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I pulled up to an acquaintance’s house the other day to pick up something he’d been holding for me. I was amused by the collection of geek stickers on the back of his car: “NYC Wireless”, “Coding is not a crime!”, and “Linuxgruven”. “What a nerd!” I thought, reflecting that I had no such stickers on the back of my car.

And then I considered why I was visiting — to pick up a piece of a 24dBi parabolic grid (a wireless-networking antenna). And I considered that my trunk contained all the parts necessary to assemble a 600 MHz Mini-ITX server: case, fanless mainboard with CPU, low-profile DIMM, micro-size CD-ROM, IDE drive, cables, etc. I’m a nerd, too; I just don’t advertise it. In fact, I hide it. Maybe someday I’ll work up the courage to announce my nerd-dom to the world — to come out of the [network] closet.