{"id":1055,"date":"2007-06-29T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2007-06-29T14:56:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T14:56:22","slug":"am_i_a_nerd_or_a_geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/29\/am_i_a_nerd_or_a_geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I a Nerd or a Geek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired.com<\/a> has a short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/magazine\/15-07\/pl_screen\">interview<\/a> with Patton Oswalt, who voices the lead rat in the new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pixar\">Pixar<\/a> film, <em>Ratatouille<\/em>. Oswalt, whom you may recognize from the TV sitcom <i>The King of Queens<\/i>, is a self-proclaimed geek who is proud of the fact that his midlife crisis consists of taking up Dungeons and Dragons instead of buying a sports car. I like how he differentiates between nerds and geeks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of nerds aren&#8217;t aware they&#8217;re nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, &#8220;I speak Klingon \u2014 who am I fooling? You win! I&#8217;m just gonna openly like what I like.&#8221; Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Based on his definition of the term, I think I&#8217;ve finally reached the geek stage. During the past ten years, it seems like I&#8217;ve been constantly debating non-geeks and even fellow fanboys over the things that matter to me &#8212; for example, you can search this blog for my entries on <i>Battlestar Galactica<\/i> and read the comment-war I had with a detractor of the original series &#8212; and I&#8217;ve finally reached the point where I&#8217;m sick of feeling like I have to defend the stuff I love. I love the crap that I love. I admit it, and I&#8217;m not so worried about trying to justify it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Patton is right: I feel much better now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com has a short interview with Patton Oswalt, who voices the lead rat in the new Pixar film, Ratatouille. Oswalt, whom you may recognize from the TV sitcom The King of Queens, is a self-proclaimed geek who is proud of the fact that his midlife crisis consists of taking up Dungeons and Dragons instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}