Left out again
Category: Weirdness
Posted on: December 22, 2007 12:52 PM, by PZ Myers
I admit I'm a a geek, so I'm disappointed in this cartoon that describes 56 categories of geeks, and I don't fit any of them.
Maybe you're in there, though…
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Where's the Science Geek ?
Dammit, I want a science geek!
Posted by: DLC | December 22, 2007 1:01 PM
Thanks a lot.
Posted by: danley | December 22, 2007 1:03 PM
The closest they come is a "Lab Geek," but that doesn't quite seem to fully encapsulate your immense geekiness, PZ. We need a "Reality Geek" I think.
Posted by: Dan | December 22, 2007 1:06 PM
There's a lab geek.
Posted by: junk science | December 22, 2007 1:07 PM
Oh come on -- not even a Book Geek?
You must be holding out for Cephalo Geek.
Posted by: xebecs | December 22, 2007 1:09 PM
The artist is clearly not a geek. I mean, Outdoor geek, fitness geek? Since when does jock = geek? Travesty.
A true geek would have included a browncoat.
Posted by: efp | December 22, 2007 1:14 PM
The Anime Geek looks almost like it has a cephalopod on its head.
Posted by: Chris R. | December 22, 2007 1:15 PM
That's what happens when you let a comic geek make a cartoon about geeks.
Posted by: hox | December 22, 2007 1:15 PM
PZ, you're just saying that because the Lab Geek holding the suspect material isn't smiling. Aren't unexpected results the proverbial font of innovative thought?
Posted by: Steve in MI | December 22, 2007 1:19 PM
Nah, it's because he looks like a chemist.
Posted by: PZ Myers | December 22, 2007 1:31 PM
Food Geek *raising hand*
Posted by: MAJeff | December 22, 2007 1:32 PM
Hey, there I am !
Ham Radio Geek...
CQ CQ CQ this is WA2YUH calling CQ and standing by for a call...
WA2YUH this is 9N1MM, Nine nancy one micky mouse. You're Five and Nine in Katmandu, Nepal, My name is Moran, QSL?
Posted by: elmer | December 22, 2007 1:34 PM
Apple geek?
Posted by: PeteK | December 22, 2007 1:36 PM
Yeah, the lab geek definitely looks like a chemist (although I wonder how much time chemists actually spend holding test tubes these days; my chem-geek nephew uses beakers).
But, PZ, you're a college prof. Doesn't that make you an Indy geek? You know, the kind of take-no-prisoners professors whose mild-mannered lectures can't conceal the derring-do of his extracurricular activities? I mean, all of us college profs are admired and envied by virtually everyone. Right? (Or have I been sadly mistaken all these years?)
Posted by: Zeno | December 22, 2007 1:48 PM
That's not easy when only 3 of the 56 are female....
Posted by: Rosie Redfield | December 22, 2007 1:58 PM
Most geeks I know, including myself and my husband, are a combination of a couple different types of geeks.
Posted by: Mena | December 22, 2007 2:00 PM
Yeah. Too bad there's no spot for Moron Geek.
Posted by: what? | December 22, 2007 2:04 PM
PZ, I think you are the geek's geek - it's in the lower right corner. Look at all the geek love you've already gotten trying to help you on this.
Posted by: Mike Fox | December 22, 2007 2:09 PM
...don't assume that is paint...
Posted by: Mike Fox | December 22, 2007 2:10 PM
I am 7 of the 56 kinds listed.
Posted by: OptimusShr | December 22, 2007 2:11 PM
Worst. Geek-categorization. Ever.
Posted by: uknesvuinng | December 22, 2007 2:24 PM
I think I need to express myself as a sum of "eigen-geeks".
0.4*(Lab Geek) + 0.4*(Engineer Geek) + 0.2*(Jedi Geek)
Posted by: Tony Popple | December 22, 2007 2:28 PM
I so want to be the Tron geek. Do such people exist?
Posted by: MH | December 22, 2007 2:33 PM
You just need to change the science geek's flask into an upside down octopus and you're set.
Posted by: poke | December 22, 2007 2:34 PM
Perhaps you are so geeky that you've begun to drift into nerd territory?
