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Yesterday I noticed a round hole in the drywall of a marketing person's office at work. I mused about what various types of people might do with such a thing, and along the way I found a difference in how I use the words "nerd" and "geek". Here are my offerings. Feel free to add your own!
- An "engineer" would fix it.
- A "nerd" would ignore it.
- A "geek" would use it for something creative, eg, mount a periscope to show who's outside the door.
- An "artist" would hang something interesting-looking in front of it (despite the fact that it's at waist height an inch from the doorframe), or might paint sunflower petals around it.
Based on these observations, marketing persons are "nerds". ;-)
- An "engineer" would fix it.
- A "nerd" would ignore it.
- A "geek" would use it for something creative, eg, mount a periscope to show who's outside the door.
- An "artist" would hang something interesting-looking in front of it (despite the fact that it's at waist height an inch from the doorframe), or might paint sunflower petals around it.
Based on these observations, marketing persons are "nerds". ;-)
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Just because I said he was the least geeky doesn't mean that I was implying he's not a nerd.