Nerds and Geeks, a post in two acts
Act I
For the people who love nerds: The Nerd Handbook.
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
Yeah, sometimes.
The post discusses things like your nerd’s control issues, the cave he has built (which in my case is an armoire that I railed against, but ultimately had to assist in staining, sealing, and assembling. Nerds choose their battles sometimes), and their bitterness at being an outcast for years, and how it morphs into an awesome sense of humor.
The important start, though, is this: “Understand your nerd’s relation to the computer.”
A clever segue into…
Act II
Ten Reasons It Doesn’t Pay to be “The Computer Guy”.
I am not a Computer Guy by trade. For some reason red-green colorblindness disqualifies me, even though I know more about computers than most of the Computer Guys. The problem is that word of my knowledge leaks out to the wrong people. Suddenly, people want me to be The Computer Guy. Except I still have my other jobs to worry about, the ones I’m brought in to do. Nothing extra for being The Computer Guy, oh no no no.
So at the current job, there are no Computer Guys, as such. Just part timers, people who do what I do and also know a little bit about computers. No one knows that I know a little bit about computers, except for the 3 people that followed me here from the Ronald Reagan. They’ve been told in no uncertain terms to STFU about computers around me. It works, as I only do 3 full-time jobs there right now instead of 4. 
The downside of all that is that the computer I have is a complete turd that needs rebooting far too often, and the hard drive is about to die. It could use a good defragging, except I don’t have the rights to do it. I won’t ask for them, either, as anyone who could ask for defragging knows a little bit about computers, and could serve as The Computer Guy. NO, NO, NO.
