Thread: so my friend thinks im a geek because im into c++

Where did you get that geek shirt? I want one.

Originally Posted by Thantos

www.splitreason.com

I got mine from www.thinkgeek.com ... I wanna get another one, or maybe one of the other techie shirts, once I have some money

See also the Jargon File entry on "Geek":
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/geek.html

Personally I consider geek a comjpliment. I would be annoyed if someone called me a nerd - to me you have to hav poor fashion sense and be somewhat bad at - not simply choosing to focus on other things - social interaction. Geek, however, to me at least, does not mean you're bad at social interaction; it means you have other priorities.

I also think it's impossible to like programming and not be a geek, at least to some extent - note how I say "like programming". You *can* be a professional programmer without really *liking* programming, and if you dislike it you're less likely to be a geek, unless you like something else like physics or math or something - you can be a physics geek or a math geek just like you can be a computer geek.

Two final links about geeks are listed in my sig (err.. I think, I'll add them in an edit if they aren't), around the part about my Geek Code (which I often attach to my emails as well)