From what I can tell, my American readers use the terms geek and nerd in the complete opposite manner to myself and most people I know in New Zealand. I've always associated with being geek, and that meaning someone who's into a bit of gaming, a bit of tech stuff (in this case macs and graphic design toys), likes fringe pop culture stuff and old cartoons and comics, but is still able to mix it up socially and has a life. Now it seems that these people are called nerds in the US, and geeks are those people who have pocket calculators, acne and pee themselves when a girl accidentally touches their arm in passing.
What the hell! This seems instinctively wrong. Surely nerds should be, well, nerdier than geeks. The name nerd even sounds helplessly dorky whereas geek has a sort of cheeky but fun thing going on. I'm here to tell you, Americans, that much like your pronunciation of aluminium, you're doing it wrong, and I expect you to get your act together now that you have a president who knows where Europe is on a world map.
While you're at it you can get on the metric system too.
