Reply To: The Geek-Jock Convergence Is The End Of The World
I guess I’m a bit confused by the title of this topic (and of the song). I and my employees probably exemplify the “Geek-Jock Convergence;” in fact, we take pride in being “athletic geeks.” We scale rooftops; spelunk through attics, basements, and crawl spaces; make holes in concrete foundations and brick walls with big hammer drills; climb tall towers; dig trenches; lay conduit; drive ground rods into the ground and lift huge reels of cable to do one of the geekiest jobs imaginable: providing high speed Internet service. Sometimes, one of us will be dangling 50 or more feet in the air and stop to take a tech support call on his or her Bluetooth headset. (Yes, I said “her;” we have two female college students working for us now, and they both climb, run cables and machine metal.) And once we’re done with that exhausting work, we come back to the office, build servers, configure routers, work on microwave transceivers, and write code. (Yep, we’re code monkeys.) Every one of our current employees plays in at least one D&D game or MMORPG. One burly fellow (whom Paul and Storm met in Boulder; Paul jokingly called him my “minion”) is a former high school football star; we also have an ex-cheerleader. Two others came with us to see JoCo, Paul and Storm the last time they performed together in Denver; they got ALL the references. It’s not as if combining athleticism and geekery automatically results in some sort of matter/antimatter annihilation! 😉