Posts under Tag: geeks
Chuc Mung Sinh Nhat, Huu-Tai

Forty years ago today… …the most wonderful thing happened.  A beautiful baby boy was born near the banks of the Saigon River in the city now known as Hồ Chí Minh to a U.S. soldier and a Vietnamese national midwife.  They named him Huu-Tai, which means skillful. Huu-Tai moved permanently to the US, embracing his Vietnamese and American heritages joyfully

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Lord I was born a traveling g33k

It’s almost summer which means @g33kguy and I are on the move.  Once we get past graduation and family visits, the remainder of the summer is going to be full of road trips up and down the East Coast.  Some of the trips are more official – for conferences or business meetings.  Others are more social but still definitely geeky. In late

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I am a geek!

Loud and proud! Anyone who knows us is fully aware of our geek pride.  We wear it on the outside – so much so that even our cars tagged with Geek plates.  True story! True, true. It seems that geek is chic these days, but we were geek when it was very uncool. On this soggy, unseasonably cool day, I

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I must object!!

Yes, I object. I object to the statement made by my dear husband, HeGeek, in his last post. We are NOT all geeks. Not even close. In fact, I must say that I am tired of all the so-called geeks out there – the wanna-be geeks who are the diet coke of geek – just one calorie, not geeky enough!!

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Geeks, we are not nerds!

I’ve been called a nerd before and I have always responded, “I’m not a nerd. I am a geek.” To which someone would ask, “What’s the difference?” Easy. A Geek is a nerd with social skills. To further back this up, I pulled up the always amusing, but sometimes informative, Urban Dictionary. Listed below is one of the definitions listed on

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