I agree with "Plainsong" here and would also add you are a bit late to the debate, and it's getting to be a bit like beating the dead horse. here we have a social variant of the arguement I've been apart of for years (girls and video games) in that you're essentially agruing "I was a geek before it was cool." We are so divided as a subculture its re-fuckin-diculous. I cannot speak for anything but from the perspective of the gaming scene, but its like "Oh well, you play WOW? youre not a real gamer" "oh you only play games 25 hours a week? Youre not a hardcore gamer" when the fact of the matter is, we are all gamers or, in your case, geeks. We needn't subdivide further... and others are right... you only become the bully we dreaded in school.