Reversing polarity in your kitchen since the 21st century.
Perhaps the only characteristic common to absolutely every geek is an indignant denial that every geek shares anything in common with every other geek. There is no such thing, the idea goes, as a Typical Geek. Witnessing one of the many geek flame wars — Mac vs. Windows, Linux vs. Windows, vi vs. emacs, distro vs. distro — might just bear this out.
It’s safe to say, however, that there are particular movies that virtually every geek has seen, if not dissected minutely a la the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. It is also safe to say that every geek in existence has, at one point or another in his or her life, eaten food. Without getting too far into the existential “What Is A Geek?” questions, let us reflect on this seemingly strange paring.
The following contain some story and plot spoilers, so if you have somehow managed to not watch television or movies for the past 40 years, you might like to skip these pages.
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