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The geek-off is complete. For Thursday's matchup, we went back to first principles and brought out the hardware. I offered as evidence that everyone knows that Apple is inherently more geeky than any Windows-based system (although I conceded that if he could pull out a Linux box it would trump my effort), and that not only have I been an exclusive Mac-user for the last decade, and have supplemented the computers with all major iPod variants, Apple wireless stations, and the still-shiny iPhone, but that I have gone so far as to burn a vacation day every year for the past five years to attend the Macworld Expo. In return, he rattled off an assortment of garage-filling but pedestrian hardware and finished the offering with a list of game systems. I maintained that an excess of game systems demonstrated not geekiness but arrested adolescence. We couldn't get a judgement from the spectators yesterday, but today the consensus was for me.

Today, alas, I took the match by default. My prepared spiel covering language-invention was met by a helpless shrug and a confession that he hadn't been able to think of anything new. So with the individual matches at four to one, I think the operative word is "PWNED!" Of course, if he hadn't been the one who invented the challenge in the first place, it would have been a bit embarrassing. Yes, yes, I confess that I'm incurably competitive. Every once in a while -- under sanctioned conditions -- the ravening beast shows forth.
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