Comment Not all eccentrics are geeks (Score 1) 162
Katz is way off base. I have ceased wondering if he just enjoys pandering to the Walter Mitty type fantasies of the Portman worshipers out there or if he is truly clueless.
Katz is trying to stretch the concept of "geek" to include everyone from ravers to hackers to people who build geocities homepages for their pet goldfish, or collect Princess Di thimbles and is really flogging this topic to death.
Not everyone who is weird/eccentric is a geek, Katz - get over it.
I don't plan on reading the book. Didn't we go through this before with the seemingly endless spate of Gen X books a few years back? Katz is really the closest thing the geek community has to self promoters like Al Sharpton.
Katz is trying to stretch the concept of "geek" to include everyone from ravers to hackers to people who build geocities homepages for their pet goldfish, or collect Princess Di thimbles and is really flogging this topic to death.
Not everyone who is weird/eccentric is a geek, Katz - get over it.
I don't plan on reading the book. Didn't we go through this before with the seemingly endless spate of Gen X books a few years back? Katz is really the closest thing the geek community has to self promoters like Al Sharpton.
