22 traits that make you a geek

Are you the ultimate techie, a real geek in the true sense of the word and at the forefront of innovation and change? So much that was once considered the providence of the geek is now common place with the masses: Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 apps. Add to that smartphones, sites like Digg and Slashdot and on the enterprise front, even open source is going mainstream.

CIO.com, in honor of geeks everywhere, compiled a list of 22 defining traits that may or may not apply to you. Among these telling geek traits: you have a way higher salary than most people your age and spend your money on gadgets and tech toys; your wardrobe consists entirely of T-shirts with messages like "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" and "s/windows/linux/g";  you think that you are a character in User Friendly; you ask someone out on a date because you think you would interface well; your primary method of communicating with your significant other is through texting, IM, Facebook or Twitter even when you're in the same room; and you spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about your avatars and handles.

For more on geeks:
- check out this CIO.com article