Are YOU a Geek??

[kat]

Hmm..wish you guys lived near me..I have a computer sitting beside me that won't work and this one dying!!!

[GregL]

I think I largely qualify as a geek. I manage large corporate computer systems and the 'geeks' who look after them. I have two PCs on my desk, a laptop, a blackberry and my iPod touch...

At home... well... it continues, but

I also love hiking, caving, abseiling, mountain bike riding and road cycling.

I do long distance road riding and have completed the Paris Brest Paris 1200km ride twice (and a few other 1200km rides).

So all in all, I'm half very geeking and half not.

[kiley9806]

theres more responses on this thread as well - earlier obviously, so some different members responded. my geekyness is in there... What's Yer Day/Night Job?

[Mad Aussie]

I also love hiking, caving, abseiling, mountain bike riding and road cycling.

I do long distance road riding and have completed the Paris Brest Paris 1200km ride twice (and a few other 1200km rides).

You much more into road than I ever was Greg. Do you also do endurance MTB racing?
Have you seen my websites? mtbdirt.com.au and roadgrime.com.au ?
If you've been reading Enduro magazine for your mountain biking over the past several years you'd have read my articles and seen my photos. This year I've switched to Australian Mountain Bike magazine. I put 4 articles into their special edition that came out at Christmas and just submitted an article and photos for the next edition.

[GregL]

MA I'll check out your websites. I have not done any endurance mountain bike riding. My mountain bike riding slowed down when I had a stack in the bush and drove my right thigh bone (I'm sure there's a technical name for that) straight through my hip. Punched a hole straight through the acetabulum - the hip socket.

I don't have any side effects as long as I keep riding and keep fit. I think they screwed it together pretty well, but my head still remembers the pain

I still head bush, but just not as the same speed especially downhill.

I'll have to keep an eye out for your photos in the magazines.

[Greg_Nuspel]

Hi my name is Greg and I am a geek.

I start way too many projects and have the messiest desk around (A clean desk is the sign of a clean mind). Technology is my fix I can't get enough of it, learning just enough to be dangerous with most things.

The mountain bikers will like this panorama

[Mad Aussie]

Yep cool pano there Greg N

[Gem]

Ha! I'm such a GEEK! I was part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program in high school and also, Student Council. Lol, I guess we were all pretty nerdy since we would laugh at things like "I wish I was helicase so I could unzip *your* genes," and "I wish I was a derivative so I could lie tangent to your curve." LOL! Our friends in the regular program would see us and go "Wow, you guys are so IB." IB having become synonymous with geeky or nerdy.

And the geekiness hasn't stopped in first year uni since my first thought at realizing that the leaves were changing colours, was "oh, chlorophyll A and B are breaking down." I got teased A LOT for that one!

Ah, it's good to be a geek.

[kiley9806]

My mountain bike riding slowed down when I had a stack in the bush and drove my right thigh bone (I'm sure there's a technical name for that) straight through my hip. Punched a hole straight through the acetabulum - the hip socket.

YEOWCH! that sounds awful!! :( what was the recovery time on that?

[Mad Aussie]

Ha! I'm such a GEEK! I was part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program in high school and also, Student Council. Lol, I guess we were all pretty nerdy since we would laugh at things like "I wish I was helicase so I could unzip *your* genes," and "I wish I was a derivative so I could lie tangent to your curve." LOL! Our friends in the regular program would see us and go "Wow, you guys are so IB." IB having become synonymous with geeky or nerdy.

And the geekiness hasn't stopped in first year uni since my first thought at realizing that the leaves were changing colours, was "oh, chlorophyll A and B are breaking down." I got teased A LOT for that one!

Ah, it's good to be a geek.

No wonder you don't like my sence of humour