It occurred to me the other day that I didn’t mind being called a geek. Indeed, I’d rather embraced my newfound title. That was kind of a weird realisation, but I know I’ve been in that state for a few months now. Now, let me clarify: I’m not a pocket-protector wearing comic-book lover who has their digital watch tuned to nanosecond accuracy. Hell, I don’t even have a digital watch 
It’s more along the lines of I understand things like abstraction and recursion and other such slightly scary computer science concepts.
I split my friends into two groups: ‘regular people’ and ‘people that actually understand what I’m talking about when I mention things that I’m really passionate about’. I don’t see that as a problem, I’m perfectly capable of having non-geeky conversations. For ranting about microformats and WordPress, there’s always blogging and IRC 
When did you get start admitting you were a geek? Or have you not yet?
