Funny. I thought that the idea behind being a geek wasn't to learn arbitrary and unnecessary skills. My friends and I'd always thought it was about taking advan

Funny. I thought that the idea behind being a geek wasn't to learn arbitrary and unnecessary skills. My friends and I'd always thought it was about taking advantage of our intelligence to learn things we thought we'd need to know or like to know in the future. All the stuff we learned - including the rare overlaps with this list - sprung from that need to know. I've met a few geeks who feel like there's some sacred path to being a geek that means you've got to know all the dwarves' names from the Hobbit, and I've wanted to hit them all across the face. Smug dipshittery is just as bad when you're a geek as it is when you're an athlete.