From the Editor's Desk
Happy Geek Pride Day!
In a way, we're all really geeks...
I'm a geek. I suppose I always have been, but it's only been in the last 10 years or so that I've been OK with admitting this. I remember the exact moment, actually. December 19, 2001. The movie theater at the Lehigh Valley Mall. A midnight showing of The Fellowship of the Ring. As I waited in line, a high school girl -- arm-in-arm with a letter-jacketed boyfriend -- walked out of another theater, and looked at us like we were panhandling. "Who does this?" she hissed. "I guess we do, apparently," I said, more to myself than anyone else. "Yeah!" said a guy behind me, full of joy and defiance. "Geeks like us!" "I suppose I am a geek," I thought, with something like peace. I walked into see Frodo and the Fellowship, under the hum of …
