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[Golfhaus]

Which one(s) are you?

Me... I'm thinking about 80% Travel Geek, 10% Webcomic, 10% Gadget Geek.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I cant find "economics geek". But I guess history geek is pretty close.

[littlefallsmets]

Conspiracy geek... comics geek... film geek... rock geek... book geek... many geeks am I.

While I'm working on the book, though, book geek and conspiracy geek are in ascendance.

[jaydub]

Hmm, lab, fitness, and I guess geek geek.
Lab geek twice over, since I do it for work, and I brew beer.

[linnea]

We are as many as the colors in nature, friends.

I guess I'm mostly an engineering and webcomic geek. I also geek out about food, books, photography, and art.

[Limmo]

Jedi and Rock geek, ferdamnsure.  Reformed Trek geek.  Aspiring Fitness geek.  Too bad Zeppelin geek is not a category.

[melack]

Nintendo geek
Portable geek
Sports geek
Apple geek
Travel geek
Rock geek
Book geek
History geek

That's what I am. But some of these... Tron geek? Can you really be a Tron geek? That was just one movie, right?

[chuanoplast]

There is a severe lack of origami geek in that picture, and papercraft just won't cut it. I mean, what kind of person uses glue and scissors on paper?! It's nearly profane.

Other than that, I think Nintendo, Apple, book, and food geek work for me.

[theinevitable]

I hate this geek classification system. Hate it to hell.

The things I really geek out about, though, are film and psychology. sometimes anthropology.

I wouldn't really say I am a music geek, but I probably am.

It's just that exclaiming "listen to this guitar solo!" just doesn't seem geeky. whereas, you know, saying "look at that cut! look at that fuck*ng jump-cut!" is. or, for instance, "man, episodic memory is instrumental in future planning, most likely because the mechanism which allows us to reconstruct past events is the same as that which allows us to imagine future ones."

I guess the most geeky thing is that... random things throughout the day make me think of psych experiments.

[Limmo]

It's just that exclaiming "listen to this guitar solo!" just doesn't seem geeky.

It's good to hear you say this.  I have a playlist on my iPod which is my 133 favorite guitar solos, and I was starting to worry that that made me a geek. 

[jay-ell]

That's what I am. But some of these... Tron geek? Can you really be a Tron geek? That was just one movie, right?

A movie, a soundtrack album, an arcade game, two PC games, and I believe a book.  Those are the ones I can name off the top of my head. 

Let's check Wikipedia. 

Two arcade games, three Intellivision games and two Atari games.  There was only one PC game; I was thinking of Tron 2.0 and Killer App, but the latter was only released for XBox.  There's a movie sequel in production.  There is also a current series of comic books.  And a number of fan websites, of course. 

So, yes.  You really can be a Tron geek. 

I do have to say, though, that there are some types of geeks missing.  Where's the knitting geek?  The LotR geek?  The MATH geek, for Pete's sake.  How could you forget the math geek? 

I would say that if I could define my own geekiness, I would have to be a sumptuous blend of history geek, gamer geek, and knitting geek.  I also have an unnatural amount of academic knowledge about Autism spectrum disorders and non-standard sexual practices.  I'm not really sure what that last one says about me.  I blame you guys.  If it weren't for this board, I wouldn't find myself always having to google stuff like "female prostate."

[lprkn]

Seems like one could probably make a porn adaptation of Rainman, thereby combining a couple of one's Interests.

Think I'll stop while the stopping's good.

[JorgeFabregas]

This taxonomy of geeks seems queer.

[lprkn]

It would seem that there is a geek not pictured. The geek geek.

[CortJstr]

It would seem that there is a geek not pictured. The geek geek.

Uh... bottom right. The artist painted himself.