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October 2009
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Given my abject lack of technical knowhow, I am always wowed by people who ooze tech savvy. Maybe it's because I still have a VCR (that doesn't work) and I somehow got a pair of socks stuck in my computer's printer. So, you can imagine my slackjawed awe when I interviewed the three co-founders of Redmond's OmniTechNews. They do product reviews for things that I can't come close to identifying. I think one of them was a cell phone that has a retractable phaser, but I could be wrong. Read the full story. The thing that was so amazing about these three young techies is that they are amazingly young -- just 11 and 12 years old. "We're not nerds," says Lucas Reif. "We're geeks." The difference apparently is that nerds will live in their parents' basements, playing video games until they're 30, but geeks will live in their parents' basements playing video games until they're 30 -- with a bank account well into the 7 figures. 2 Comments |
You guys can't get it straight where somebody's been shot. I just wish you wouldn't be manufacturing the headlines. Over coverage of a news item only makes all of you mis-speak your facts just filling in the time for something of substance to comment on. I'm sick of it.
There is a usage error going on here. A "geek" was the performer in a carnival sideshow act involving biting the heads off live chickens. A little like '70s metal concerts. A "nerd" is like what you apparently refer to: someone excessively studious or technically or scientifically savvy but lacking in social skills or graces. Don't think the kids really meant they were "geeks".