Hard Graft

I’m a Geek. Apparently according to one knowledgeable sage at University Geek is chic! I’d dare not reveal what Nerd meant but that is for another story.

So, imagine my delight when you find that a podcast that you follow not only has an active side-project involving the wife of one of the hosts but that it also covers a webcomic and a blog! This is what we in the service delivery industry call”added value”. I have no idea how I’ve become to be in the service delivery industry but there you go.

The webcomic however will take the central focus and it consists of simple bread & butter three panel funnies. The title is a helpful clue towards the content in the comic but it also features how what you and I would call “normal life” such as parenthood, relationships, etc intersect with the life of a Geek.

Observations are made from the perspective of the Geek and it gets you thinking, you may see what he says he is observing (for example a bald man driving a VW new Beetle) but you may see something equally Geekish (for example, I’m thinking why Jean Luc Picard would be driving a German car or a car period). But then, that is the whole point of the strip which is to get you thinking about Geekery and life as a whole from a new angle.

On this basis, I recommend that you explore the site, the blog, listen to the podcast and take in the entire experience. It is a very rewarding site overall of which the comic plays a small (but very important and admirable) part.