‘Beauty and the Geek’ winner’s field guide to geeks

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It takes one to know one — and not all are created equal.

Josh Herman, winner of Beauty and the Geek: Season 2, tells Tango how to ID a variety of breeds.

The Manga/Comic Book Geek (Akira kryptonium)

Markings:Ink-stained fingers, Wolverine Underoos.

Indigenous to: San Diego Comic-Con — an annual convention featuring anime, toys, superheroes and overweight men in Superman T-shirts.

Mating call: “Looks like we’ll need a Comic-Condom!”

If approached: Be prepared to discuss who would win in a Batman vs. Spider-Man fight.


The Sci-Fi Geek (Trekkie matrixus)

Markings: Well-worn original Battlestar Galactica T-shirt, DVD boxed sets.

Indigenous to: Midnight-before-opening-day movie screenings.

Mating call: “You know, my framed Star Wars posters aren’t the only thing in this room that are well hung.”

If approached: Refrain from making any sudden movements around their limited edition X-Files, Lost, or Babylon 5 figurines.




The Computer/IT Geek (Macrosoftos)

Markings: Pale skin, carpal tunnel syndrome.

Indigenous to: Basements, Internet cafés, anywhere they can steal a Wi-Fi connection.

Mating call: “URAQT WTGP F2F?” Translation: You Are a Cutie, Want to Go Private Face to Face?

If approached: You won’t be, but your computer might. Know the difference between Windows, Leopard, and Linux. If he compliments your As, Bs, Cs, or Ds, save the blushing — he’s discussing disk drives.


The Science/Math Geek (Pythagoras MITulis)

Markings: Lab coat, TI-89 Titanium Calculator, pen marks on hands.

Indigenous to: College labs, secret science clubs, open-to-the-public lectures.

Mating call: “Baby, you’ve got more curves than an Erlenmeyer flask.”

If approached: Know your Poincaré Conjecture from your string theory. Or don’t. As all these are theories, just say everything with conviction, or “Maybe it doesn’t make sense—in this dimension.”

The Gamer Geek (Halo-tosis)

Markings: Cracking thumbs, Mountain Dew breath, Cheetos residue on fingertips.

Indigenous to: E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo — an annual tradeshow of games and consoles. Also found monopolizing the Best Buy gaming station.

Mating call: “Wanna hook up your Wii to my plasma TV?”

If approached: It’s safer to come between a mother grizzly and her cubs than a Gamer Geek and his TV. To be safe, always carry copies of Halo 3, Guitar Hero and God of War.

I am clearly a Science/Math geek (my major is geology).

Tim

I'm a science geek too.

I'm definitely a computer geek. Some moments, I even think like a computer, which helps me analyze situations in a rational way.

I'm nearly all of those (except the anime one...)

Does that make me a Trekkie Macrosoftos Pythagoras Halo-tosis?

Sci-Fi geek right here

I got boxed sets of Stargate (sg1 and Atlantis), Dark Angel (Watch it for the story lines... HONEST!), Buffy, Battlestar Galactica (original and recent), Firefly... and that's just the tv shows.

I also have lots of sci-fi movies, my own Sith costume (with lightsaber (parksabers.com) (see my website for pics of the midnight screening of Revenge of the sith )

Plus am working on my own fan film for star wars

And besides multimedia, I have two bookshelves (and a couple of boxes) filled with sci-fi books. Heinlen favourite followed by Usula Le Guin (Left hand of darkness and Lathe of heaven type novels more than Earthsea type ones). Philip K. Dick is right up there as well and i have most of his work. Fave of his would be Man in the High Castle... not how I would have pictured post WW2 alternate history, but pretty good read none the less. Prized posession though is a original print run copy of Moon is a Harsh Mistress. My fave sci-fi book of all time.

Oh, I also sort of qualify for Computer Geek as well. I have three computers. My eternal quest (which I came too late to do) is to one day get a cheque from Donald Knuth for finding an error in his books Pity he apparently hasn't posted one out since about 1997, and I didn't get my first copy till 99 So I've got some definite searching to do... hopefully there is a full stop missing somewhere still!

I also sort of qualify for gamer geek as well. I have a but load of computer games (go Civ!) and two consoles. An Play station, and an Xbox with roms of old atari 2600 games (so I can still play gauntlet and dragonfire). But I don't really play computer games any more.

oh yeah, seeing as this is the love and dating section of the forum...

ladies... you can take the above as my advert in the personals section

Oh, yeah, one more thing...

I think the word "geek" sounds too ugly... the word "nerd" sounds defining, moreso than "geek" anyway (probably due to Revenge of the Nerds), and since in general terms they are interchangeable, I usually describe myself as a nerd rather than a geek...

I'm a science/math geek. More science than math though... Anyway a Florence flask has a more curved shape than an Erlenmeyer flask. There is also an X-Files episode named The Erlenmeyer Flask.
Maybe I'm a little bit of Sci-fi Geek too.

Lol, all of those categories except the manga one describe me. At least my geekiness is well rounded.

heh.... if forced to choose only one, I went with sci-fi geek.

Luckily, my wife kinda' likes that - though I wish had marketable skill like the math and science geeks have.

I'm trying to become a computer geek - not growing up with computers has hampered my attempts somewhat, but I like computers a lot.