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Hello. My name is ____ and I’m a geek.

04/08/2010 15 Comments

Hello.  My name is Catherine Anderson and I’m a geek.

Now that I have accepted my geekiness, I realize that I’m also proud of it. This is new to me. I’ll use this blog space to show off my love of DNA, genetics and just cool facts.  I’m also hoping to do some cool projects like science cookies or a DNA scarf or ???

Do you call yourself a geek? I will often self-identify as a geek at my office job and people get concerned that I’m putting myself down – but I’m not.

One thing that does bother me if when someone confuses these terms: geek, nerd, dork, etc.  I have a handy venn diagram to help you see the differences.

What are you?

What are you?

So are you a geek? Are you proud of it?  I have put this diagram on a travel coffee mug and it starts some good discussions!

Note: I’m a geek but that doesn’t make me smarter than anyone else.  Some of the smartest people I know had trouble in school.

When I was in grad school, I had a ten step process for the question ‘what do you do?’.  It started with ‘I’m a student’ and moved into the final description of my project: I study how genes stay off.  Often, it was just easier to say that I worked as a cashier at London Drugs because I used to hate the reaction of ‘wow, you’re so smart’.  If that silly reaction happens now, I just respond with a ‘no, just wanted to avoid real life for a bit’. No more fake jobs for me.

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Comments

  1. Mark says

    04/08/2010 at 7:41 am

    Ha ha, brilliant. I’ve always wanted/needed someone to clear up those differences.

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  2. Hope Leman says

    04/08/2010 at 12:05 pm

    Love the diagram–too funny. It is only natural that a geek would graph things out.

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  3. Tiranna says

    04/08/2010 at 12:23 pm

    Was linked here by research news. I’m glad I’m not the only on irked by the response “you must be smart” :p

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  4. Joerg Kurt Wegner says

    04/08/2010 at 7:31 pm

    LOL, love the Henn diagram … that alone is sooo geeky 😛

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  5. Joerg Kurt Wegner says

    05/08/2010 at 8:35 am

    Technical thing, can you put the Flattr logo beside the Tweet logo, this would look less cluttered ?

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    • Catherine Anderson says

      05/08/2010 at 10:54 am

      That would look better. I don’t know how to do that = it’s beyond the limits of my technical ability.

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  6. Ivy Mittelstadt says

    13/08/2010 at 1:56 am

    appreciated this post!

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  7. jacabsolute says

    17/08/2010 at 4:08 pm

    Greetings. Looking forward to your new posts. Stylish diagram; have you seen http://xkcd.com/747/ ?

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    • Catherine Anderson says

      17/08/2010 at 4:10 pm

      Nice! I had seen that but was hoping that others had missed it

      Reply
  8. ms_mims says

    28/08/2010 at 3:30 am

    Quietly– I’m quietly a bit geekish.. The Venn diagram is nice.. May I contact you later about using it on my [in development] site? 🙂 -ta!

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  9. pozycjonowanie says

    28/12/2010 at 2:32 am

    Great Blog ! Regards.

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  10. Nam Zarlenga says

    28/12/2010 at 6:01 pm

    Thanks-a-mundo for the blog.Thanks Again. Really Cool.

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  11. Dr Stu says

    03/06/2011 at 1:24 am

    I’m a sucker for geek humour. You might also consider studying ‘the evolution of the geek’
    http://www.codigogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/geek-evolution.png
    It helps you understand your place in geek-dom…

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    • Catherine Anderson says

      03/06/2011 at 12:45 pm

      I do love the Evolution of a Geek comic – thanks for including the link.
      Thank you for your comments!

      Reply

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