I am a geek. I'm not an uberGeek by any stretch of the imagination. I don't know everything. But, I love learning new stuff and playing around with technology. Also, I found myself writing some really geeky stuff on my main blog and decided that I had enough tutorials, tips and stupid geek ranting on the main site to warrant creating an easier way to gather and publish them.

Why the name Geekout!? Because that's what I do. I go geek crazy over stuff. Right now, I'm geeking out over Java, JSP Tags, Movable Type, and the idea of community on the web. I still geek out over the stuff I do at work: search. I think I will always be a search geek. I will probably always be an AOLserver and Tcl geek. I am most definitely an HTML and CSS geek. I was a Linux geek, but I geek out over OS X more than Linux now. As you can see, I have a lot of fodder for geek ramblings and hopefully, helpful tutorials.

A lot of laypeople have no idea what it means to be a geek. We get lumped in with the nerds and dorks a lot. It's true, a lot of geeks are nerds, dorks or worse, like a square is also a rectangle. But, you can be a geek without being a nerd or dork. It's true, I swear. To me, a geek is someone who's passionate about something, almost to a fault. You could be a gardening geek, a music geek (I'm one), a train geek, etc. Getting totally immersed in a topic makes you happier than you ever thought possible. You dig the nuances and crazy niches of a subject. You get lost in the details and come up for air, and wonder where everyone went because it's three in the morning and you've been geeking out for eight hours straight. You will tinker until you get it just so. Being a geek is a good thing. Being a nerd sucks.