geek lunch
By lainie at 16 July, 2008, 5:44 pm
Today’s lunch was a soup-fest. Instead of one bowl of soup, jungle[8] treated themselves to the usual awesome salad and two bowls of soup each. One bowl held a helping chicken noodle, the other tomato. The flavors were anything but ordinary and spiced to perfection.
As do most lunch events at jungle[8], the lunch conversation covered some interesting topics. Today’s talk was all about geeks, the “Geek Squad” at Best Buy, and the “Genius Bar” at the Apple Store.
The geek talk was kicked off by the notion that Lainie Liberti, la reina de (the “queen of” if your Spanish is malo) jungle[8], isn’t the “geek” she thinks she is. Lainie seems to think anyone who’s into science fiction, is tech savvy and intelligent is a geek. Lainie, being all of those three, lacks some very notable “geeky” attributes. For one thing, she isn’t a social outcast, and probably was a member of the “cool” crowd in high school—not a cheerleader, but probably one of the semi-rebellious trendsetter types. She wears glasses to use the computer and read, but she doesn’t need sonar without them off and has no pocket protectors. Lainie disagrees, claiming she played Dungeons and Dragons in her schoolgirl days. HA! Right now, we’re doing a background check on Lainie see if she really rolled the octagonal geek-dice. We’re skeptical.
What exactly is a geek anyway? The author of this post saw quite a few—he thinks—at the premiere of Hellboy 2, where he admired an exodus of geeky looking people with glasses eager to be the first to see their firey comic book hero grace the silver screen. Lainie argued the Hellboy 2 patrons were not geeks, but nerds. The author countered with his contention that geeks and nerds look the same.
OK, then, what about Best Buy and their “Geek Squad?” Are they truly geeks? Go to any Best Buy and try to find a true geek with the “Geek Squad” uniform on, and you may be bummed to meet a person less tech savvy than you, can’t fix your problem, appears to be less than thrilled to be helping you, and can’t wait to clock out. The “Genius Bar” at the Apple Store seems to have a slight geekiness edge of the Geek Squad—if arrogance and sarcasm are indications of intelligence. If you have audacity to show up at the genius bar with an ipod that isn’t totally broken, don’t be surprised if, after mister hipster-zits fixes it, points out your stupidity and asks you why you didn’t try holding down the “menu” and “pause” button for 10 seconds.
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