I'm a geek. And up until recently, I would freely admit this, but the past few months observations have changed my mind completely about the geek culture.

click read more or sighup | kill -9 in klingon There are some pretty popular stereo-types about geeks. Most, as any geek will tell you, are completely unfounded. We don't all speak klingon (or even like start trek for that matter). We don't have high nasally laughs. We aren't all either stick thin or morbidly obese. And we aren't all greaseballs who think spank material is the ASM-64 source code for the latest playboy/quake mod.

In fact, it's even gotten to the point where geek is chic. Or so I thought.

There are apparently two types of geeks in this world. The worldly hip ones with the latest toys and great looks. And then, then there are the other ones. The ones that shop in music stores. Like mine.

These geeks come in all sizes, but one thing is for sure. They have virtually no sense of hygiene. None. Which means that will immediatly seek you out and ask you inane questions that are completely unrelated to any goods or services offered in your store. And then mock you for not having an answer.

They will then congregate in the anime section and alternately argue with fellow geeks/themselves about the worth of the re-release of Escaflowne or how cartoon network has blah blah blah blah.

Then they will mock your PC software section. In the loudest voice they can muster, so that everyone shopping in the music store is aware that you can get a much better selection at (insert random brick and mortar/website) and then scoff that we "don't even carry X Linux distribution" Of course, if we did, they would bitch about the price and point out that only suckers buy the linux distros because they are soooo out of date (god forbid it not have the latest kernel source documentation for getting your 1986 atari 2600 to work as a backup math-co-hickey.) And then go on and on about how linux is free to download anyways, and that redhat is killing OSS and yada yada yada.

Fucking geeks.

And I swear to god, the next one that tries to pull music elitist on me and tell me about how great MC Chris is and that we should carry him (IT"S NOT POSSIBLE PEOPLE! READ MCCHRIS.COM FAGG0RS!) is getting bitch slapped. I, as a music store employee, am the only one authorized for elitist music attitudes. ferchrissake.

And finally, on an unrelated note: if you want to impress a stripper, properly identify her as a stripper in the parking lot, and have Warrant and Methods of Mayhem CDs waiting for her at the counter. Guaranteed she remembers you the next time she comes in. She will probably even get you in the club for free. God I love the smell of strippers.