On Feeling Geeky

Originally published at Am I the Only One Dancing?. Please leave any comments there.

 

Fibonacci spiral with square sizes up to 34 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Image via WikipediaI have been spending the last several days planning knitted objects based on the Fibonacci sequenceand doing some swatching, and playing Lord of the Rings Online. I thought that was geeky enough until my husband pointed out that the purpose of building knitted objects based on the Fibonacci sequence was to show them off, explain what I was doing to a room full of math geeks, and preen (or alternately, mention it as a test to see if others knew what the heck I was talking about).  True that. I am possibly a HUGE geek.

 

That said, reading Ta-Nehisi Coates‘ column in The Atlantic often helps me normalize my geekiness. There are others just as geeky as I am. This column, for example, discusses old school CRPG and other RPG games and people are flying their geek flags big time.

I was feeling totally and completely normalized and less geeky than average until I came across this comment to the post (the whole comment thread is worth reading):

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