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There’s been a minor shitstorm on parts of the blogosphere recently about someone writing an article about dating someone who turned out to be a massive geek. I don’t recall details, and in many ways don’t care very much.

But it’s prompted the Speak Out With Your Geek Out mini-campaign which you can participate in by, well, blogging about geeky stuff this week. Which I am. Therefore I must be participating now.

I suppose the campaign aims at demonstrating that geeks can be nice, and shouldn’t be discriminated against just because they’re geeky. I’m not sure if that’s the case. The campaign appears to be a bit less well defined than that, and I think I approve.

Regular readers might note that unlike my usual posts, I don’t seem to have a firm goal in mind when writing this, and am not trying to steer readers towards that. That’s because in some ways, I’m a bit confused as to why I am participating in this, exactly.

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