geek•su•al [ geek-shoo-uhl ] – adjective

1. pertaining to, inclined to, or preoccupied with the gratification of geekish sensibilities.

Usage:
Opening a box with some electronic device inside is a geeksual experience that should be done slowly and deliberately to let the anticipation build until the ultimate moment that you hold your new toy in your hands.

I’ll never forget the experience of seeing a movie trailer back in 2008. With nothing but a black screen and a single, constant, musical tone I knew instantly it was a preview to the next Star Trek movie. It was one of the most geeksual moments I’ve ever had.

Origin:
Coined by polyGeek on August 09, 2010 in a conversation with @proudgamer. In reference to receiving a new HP multi-touch monitor.

Please share your most geeksual experiences in the comments.

Personal note: I’m moving back to Seattle in a few weeks – I lived there between 2006-08 while working at XBox. I should arrive on July 5th. I have a studio apartment picked out on Mid-Beacon Hill that is walking distance to All City Coffee where I plan on spending a few afternoons a week hanging out and working on a screenplay with my sister. ( It’s a zombie story. ) If you live in the area and ever want to talk about any personal projects just to bounce ideas around then look me up.

I’m really looking forward to getting back into the User Group swing. Where I am now is too far to consistently travel for a UG meeting. There in Seattle I’ll be a short drive away. Plus I’d like to make it down to Portland for a few meetings every now and then.

I’ll be in Seattle until the NFL Superbowl. After that I’ll move back down to Arizona. While I’m in Seattle I’ll be working on a bevy of personal projects. The first one is a word game that should be in beta in a few weeks. The other is a mobile game that I hope to have ready for MAX. The income from RunPee.com is enough to support me so I don’t plan on doing any client work besides maintenance on past projects.

Can’t wait to get up there and hang out with my Flash/Flex peeps. So you all soon.

Seems like most devs that I meet at conferences didn’t start off as developers or even go to college to get a CS degree. And many didn’t even go to college. So I’m wondering, what do you think you’d be doing if you hadn’t become a developer?

Here’s my story. I’d love to read yours in the comments, or better yet write your story on your blog and link to it from here.

A long winding road
I went to college – majoring in Math/Physics – at the U of Az. Then dropped out to teach at Space Academy in Huntsville, AL. Then back to college but dropped out again to get a degree in massage therapy from the Desert Institute of the Healing Arts. Then back to college at NAU – Northern Az – still trying to get a degree in Math and working part time as a nude model for the art department. Then I switched my major to History and finally Philosophy. I spent my last year of college studying abroad in Swansea, Wales.

Not a dime to my name
Picture this, I’m on my way back to the US after going to school in Wales. I’m at Hethrow airport and buy a value meal at Burger King. I didn’t have enough money left over to get it super-sized. In fact I had only 7-cents left in my pocket when I landed in DC. Fortunately I had good friends who gave me a place to stay.

I was supposed to go back to NAU to present my work from Swansea and receive my degree. But without enough money to get back to NAU I picked up a job doing HTML for a small design shop in Greensboro, NC. A six-month contract job turned into a career. After that I had enough money to go back to school and start my doctorate in Philosophy but a friend in Manhattan talked me into coming up there and working with him. From there it was HTML and Javascript and eventually working at XBox doing Flash, then freelancing with Flex and AIR and then success with RunPee.com and living in an RV, sitting on my ass and blogging too much.

If I’d had enough money to get back to school I would have ended up a professor of Philosophy.

What polyGeeks do when they’re bored and don’t feel like writing code anymore:

I wanted to do Superman and Spiderman but I just don’t have the design chops for those.

So, what’s your favorite? Mine is probably the first one: Wolverine.