when the three of us get together, the Geek Meter gets ratcheted up way past ten, and I’ve been Geek for so long, I hardly notice the oddness of it, but I sometimes wonder how it looks to the world around us. Here’s what I mean: Dive deeper…

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Heatsinks & Love: Seeking “Big”

Transmitted on Wednesday, February, 23rd, 2011 in Uncategorized

Modern Geek Chronicles:

A Geek Seeking “Big”

The ladies have known it for years: bigger is better. We like to try and pretend that it’s not true, even as we sit groggily on the couch at 3 a.m., watch those Enzyte commercials and wonder…look down at our lap…then wonder again.

(Yeah, go ahead, pretend it’s just me.)

But the simple truth is that, in a great many times in life, you want bigger. We geeks are no exception. We want “Big.” Big computers. Big hard drives. Big keyboards. Big games. Big mathematics. Big atom smashers. Big Geek get togethers.

We love Big.

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