How do you define what a geek is?
According to Wikipedia, part of the meaning is:
The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast or a person obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit.
If we are to go by this definition I would absolutely consider myself a Geek, and proudly so, as I would not see anything wrong in being very interested in your hobby, even though "obsessed" would have a very negative ring to it and more used to describe stalkers.
What are the hobbies that I would consider myself to be very interested in?
Well, poker has for the last 15 years been a major part of my life, mainly as I for almost 10 years lived from my poker winnings, even though there were months where I barely made it work, I still managed to keep it up for just about 10 years, this however had its downside as well.
Being a full-time poker player and mainly playing online, this would mean that I spent most of my time during a day and night was in front of a computer and having only a few short bursts of time for eating.
To explain that further, that was mainly due to me playing tournaments online, and when doing so, you had 5 minutes of paus every hour, and if you took a paus at another time, you would lose chips and also miss out on hands that could have gained you more poker chips.
The easy way for this was to order food and have it delivered to you, and you avoided the cooking of food, since this took time you considered yourself not to have, and being lazy and sitting still and eating junk food, we all know this is far from a healthy lifestyle.
It got me to gain even more weight, and to spiral and become even more lazy, and all this of course is a very bad spiral from which I have yet to get myself out of.
Further to this, what do you do when you have a lazy lifestyle, you spend more time doing lazy things, and even though I have always loved movies and tv-shows, this interest has grown even more in the years that has past.
So much so, that now when I see a new show coming, I way to easy identify flaws and bad casting and even though this is a good thing, as it stops me from spending time watching 4 to 7 episodes just to then hear the show has been cancelled.
You also quickly learn that some actors just cannot be a leading man/woman in a show, and this as well may lead to a show being cancelled, but I will also admit that I am trying to grow my pallet for shows, as I have been very judgmental when it comes to some shows.
For example, I have always been somewhat negative to Swedish tv-shows, mainly due to the poor budget, which often lead to more comical and amateurish look of a show, however this has changed a lot in the last few years and I am proud to say there are several really good Swedish shows out there.
I will try and give some recommendations of some of the shows I like in coming posts, in case there are some of you that want to have some tips and suggestions.
Best regards,
J
J
