Completely ripped this off from Eric Burns again, a guy who*s starting to creep up the ladder in my mental list of interesting thinkers. He*s not quite up to Richard Harter status yet, but he*s getting there.
Anyway, this quote of Eric*s summarizes a definition of geekdom pretty effectively:
“…I find a geek to be a person who suffers under the impression that role playing games, comic books, science fiction, computer expertise, Mystery Science Theater, video games, the Muppets, the Society for Creative Anachronism, UFO clubs, web site creations, anime, Myth II, most cartoons and South Park are cool. If someone has more than three of those items on a list, they*re a geek.”
*counting* Okay, so out of his 14 items, 9 of them are pretty descriptive of me. Which is fine – like him, I don*t consider geek to be a pejorative. Mind you, this may be because I enjoy clinging to the obviously incorrect notion that the things that I like actually are cool. 
