Hello, hello, hello... HELLOO!!! My name is Keith, Madman Extraordinaire. Thank you once again for reading my blog... Totally accessible, totally cool, totally great if you want to kill some time and burn some fat... Although the latter would most apply if you're reading this off a laptop while jogging on a treadmill set at 50 kph. Har har. I have recently watched several episodes of THE OFFICE (audience applause.wav) yes and I finally realize what the fuss is all about. Steve Carrell is a comedic genius. No doubt about it. The whole, I'm-yours-middle-management-guy-bossing-everyone-around-while-screwing things up routine never gets old. Well, that is if you're watching it. I think I'd be arrested for murder and sexual assault on a goat if I ever went near this guy in real life. Hehe. Now on to the fun stuff.

Earlier (meaning several blog posts ago, meaning two notches down the scroll bar), we were talking about the history of Geek with Sun Tzu, or ST, one of the greatest minds of all time, and a bona fide geek, if you will. Now today I will be talking about the modern perspective of Geek. If I were to ask you, not just you, but everyone else, what would first come to your mind when I say the word "Geek", what would it be? Well, I have actually done a poll and have gotten the following responses:

Dweeb

n00B

douchebag

(censored)

Virile, manly individual (this one's from someone's mom who's apparently confused with Geek and Hunk)

doofus

nerd

.... and the list follows the trend. Now, why exactly are people so hostile, huh? Well, most people aren't exactly hostile, but then have a tendency to stereotype the negative. When people think Geek, they think socially inept, living in another world, fantasy, spider-man, anime Joe. That, my friends, is not always the case. Geeks, like other members of the community, have their different degrees of geekiness, sorta like apple juice. I mean you got the bottled apple juice that just has to advertise in huge letters "APPPPPLLLLEEEEE JJJJUUUIIIICCCCCEEE" just so people know it's apple juice, even though people think it's just flavoring, sugar and food coloring, then there's the mid grade apple juice, the type that comes in those contoured bottles with pictures of apples and a farmer pickin' them on the cover, as if to assure us that these are made from real apples, which is practically obvious because, unlike the former class, they are actually put in the health food section as opposed to the beverage section and finally, there's the real apple juice with apple chunks left in them that doesn't even require you to know that it's apple juice. It's like some God - given instinct that you just know it's that. Hehe. So anyway, Geeks have different classes. There are those that are simply enthusiasts, those that are buffs, knowledegable and those that are, well, let's just say socially challenged. I for one consider myself a video game enthusiast. I know a lot about it, the companies behind it, the systems available on the market, I play games as a hobby, a past-time, I have thrown in money into the thing, but no, I don't do it all the time. No, I don't keep myself tied down to it. I read a lot about computer hardware, photography, heck, parkour and martial arts... All while (trying) not sacrificing time with friends and family. Geeks have layers and layers have geeks. Thanks for reading. See you next time... Remember. Geeks are apples! Thanks Steve Job!