Think “Geek” is Over?

April 9, 2009

Think again.

I had too much fun with my first 6-week endeavor, trying to conquer the tech world, and well, whether or not I succeeded is subjective; to each his own.

However when I presented the challenge, “define geek,” many replies suggested it was just someone with excessive knowledge and/or enthusiasm in any field.

Given that, I’ve decided that you can become any kind of “geek” over a matter of time – a food geek, a music geek, a movie geek, a sports geek, a travel/tourist geek…. you get the idea.

So I’ve decided to take on a new challenge for the next six weeks, starting Saturday… The subject? TBD. Whatever it is, I’ll make sure to document what I’m doing to become “geek” status.

What do you think?

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42 Days Later…

April 4, 2009

My 6 weeks are up. I am 24 years old, as of today. OK granted it’s not entirely official til 6:19pm, so I still have like 42 minutes to go, but yeah.

I wanted to write this post from the ultimate “Geek” spot. So, I’m writing it using one of the new MacBooks, in the Apple store, in San Francisco (the tech capital of the world.)
Definition geek, right?

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Define Me.

March 31, 2009

What does geek mean to you?

I’m not quite sure, and yet for the last 38 days, I’ve  been trying attain that “title.”

I have 4 days left. My friend Shawna recently said this to me:  “Are you a geek yet? I’ve been reading your blog and not nearly enough mentions of digg and google reader for you to be a total geek yet.”

Which got me thinking… the word “geek” is subjective. I need your thoughts. If you’ve read this entry, PLEASE reply. It’ll take 2 seconds. It really will help with the ultimate goal (I only have a few days left!!) Thanks guys. :)

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DNS?! Like “Don’t (k)No(w) Shit?” Um. Help!

February 21, 2009

Alright so now that I have an established “space” in the cyber world, I figured I’d get a “dot-com.”

Ten minutes and $10 later… I’m now the owner of http://www.Geekin6Weeks.com

I had heard you could use your own domain for your WordPress blog.

Problem? I didn’t buy it from WordPress, – I bought it from GoDaddy (I guess all the marketing and sponsorship of  USC football helped) and now I don’t know how to link the two so that I can just have this blog appear on that domain. WordPress instructions mentions something about adding DNS addresses…and well, I don’t get it and I’m trying grasp an understanding, but failing. There’s gotta be an easy solution to this, right?

Eeeek! Help. The next time I post, I’d like it to be on this new domain. That’s my goal for the next 24 hours.

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