ThinkingGeek: Introduction

When I was about eight or nine, I read John Katz's "GEEKS" and I thought it described me pretty well (although now the book is laughably outdated). I'm a self-described geek and I'm unashamed of it. But in saying that, I think it's important to acknowledge the changing face of the geek. I'm not particularly socially awkward, I have no computer hacking skills, I don't have a fishbelly complexion and I could hold my own in a fight. Yet I feel inexorably linked to geek culture. I think "geek" culture has grown to encompass all sorts of different fields but I don't think the ethos has changed much. I'm a hard-line vegetarian, a rough-and-tumble improvisationalist, a techno-speculator, a zombie apocalypse believer, a circuit bender, a Maker, an anti-Maker, anti-matter, a halfling rogue on a mission for blood, a half-elf bard on a rambling road, a sometime-homebrew table-topper, a big fan of tablehooters, a creator of long lists, a militant cyclist, a two-bit internet columnist, and a queer. I am anything but boring.