Posted by: Dan | December 22, 2007 2:38 PM
I hit 12 of the listed. And there are probably another 12 geek categories not drawn that I would fit into.
Although I agree with efp in questioning the whole accuracy of this drawing. Since when is a Jock a Geek?
Posted by: Calladus | December 22, 2007 2:43 PM
I think Tony Popple wins the title of "Geek of Geeks" for that post. All hail!
Posted by: Zeno | December 22, 2007 2:47 PM
Blog geek anyone?
Any taxonomy geeks out there will probably have issues with this one.
I used to be a lab geek, now I'm just a geek.
Posted by: VWXYNot? | December 22, 2007 2:48 PM
I don't see one for Pulps geek. True, the Conspiracy Geek looks like the Shadow, but stilll, no pulp geeks? We're a small group, but very much into the pursuit of geekiness. And what about a Writer geek for that matter? So many geeks missed and other geeks that shouldn't be in there...
Posted by: Whalehugger | December 22, 2007 3:00 PM
I mocked my idea up using my lackluster MS Paint skills and total lack of knowledge of the biology of anything larger than a cell:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/6941/pzmp9.jpg
I did my best to give him a look of gratification at being inked.
Posted by: poke | December 22, 2007 3:04 PM
No geology geek? How sad! Indy Geek and Engineer Geek have kinda the right feel, but really not quite.
And no zoology geek either, for that matter... needs to be a Gussie Fink-Nottle type character. Although poke's looks pretty good for that. Needs mud up to the knees and a lizard on its head.
Posted by: octopod | December 22, 2007 3:14 PM
@#23:
Oh, yeah, TRON geeks exist.
Posted by: Efogoto | December 22, 2007 3:25 PM
Can't figure out the link structure here. That loses me lots of geek points. The url is: www.eastcoastbob.com/tronguy.htm
Posted by: Efogoto | December 22, 2007 3:27 PM
efp and Calladus,
Ever hung out with climbers? Pretty geeky folks, if you ask me.
I'm ashamed that I only meet 11 geeks on the list.
And where is the Beer Geek? A travesty!
Posted by: Byte Reader | December 22, 2007 3:40 PM
Any taxonomy geeks out there will probably have issues with this one.
Yes, yes we do. My categorization senses are offended, not least of all, as pointed out above, by the lack of female geeks.
Posted by: MyaR | December 22, 2007 3:43 PM
Outdoor Geek? We're called gear heads... Besides you need 4 tents, one for winter, (A-frame with two exits and a pole on on the ridgeline) one for the campground, (big - heavy - very opaque for campground activities) one for the solo trail hike, (light, mesh upper half) and another for the extended trip (light, but with vestibule fly, and room for two people). Mind you, I rarely use them as I prefer the bivvy sack and mosquito net. Of course 3 stoves, (butane, white gas, and multi-fuel) are also necessary.
Now mind you, if I get selected for the Silk Road expeditions/excavations, I'll be ready for living on the steppes for 3 months!!
Posted by: Onkel Bob | December 22, 2007 3:46 PM
The Geek Code - even after over a decade since the last revision - specifies geekiness more accurately than attempts at geek taxonomy that have come since. I aspire to e++++ and h++ (or even h*). The Geek Code is quite narrowly academic, while more modern versions have pulled away from academia and towards more computer-oriented/lifestyle definitions.
Geek Code revisions now would include adding an OS X category and updating the sci-fi section to include Firefly/Serenity. Not to mention adding MMORPGing. And cephalods...
As for this selection, I guess I go in the Code Geek and Book Geek categories.
Posted by: Tom Morris | December 22, 2007 3:57 PM
Squid geek, or squieek for short.
Posted by: DrClown | December 22, 2007 5:10 PM
[delurks] I agree with MyaR. I counted three out of fifty-six geeks as female, or ~5.36% of geeks. Maybe my knowledge base is skewed, but I think that's far smaller than the actual representation.
Posted by: PK | December 22, 2007 6:25 PM
Girl geek???? Peh, stupid sexists. Scrapbooking or ren faire? Fuck right off. Is that cosplay one actually supposed to be a girl or a guy in drag? Stupid sexists. Peh.
