The Geek Friendship

I kind of want to continue the theme of my last post. Bare with me people. I have a lot to say….

 

  The most essential thing of being a geek is what you “geek out” about. There are so many sub-genera's in the geek culture that, though we are alienated already we further alienate ourselves. The only thing that helps this isolation from the mainstream is the people we meet that share our interests. Our friends.

I have always been lucky to have a core group of friends that were all brought together for the love of the geek life. I met most of my friends when I was around fifteen years old. I, like many people that age, was trying to hide the fact that I was a geek. When I met these people I was finally able to geek out without the fear of judgment.

I wanted to get into D&D, I had friends that wanted to do it. I wanted to learn programming, I had a friend that was already learning. I was never alone in pursuing the geek things that made me happy. It is a feeling that to this day I cannot explain.

I am a firm believer that geeks have better friendships for the reasons I’ve already listed. We are a culture that is already isolated for being on the fringe, and its always amazing to find those people that share your pains and joys. Even when those pains and joys are about a new OS or the newest remaster of Star Wars. Hell people are even making money giving geeks a place to come to meet other people just like them.

When I fell out of tech for the short while I lost friends as well. I know I will never lose these people forever because they are so much a part of my life, but what do you talk about when your not talking about the one thing that makes your life? This post is dedicated to all my friends that have pushed me through the years. the ones that wouldn’t let me give up after I tried installing linux for the fifth time or when I couldn’t learn a programming language. Friendship isn’t always forever, but when you’re a geek it is.

 

This is for all the geeks….and your friends.

 So I started out with a post idea about netbooks and how other blogs are talking like they are a thing of the past and that got me thinking about so much more.
 
   Even though I am hardly a blogger and I keep this blog for pure entertainment I always do a little research before I post. So while I dug out the netbook, blew the dust off and booted up I felt something. I felt like I've been missing something for awhile and the short and sweet of it is technology.

  At the beginnning of the year I started working for a company doing web design. The company did race prep for Ferrari. While I was working for the company I fell in love with the excitement of racing and have stayed with it for the past year. I left that company for another to be closer to the racing and further away from the technology that I began missing. I became a drone. I only used computers to check email and do work related tasks. In short I began hating it.

  Over the summer I drifted further and further away from doing what I love to working a job that I dislike more and more because it takes me away from tech. Sure, I've done some traveling and I've seen and learned some great things but I can't be happy without being totally immersed in the tech world.

 All it took was an article about breathing life into a netbook for me to realize that I have so much more to offer in the tech world than I do in the race world. I love blogs, youtube, how-to's, hacks, tweaks, everything geek! I know the readers of Modern Geekery (all 2 of us) have heard this before but I'm back baby. I'm feeling refreshed just typing this post on my little Acer Aspire One. I can't wait to see where tech takes me again and I hope your ready for the journey.