Geeking Out Again

I said Bill was showing off his new chain saw. I said Vivian was talking about her power-washed deck. I said Trudy was shopping online at Travel Smith. And I said I was just writing code.

We were all geeking out, I said. But she looked over her shoulder at me with a quick glance and the squint of an eye.

It seems to me that you're the only one that fits that description, she said.

But no, I say. That was my point. I was not the only one. What was Bill doing, sawing out? Was Vivian decking out? Was Trudy shopping out? No. We were all just doing what we like to do.

And my point was that the term geeking out means doing what you love to do, to software folks anyway. Yet somehow, it's a label of derision?

Are we different? Are we not supposed to like what we like? Are software people somehow unique? Hmm...

Trudy might have been right after all.

I feel sorry for them all.

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