Many of my friends (maybe, so many) are geeks, but i’ve recently noticed that they are forked in two kinds thus I found completely fair to name as “Hedonistic Geeks” and “Parnasian Geeks”. Therefore, the hedonistic ones can also be labeled as “geeks from mars”, thus makes the parnasian ones from “venus”.
The hedonistic geeks
They keep doing computing stuff every single day of their lives, but it’s kinda enough for them. The rest of the days (vacation and weekends), are free day in which they feel the social duty of keeping at least a bit away from their computers.
Most of them have videogames such as Wii and XBOX, and it works like a “more social life”, they use Macbooks, and do use softwares such as iPhoto, Safari, Quicksilver and so on. Oh… yeah, I almost forgot, they use to have an iphone too.
Putting bluntly, hedonistic geeks can define themselves as geeks or not, because they don’t always accept their geekness to everybody. They are too cool for doing programming, hacking and stuff through the free days.
The parnasian geeks
Parnasian geeks love what they do, love what they are good when doing. They do programming and hacking for work, and keep doing it at the free time for fun.
They prefer Thinkpad as macbook, EMACS or VIM instead of Coda or Textmate. They dont have videogames, because they just can’t waste their hacking time playing videogames.
Instead, they create softwares suck as linux kernel, GNOME apps, python true stuff and so on.
Parnasian geeks are romantic with their geekness, and if they decide to don’t geeking in the free time, will not be playing videogames, but looking for people to have a real social life, to dance, to make the difference. And even to look for a partner to get married and keep their specimen in this world.
To be continued …