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But… what is a geek? I’ve yet to find a dictionary that has is right yet… (See footnote!)

So let’s just go along with Mike Sugarbaker:

anyone with a pronounced fascination or intellectual interest in something

So, here’s some stuff that I have a pronounced fascination or intellectual interest in...

Footnote

Collins English Dictionary (Third Edition; 1991):

geek (gi:k) n. Slang.

1. a stupid or ineffectual person. 2. a degenerate. 3. a sideshow performer who bites the heads off or eats live animals [C19: probably variant of Scottish geck fool, from Middle Low German geck]

How things have changed in ten years! (I guess it’s time I bought myself a new dictionary… )

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary at Mirriam-Webster OnLine is a little closer to the mark…

Main Entry: geek
Pronunciation: 'gEk
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German geck, from Middle Low German
Date: 1914
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of
- geeky /'gE-kE/ adjective