Geek!

Funny thing.  My friend Dave Toole had one of those cool looking black Greek fishing caps back in college.  We teased him about it, of course.  We called it his "geek!" hat. 

The word stuck on all of us, especially Dave and I.  We became geeks, independent and in sync with the rest of the world, as we studied at UCSB back in the mid 70's. 

Little did we know that we would both go into an industry full of geeks.  How did we all become geeks?  Who started using that term first in the modern way?  I don't know, but I do know how two guys, and eventually two generations of families, found their passion working with a bunch of geeks.  Geek!

Click the pic to see the geeky gift Dave got special for me.

Thanks to renegade's show and tell video this morning for inspiring my own little Saturday morning version.  Sort of perfect story for "cartoon day" (lot's of toy ad's you know).

Comments

[Dave Toole]

GEEK!
I wonder if anyone would be up to the challenge of discovering the origination point of the term GEEK.
Where did it come from, who popularized it, when was it first in use (outside of our pretext), what was the context?
Who knows, maybe there will be a GEEK awards.
Dave

[Markus Sandy]

As usual Wikipeida has a great answer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek