I gotta say, when I saw the title of your post I was a little sceptical but you’ve convinced me. So, how do I sign up and where do I find these mega-lover geeks?! :)

If you know where the good ones are, by all means, point me in their direction!

Can’t say if the cyclists were “quality men” (great expression) since I didn’t really talk to them, but at least I saw many good-looking ones. Maybe it’s just the combination of a 3-day beard and a bike.
When I was there cyclists used to greet themselves, so you maybe can try that ;)

Although, it’s tough to find many cyclists this time of year - everyone is trying to navigate the ice-encrusted sidewalks without spraining or breaking something.

I’m a fan of spring and summer - when I can break out my flirty sundresses and sandals, and the men are out in full force in cargo shorts and faded Red Sox caps. This girly girl is a sucker for a sexy, scruffy man in a Sox cap…

sorry, I forgot about the hard winters in New England. It’s truly no fun to bike when it’s snowing.

1. Some geeks have sub-optimal personal hygiene, and do not brush, floss, and bathe frequently enough. Of course, some geeks are very tidy geeks.

2. Some geeks are Aspergers-like, and perserverate on narrowly defined bands of interest. If you’re just not that into their particular geeked-out set of interests, some geeks can be rather poor company. Of course, some geeks are exactly the opposite, so this is nowhere near pervasive.

3. Some geeks have poor social skills, are not perceptive about non-verbal social cues , and tend not to notice things about their girlfriend, that their girlfriend would like them to notice, like that it’s her birthday, or that it’s your 1 year anniversary of the first time you held hands on the Subway home from a movie, and things like that, or that she’s frowning ever so slightly at you and wants you to ask her what’s bothering her.

4. Some geeks have no self-esteem. I experienced this one personally. As a geek with low self esteem myself, I have willingly entered into a relationship with a woman I had nothing in common with, and admired absolutely nothing about her, nor was I even attracted to her. I accepted her advances because I felt I deserved nothing, and that nobody would want to be with me, just because of particular things about me. This dooms a relationship. Make sure the geek you select is capable of being picky and rejecting people he doesn’t like, or you may find out later that he really isn’t into you at all, but he will definitely accept any and all female attention that is offered, because he is, in a word, desperate.

I am not saying even that any of the above are common, or frequently the issue, just that people are individuals, and many geeky individuals will have one of the above issues that may put you off.

Warren

Geeks make good lovers - Tue Apr 20 2004 at 20:39:33
http://everything2.net/index.pl?node_id=1532839

I don’t think I’ll repost anything else from my e2 days, though.

Or sometimes they (and by “sometimes they” i mean “i”) will notice, but refuse to get drawn into that and so they ignore it.

If you want to talk, i’ll talk. But i’m not going to play some “If you really love me, you’ll ask me what’s wrong” game in the interests of proving my worth. You can keep that sort of passive-aggressive testing away from me, because i’ll fail it proudly every single time.

(I’m totally guilty about the rest of the stuff, though. I barely remember my own birthday, let alone anything else…)

Err… no. I’m not even a geek, but I’m sure I speak for them everywhere when I say, what are you talking about? I know there’s a certain sexyness in a lot of nerdy comic book things and certain games, but elvin incest? You went too far….;)

Another good place to look for geeks is on World Of Warcraft, make sure you do an age verification before commiting to a 12yr old.

Don’t forget geeks are often good with our hands. We’re handy around the house, and we can handle all the A/V gear - and enjoy it. :-)

Mist 1 - Only the unethical, immature geeks. While I may have played around with, uh, unauthorized access shall we say, back in college, I would never violate someone’s personal information. It just isn’t ethical. As an IT Director I can access pretty much anything at work - everyone’s email, files, IM messages, etc. I don’t just because I know it isn’t right. You need to find an ethical geek. :-)

Browneyedgirlie - Oh, I *know* there are a lot of single geeks in Boston and Metrowest. (I live in Worcester and work in Marlborough.) You have the entire 128 Corridor of High-Tech companies packed with geeks. I’m sure you can find one. ;-)

Anonymous - You just need to find a geek who has geeked out on sex, and/or educate them. Some geeks know quite a lot of about anatomy and what to do with it.

