Ok, so I read The essence of a Geek and I get it, but you folks need to understand the mind of a REAL geek.

When you have mastered a VERY difficult topic, and you KNOW the deal, I mean Capital "T"he Capital "D"eal, and you are the Master of the Universe you have chosen to play in, or hell, at least ONE of the Masters of that Universe, you have reached NerdVana.

Ok, so then when you find that Mom and Pop are getting into your space, when the Common Consciousness is impinging on YOUR snuggly-mind-space, then you get a little cranky and make it harder for folks to do just that.

One of the things I have learned from listening to ITConverstations.com is from Jonathan Schwartz of Sun, the posterchild of how to preside over a companies demise, (but that's ANOTHER rant) and you have to go UPMARKET away from the Common Consciousness.

If you are the MASTER of the Linux Desktop Universe, and people are getting into the Linux Desktop like the Republicans got into speed in the late 60's (and I AM a Republican, so that doesn't mean I can't use it as a JOKE, so get over it) then you need to GO UPMARKET, and find the most likely and tasty HARD THING to get into (like XEN virtualization, so go get your own) and stake your territory out, and get good at it in preparation for the MONEY PHASE.

I define the MONEY PHASE as the phase when the Common Man, or Lower Techie will pay BIG MONEY to learn how to inhabit the last part of the CURVE where it's cool and you can take advantage of that trend.

Jeesh, this is the LONGEST post I have ever put on this blog, (Thanks Sean for telling me I am a man of few words, I have used up WEEKS of them in this post alone) and I mean all of it.