The Geeks shall inherit the Earth.

 So says the bible. OK, it might have referred to some shifting looking crowd known as the “meek” but you know spell checkers these days, especially if you read this blog!  God probably wrote geek but the celestial spell checker mucked it up. So now that’s straight the reason for todays topic was a few weeks back it was International Geek Pride Day.  In celebration Modis surveyed 1000 Americans about geeks (link at bottom).  Apparently 2 out of 3 people aged 18 to 34 considered being called a geek a compliment, and 82 per cent of all people thought it was more acceptable to be a geek today than it was 15 years ago.  And nearly twice as many prefer to be called a “geek” (41 percent) instead of a “jock” (22 percent).

Jocks, who peak sometime before high school graduation end up paying for their sporting prowess with arthritis or worse.  Don’t tell me Lance’s man berry cancer wasn’t from all those “vitamins” to didn’t take.   And all those concussions aren’t going to help you win “MIllionare”.  Of course some of this change in attitude has been helped by any number of billionaire geeks like Bill “Micro$oft” Gates or Steve “Reality Distortion Field” Jobs. 

So be nice to geeks people – you’ll be working for them one day.  And no, geeks are not driven to succeed because of the rigor and stress of survival at high school.  

I leave you with this – no matter what, don’t go through life wearing a red shirt.  If you don’t get it your not in the geek club yet

http://www.modis.com/about/press-room/article/?art=20110523_1&type=pr