Warren - 1-3: Yeah, there are geeks, then there are the otaku or similar level geeks who Do Not Play Well With Others. The ones who give geeks a bad name. Geeks can be better about important dates though - that’s what PDAs are good for. Never forget a date - put it in your Treo. :-) 4. A lot of geeks have self-image issues, I’ve been there too. A lot of that is because society long poked fun at the geek, and we absorb that.

Why Geeks Make Good Lovers. Od zawsze wiedziałem, a teraz mam na dodatek naukowe potwierdzenie!…

you have definitely opened up my eyes to geeks now….

although, i did date this one semi-geek in college. he cheated on me. so not all geeks are good geeks.

but they do have their advantages……excellent post. thank you for educating your female readers. :)

Hmm, I thought that was all men.

I got my first Console, an Atari 2600, at the age of 5, typed in my first lines of Basic by the age of 8 and installed Borland C++ 3.1 aged 12, but could use Assembler only for about one year, because I had no extended memory in my machine.
Today I am 25, a Diploma Computer Scientist and Linux Server Administrator at a University, secret graphics artist, I can type faster than many people read, play Tetris in Death Mode for the fun of it and am an undying romantic with a weak spot for poetry, that appreciates music for it’s mathematical beauty, geeky by nature.
I know exactly what this article is about, but I seem to have incredible compatibility issues with most mainstream motherboards… Although the hygiene part is not the problem, I wash every day (even my hair!) and know the definition and use of terms like peeling, body lotion, after shave and Pantene Hair Repair, though none of them is digital. Maybe the Interfaces I want them to implement are too precise in their declaration, because of the heavy super Interfaces they extend. Often they fail a considerable amount of my checkstyle and Unit tests and in most cases they don’t come with a development repository or debian packages for a simple update. Yet what I need is very simple:

public HappyGeek wishComeTrue() {
Geek you = new Geek();
me.love(you, Time.INFINITY + 1);
you.love(me, Time.INFINITY + 1);
you.marry(me);
me.addToFamily(you);
Iterator children = you.getChildIterator();
while (children.hasNext()) {
Child newChild = children.next();
you.giveBirth(newChild);
me.love(newChild, Time.INFINITY);
me.addToFamily(newChild);
}
me.makeHappy(me.getFamily());
if (you.isHappy() && me.isHappy
&& you.getTetrisScore()

am a loser

and in my experience, the male geeks are normally a bit more focused on their internet images of women so they don’t even see a female (excluding model-beauty) geek in front of them. Sigh.

Sì, lo ammetto, mi è capitato di leggere Pinkblog. Ma a dirla tutta, è sempre divertente per un individuo di sesso maschile leggere articoli rivolti al mondo femminile.
…

I am all about geeks now. Hopefully the next one will not live in a sty.

And we -ARE- good in the sack. ^.^ Though we need to be tought.

I still don’t know where the hell the G-spot is…

Q.Q

I think it is incredibly superficial to just “try geek dating on for size.” Get involved with someone because you have something in common with them. Trust me, as appealing as geek dating might seem to you - if you don’t enjoy endless conversations about the soon-to-be-released Robert Jordan novel, why Terry Pratchett is pure genius and an excellent social commentator, or why Monty Python is comedy for the smart masses then leave while there is still time. Also, cliche as it is, if you don’t have appreciation for gaming and/or see hours upon hours of WoW, Magic, or D&D as a waste of time than you are completely barking up the wrong tree. Trust me, for the most part that’s not something you learn to appreciate it. Either take it or leave it, and if you would rather “leave it” I feel I speak for most of geekdom when we say don’t let the door hit you on the way out. We’d rather take that, thatnmonths/years of disdain for our chosen hobbies when we don’t have anything bad to say about the interests that you choose to entertain.

Geek boys are so worth it.
Thanks for the wonderful blog.

They’ve got good fingers too.