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Reasons To Employ Geeks: Avoiding Weedlord Bonerhitler

June 9, 2012 by Steven Savage

OK, imagine you decide to livestream a petition from the internet, printing out the various people who support your position. Supposedly.

If you tell your average Geek (or hell any internet-savvy person) they will tell you this is a dumb publicity stunt that will be trolled with stupid names.

The Republican Congressional Committee did not think about this, and thus you got signers like Weedlord Bonerhitler, which may be the most trolltastic name I’ve seen yet.

So another reminder of why people need you, my fellow geeks. You would have been able to explain in a few seconds why this was a terrible idea.

– Steven Savage
Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach for professional and potentially professional geeks, fans, and otaku. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/

Frustration Friday: Geek Isn’t An Insult

May 6, 2011 by Steven Savage

Hey, I see some of you loudmouths didn't get the memo, so let me set you straight. Geek is a complement now.

So if you're using it as an insult? You're a moron. You probably were anyway, but this is just confirmation.

Your Progeek Edge: Smell That Snake Oil!

December 15, 2010 by Steven Savage

To say the world is changing faster and faster is both A) an unabashed understatement, and B) a tiresome tirade that we see in too many lazy news commentaries (unlike this hard-working one, of course). We progeeks and profanes, being wired and technical, know the world is changing fast – some of us are responsible for it for that matter.

The world is changing frighteningly fast because of, let me state the obvious, technology. I imagine many a science fiction writer has watched the rate of change in the world and just thrown up their hands in frustration. Technology is one of the major drivers of change in the modern world.