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Story: The essence of a Geek
Posted by: Archgeek of London (Friday 20 January 2006, 2:49 PM)
Geeks all have ADD? Truely these are the Johnny-come-latelys to temple of geek. The true geek has an attention span that can be measured in weeks and woe betide the questioner happening upon his deepest interest.
The older geek doesn't have ADD, they're just increasingly incapable of suffering through the morbid trivia and will ignore a mobile phone for just that reason.
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