Someone who bites the heads off of chickens. Oh - I would have said ''someone with a GeekCode'' - OleAndersen ''I ain't your father's geek. -- ErikMeade'' http://images.amazon.com/images/P/037550298X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho ISBN: 037550298X FastCompany has an article "How to Manage Geeks" available at: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/25/geeks.html ----- From the JargonFile: computer geek n. 1. One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfills all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. Cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black vs. white-on-black usage of `nigger'. A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called `turbo nerd', `turbo geek'. See also propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie. 2. Some self-described computer geeks use this term in a positive sense and protest sense 1 (this seems to have been a post-1990 development). For one such argument, see http://www.darkwater.com/omni/geek.html. See also GeekCode. ---- I wrote this a long time ago: http://sunir.org/sunir/writing/geek.html -- SunirShah ---- From UserFriendly: "The rest of the world suffers when geeks are in a good mood" http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020719&mode=classic ---- CategoryJargon