One of the great
mysteries of the universe to my non-
geek friends is what geeks like myself do for
fun. How can you be entertained on a
Friday night if you're not at the
football game mindlessly floating through the various
social groups? These people mean well. They have a genuine
curiosity about the geek lifestyle. What can we tell such people who have no appreciation of
late night debugging or
recursive algorithm analysis?
To answer this
question I began using the
generic 'geeking out' response. My repeated use of this phrase caused me to consider just what I consider geeking out to be.
As a computer variety geek, geeking out most specifically
#includes (
haha):
1. Coding
2. Debugging
3. Doing CS homework
4. Debating programming language theory (
Java vs.
C++ and the like)
5. Installing
linux on
bitchy hardware
6. Watching
Pi7. Sitting in
discrete math class
I'm sure there are more examples of geeking out, but off the top of my head these are some
examples of things which make me feel especially
geeky. What do
you do to geek out?