I get teased at work– a lot– for being the staff geek (dork, dweeb, propeller beanie, etc).  Part of it is my personality– I welcome good-hearted jibes, as one can’t be too serious all of the time, and at no time take oneself too seriously.  Intentionally or unintentionally, I do bring it on myself, both by my choice of an endless array of Thin Geek-motif-ed t-shirts, but also by language.  The other day I bought a few new cameras for my program, and someone was asking about them. I got as far as “They’re 10 mega-pix, with a 3.6 optical zoom.  They also had 4 gig cards on sale……”

“Woah! Dial down all that techie-speak there, dweebie”, came a shout from the next couch, “we can’t keep up with all that crazy lingo you are dropping. Hmmmm-mrmrmrmrm–hrrrrm”  (The last bit being a stereo-typical geek-noise, made by nerdlings adjusting their flux-capacitors, if you can imagine that).

Isn’t it funny how vocabulary identifies us? I was thinking about the obviousness of that this morning when I came across this “comment” left on my last post:

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The only thing that concerns me about Spam of this nature is the possibility of strings of it being analyzed sometime in the future, and the extraterrestrials who decode it and replicate it in an attempt to make contact are continually frustrated by our future-selves lack of ability to understand what they are saying.  They return to their planet/dimension feeling they have failed, when all along it was us….

That was sort of an uber-geek thing to say, wasn’t it?