Merkavah - Drive the Lord's SUV!

I was going to title this 'sneakerygeekery' and post an assortment of sneakers for geeking out upon... but then I realized I don't really like sneakers anyway.

But I do like geekery.

Of course, for those of you who do not speak Ameri-Canadian, I must first establish the distinguishing differences between geeks and nerds, a common mistake to those that do not throughly understand the language.

Geeks are anyone with an extreme bent towards pursuits (often intellectual, but not necessarily) that are not the norm. For example, the people you see at Anime Cons are anime geeks. (Or comic geeks, depending on how big the con is and what artists are there)

By no stretch of any definition could you call them nerds.

Nerds are a sort of geek, typically one who 'geeks-out' over academic or technological pursuits.

Someone who pushes up their thick-rimmed glasses while peering into the bowels of your computer, shaking their head (keeping careful not to discharge any static, mind you) is a nerd.

I will confess to filling that role at times. (looking around, hoping the art-student brigade doesn't lynch him as a double-agent)

Computer geekery is the least of my little evils. While I am one, I have many other little obsessions.

For example, some people classify a football geek. (not American football, mind you) While I don't consider myself that at all, I do know many who, while they do not play football and could likely never kick a ball across a room, geek out over things like Ljungberg's new hairdo, or go on rants about how their team lost to some other team from who knows what arse-hole of the world.

Okay. So I confess to the bit about ranting. Maybe for hours. But it doesn't really make me a geek, does it? ...

Maybe it does. That's freaky.

For a long time, I was a Beatles geek. This, I confess readily to. I had Beatles playing in my room practically 24/7 (even while I played video games that were quite violent, after all, all you need is lo...BLAM) I owned several... uh... a lot... of Beatles books squirreled away, and had photos of them all over the place.

Total geekery.

I'm still a big music geek. Not so much as I once was... but I do have a f'load of music. People have a habit of asking me what is playing on the Radio. Most-times I want to choke them. It's either that I can't be expected to know every damned song on the planet... or sometimes it's just cause it's so obviously Morrissey (who is a GOD by the way)...

Hmm. So that's three. Computers, football, and music.

I also geeked out all night about making a D&D scenario, since I invited a bunch of people in my program to learn to play D&D. Geeked out all night.

Yikes. Four.

D&D geekery at that.

I think I'm going to stop there, I'm scaring myself. *shudder*