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I have known for a long time that there is a difference between a geek, a dork and a nerd.

But I couldn't quite assay or explain to myself, let alone another person, the exact distinction.

Now, it is all clarified.

FINALLY: The Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram

If you use the term "dweeb" you are out of touch with the culture. As I am most of the time.

This photo, itself, is a geek item in that I did not know what a Perl shirt was and had to go find that Perl is a programming language and that the community is formed around t-shirts with geeky sayings on the front. Many people sell perl shirts. I am not even sure that perl is upper or lower case, a noun or an adjective or, well I don't get it either. So, another geekish, nerdish, dorkish sideshow to make the rest of us outsiders.

Labels: computer, culture