Taming the Beast
My first real acquaintance with the word “geek” came many years ago, when I made the mistake of endowing it in an epithetical fashion upon my sister, in the hearing of my father. I was made to discover, as punishment, what a “geek” really is, and to my immense delight the technical definition is, “a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake.”
Wow.
In that vein, friends, I desire not to sheepishly poke my head around the technological corner. Nay, I desire to open the door fully, indeed, to blow it off of its hinges and stride boldly through. I desire to tame the beast, to enslave it to my will, and to profit by its chains. I have therefore bitten the head off of this technological chicken, and can quite possibly be accurately called a “geek” hereafter.
I registered this domain name with two purposes. First, I wanted to get it before my namesake(s) did–if I should run for office someday, I want to have a decent domain name ready for my campaigning. But second, and more important, I wanted to see if I could pull this off. You get to be the judge of my success, I’m afraid, but so far I’ve been amazed at how much can be done with so little investment.
Now that it is working, though, my goals have changed. In the final analysis, I hope to use my little scheming personal challenges to profit others, too. Transferring my personal blog to this forum is the first of many projects scheming in my overtasked, underfunded brain. Stay tuned…
So please, take a look around. There may not be much to see yet, but I am planning on changing that, and I would love your feedback as I try to do so. And as always, you are welcome to throw flowers, tomatoes, and/or knives at my various attempts at humor, inspiration, elucidation, and whatever else may jump into my head and out through my keyboard.
If you want a historical perspective on my previous technological experiments, you are still welcome to visit my Xanga.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:01 am
Dewd.
Even after that definition, I still have no desire to be a geek.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:55 am
Well Gabe, I had intended to be the first to comment but I will content myself with second place. This should not be unusual for Hoosier like me since Indiana has had more Vice Presidents emerge from it than any other state in the union. In fact, Huntington Indiana is home to the only Veep Library and Museum. The motto for the Library is “Second to One.”
But to get to business I don’t mind being a blogger in the sense that I do things that until this time where hitherto unheard of. I do not desire, nor will I seek or accept, any offer to imitate the actions of the first geeks. I leave that for bolder stomaches.
-Brian Sikma
Indiana GenJ Network
Hoosiers For Traditional Marriage