Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
I call myself a professional geek. I am quite proud to say that. Yet, oddly, I can remember when geek was an insulting term and not the definition–bordering–on–compliment it is today.
Or in short, I remember the 80s. If you don't, you're actually missing quite a lot, but I digress.
Now, being an old geek, I remember when the term was basically insulting, sort of a version of "egghead" and implying a kind of pathology or maladjustment. I remember when it was virtually the same as "nerd".
I really hate writing this post, yet I should.
This is the inevitable "Steve Comments on The Geekonomic Impact of the Japanese Disaster" post. I don't want to write it because, as I create it, the crisis is still going on and people are suffering. I don't want to write it because I don't want to get cold and detached and analytic.
I do write it because it is what I do, because the impact is important, because it is what I do for you, our reader.
I'm just noting right now I'm uncomfortable with this.
So Borders is bankrupt. No surprise, no one is saying, “oh, I didn't see it coming,” and no one is really saying much of anything. We knew thugs weren't good, we suspected the worst, and were pretty much getting it. There's just no surprise, just a kind of sadness.
So I'm asking myself this; what happens next to Borders?