what? you say. cuts own hair! in what way is that geeky?
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I've been exposed to a lot of 'geek' definitions recently (see especially www.innergeek.us) and I Want a Man.
Alongside realising that I love geeks *best* (how can you not love people who get so interested in things, and have a compulsion to engage in them - often right up to the elbows?), I've started to notice distinctive geek spoor in my own life. Right up to and including ability to pay more attention to a weird technical thing more than people.
Okay, *that* bit is a little less endearing (and due apologies to any co relationship creator people who have had to endure it).
cutting one's own hair (well) indicates:
* willingness to try things, even if they make you look silly
* determination to try to learn how to do things (or how they work), even if that makes you look silly and takes 5 times longer when you do it yourself
* weirdly arrogant conviction that you can do it better than the professionals (even if you end up with non existant service for 20 years)
* delight in self-sufficiency, particularly in an odd area ("Hey look! I can refine my own oil!")
* enjoyment of the functionality of getting to have a hair cut at 2.30am while drunk (even if you end up looking silly).
:)
.carla
Posted by carla at June 19, 2003 05:13 PMSo I was a geek even when in the monastery? Wow. Actually, I don’t think shaving one’s head as a symbol of world renunciation counts in any of the ways you mention, but I was probably still geeky — does arguing comparative religion with Buddhist monks count?
Posted by: Jamie at June 20, 2003 10:45 AMMy boy cuts his own hair, and I am not sure if this makes him a geek, because he tends to give himself haircuts that make him look like a devastatingly sexy (biased? me?) fashion victim.
However, he got something like 31% (apparently extremely geeky) on the geek test, so there you go.
Posted by: Eleanor at June 20, 2003 01:13 PMAm I to guess that you've ended up looking silly? Reminds me of Calvin getting his haircut by Hobbes. It's amazing how well a marker will cover things up.
Posted by: kim at June 20, 2003 03:27 PMI only got 26.23274% - Total Geek. The worrying part is that I'm disappointed I didn't score geekier.
(The lowest is "geekish tendencies" I guess if you had no tendencies at all you wouldn't have found the test in the first place, huh?)
Posted by: Fi at June 21, 2003 12:10 PMI didn't end up looking silly often. And that was probably more to do with the style I was attempting than a generic failure.
I think the geeky part was more to do with the oddness of even attempting such a thing. Mainly that it is possible to express geekiness even when making a fashion success. :)
.carla
Posted by: carla at June 21, 2003 10:04 PMI didn't think you ever looked silly. The photos of you will a completely shaved head are odd, but that may be because you were going out with Iona at the time, and that in itself weirds me out these days. Funny, it seemed totally normal at the time.
Posted by: Eleanor at June 23, 2003 02:44 PM