Other Career Choices

Am thankful the career choice I have now is not "Master Aviary Keeper" or anything involving our favourite descendants of dinosaurs. This would simply mean giving my GF lots more negative images about me playing with birds than she needs.

Today's shocker - the origin of the word "geek". Before acting as the surrogate word for pocket protector & Palm computer toting spectacled guy (or gal), "the geek" was the circus sideshow that had the gnawingly grotesque job of walking around with a dead bird's neck between his teeth.

Well...that was BEFORE the computerization of zee world...and geeks are now those who seem to splurge the linguo of 'USB dongles', '802.11g' and Firewire.