The important thing for geeks is to find a good peer-group. I know that, personally, if I didn't keep myself up intellectually, I would fall behind my group of

The important thing for geeks is to find a good peer-group. I know that, personally, if I didn't keep myself up intellectually, I would fall behind my group of friends, and wouldn't be able to keep up in conversations. This comic: http://gibsonandlily.com/comics/index.cgi?id=13 http://gibsonandlily.com/comics/index.cgi?id=13 sums up what I mean (sortof). For me, I have tech. or politics, or science to keep myself occupied. That is what my group talks about. While group B is having a spirited debate about the one team of ball-throwers vs another team of ball-throwers, we might be having a debate about one group of politicians vs another. Its the same thing. For a technology standpoint, my friends and I all support one another. If I'm having a problem with a specific thing that one of my friends is particularily good at, I go to them to help me with it (there was a project recently where a friend was working on a REALLY large data set of climate information and was having trouble walking around in it. I, luckily, have a friend that works in the Computer Science department of a local Univ. specifically on these sorts of problems. She was the one that I asked to help us). Some people have friendships based on skills in basketball, I have friendships based on skills in technology. It is the same thing, my friends just have much less luck with the ladies :(.