How do you define the alpha geek identity? Is it the guy who writes down a beautiful piece of algorithm in notepad or on a piece of paper, or is it the guy who

How do you define the alpha geek identity? Is it the guy who writes down a beautiful piece of algorithm in notepad or on a piece of paper, or is it the guy who knows everything about the latest cool things, but maybe never programmed? Is it a 'long-beard' or a tech journalist? Is it Donald Knuth or Michael Arrington? As far as I am concerned I was always a geek in the first meaning of the word. When I was young we were competing with my friends to write the fastest polygon filler routine in ASM. I was never really a geek in the second meaning. I was mostly late with the newest gadgets, I don't use yet Facebook and I am not yet on Twitter. I did not care too much about what OS I use in case it was not really important.