My computer geekiness began around the age of 12, (1977) when i wrote my first little nothing program (in Integer BASIC on Walter Wright’s Apple II—not even Plus) and realised that i could make the machine do anything that i could explain to it. It struck me as an electronic equivalent of Lego blocks and Erector sets—more evidence of a geeky childhood.

It didn’t immediately sink in that these things made me a weirdo; but the normal people made that clear, soon enough. I suppose the real test of my geekiness was that i liked thinking and technology too much to give it up for popularity.

I’ve come to realise that all technology throughout history, from spacecraft to the wheel, has come from people who were not normal—people whose minds worked differently from the majority who never thought beyond carry and drag, untill the weirdos gave them something better. (And they treated them like dirt for being weirdos, even after.) [Stick that in your cell-phones and smoke it, ungrateful fashionable people!] ;)

The knowledge of being a geek sure felt different but it came with bad stuff too, but i wish not to explain them. My latest geekynes was to join the geeks,pirillo.com and help out the community on there as well. I have been very active on geeks and have created groups and great discussions on the website as well for people to comment and see. So yeah these are the things i have done to be and feel geeky in the live.pirillo.com community and in my past. I hope to become more of a geek as I become more older and mature.