Posted by: hecaterin | December 22, 2007 7:36 PM
I am not any either, I am some of them in part, but they just don't have religion geek (they also need anal retentive geek, for those of us who like to annoy our girlfriends with how movies are historically or otherwise inaccuarte).
Posted by: thadd | December 22, 2007 8:48 PM
"Although I agree with efp in questioning the whole accuracy of this drawing. Since when is a Jock a Geek?"
I guess they're making jocks out to be geeks in their extensive almost encyclopedic knowledge of, whatever they're, jocky, about. I have no idea how to word that.
Also I am actually 8 of the types, missed one on my first look.
Posted by: OptimusShr | December 22, 2007 9:05 PM
Ok, geeks, I have a question. This isn't something that is in progess right now but I'm hoping that it will be soon. For a girl's name, is Kimberlite or Marrella better? :^)
Posted by: Mena | December 22, 2007 9:56 PM
Why does the Linux Geek still have the price tag on his Tux shirt? Are they implying that we're all cheap and keep the tags on so that we can return the clothes when we're done wearing them?
Posted by: Timothy | December 22, 2007 10:23 PM
Do you even need to ask? Marrella, of course -- who wouldn't want to be named after a Cambrian arthropod?
Posted by: PZ Myers | December 22, 2007 10:49 PM
Nuh-uh. His basis is neither complete nor orthogonal.
Posted by: Epikt | December 22, 2007 10:57 PM
What about a birder geek? I've spent enough time at field stations with this extremely territorial species to think they have their own geeky ways. Kind of like an outdoors geek, except they prefer pre-dawn hours and have their own entirely unique mating call.
Posted by: katie | December 22, 2007 11:10 PM
Mena - Kimberlite...diamonds ARE a girl's best friend...
I'm not ANY of those geeks. I used to be a food geek, but I got over it. Waaahhhh...I'm a non-representational geek.
what type of geek am I?...Happy Homemaker Geek?
Posted by: CanadianChick | December 22, 2007 11:22 PM
correction - Happy Homemaker Musical Accountant Geek
Posted by: CanadianChick | December 22, 2007 11:23 PM
What? No Dr. Who geek?
Yeah, the percentage of geeks of the female persuasion is a bit on the low side, and what's listed is rather lackluster, though they are size accepting.
Hm. Well, no jelly baby for them...
Posted by: Rjaye | December 22, 2007 11:34 PM
If they had a language or word geek on there, she could have told them that they misspelled "collectible."
Posted by: Tom Foss | December 22, 2007 11:49 PM
Since we are talking about geekiness and femaleness, it would be remiss of me not to mention Girl Geek Dinners - a network of dinner events so that female geeks can socialise and network with one another and with the gentlemen that they invite along. They started - as many civilised things have - in London and have spread out around the world, although not to the U.S. yet (existing women-in-tech groups already exist).
Posted by: Tom Morris | December 23, 2007 2:44 AM
Augh, I wonder what was used for reference for the anime geek, because it doesn't look like anime at all.
Posted by: Reinis | December 23, 2007 9:05 AM
Re: #43 and #45.
First of all, I am at least 8 sort of geeks, based on the poster.
Second of all, I think there should have been a category for 'fantasy sports geek'.
Third, I've always thought that 'Soma' would be a terrific girl's name. As in 'exotic Hollywood starlet Soma Dendrite.'
Posted by: Scott Hatfield, OM | December 23, 2007 10:44 AM
I can't get the page to load!
Posted by: Amy | December 23, 2007 2:46 PM
What we're missing here is the true, original meaning of the word "geek". A geek was the guy who acted as a wild man in a carnival freak show, who bit the heads off live chickens, and did other weird bits of psudosavagery to entertain the gullabe and ignorant. Nowadays they're mainly to be found on(so called) reality television shows.
Posted by: Blind Pig | December 24, 2007 3:36 PM
Calladus: What do you call the sort of people who memorize huge swaths of sports statistics if not a jock geek?
Posted by: Keith Douglas | December 31, 2007 2:35 PM