"At client meetings, we all unzip our geek packs, pull out our Powerbooks and flip them open at the same time," he said.
Late last month hundreds of software developers and geeks packed into an East London venue to look for jobs with tech startups.
It is a love letter to geek culture, packed full of Gaiman's musings and reflections on his time creating in the field, as well as insights into some of its greatest figures – Terry Pratchett, Diana Wynne Jones, Douglas Adams.
Her list of books is eclectic: Dickens, Austen, a few popular science geology books recommended to her by a "geeked out" pack of geoscientists on her last sub-Antarctic voyage, the memoirs of Philip Law, who directed the Australian Antarctic Division in the 1950s, and a "standard range of fiction".
Last year, I built a mobile audio lab so I could do audio testing, recording, and writing on the go, but it quickly evolved into the geek's ultimate travel pack.
(Flaunting his credentials as a music geek, Mr. Bush pointed out a bus shelf packed full of books from the "33 1/3" series, in which writers tell the story of one classic album per volume).
Even by the impressive standards of comic book stores, the staff of Silver Age, custodians of a collection of more than 200,000 magazines, are a rude bunch of geeks, resembling nothing so much as a pack of superannuated teenage dogs.
But the fact remains that any activity is usually a good thing and, as geeks, we don't want run with the pack if we can help it.
Ms. Meeker's PowerPoint presentations pack a powerful numerical punch — which appeals to everyone's inner geek and confers a potent aura of legitimacy in this age of the supremacy of data.
I may look like a geek running through the canyon with an antenna sticking up (and a fanny pack around my waist), but these are things I just don't care about any more.
