a) engaging in activities that display techiepassion (techie being all things technological, real or fictional)
b) demonstrating true techie prowess
a) " My son and I are going to the Wonders Of Space night at the science museum; I better get my geek on"
b) "My girlfriend had her geek on all day: she fixed the timer in my tivo, and then she soldered the lose connections on my sound card and repartitioned the hard drives without a hitch"
1. The business community and economic activity that emerges around geek culture; the production and consumption of nerdy goods and services, such as comic cons and other pop culture conventions.
2. The geekonomy can also refer to products (Star Wars punk rock albums), art (comic book artists), crafts, etc. with a geek interest.
First notably used by journalist Dyer Oxley on episode 40 of the NW NERD Podcast.
"Wow. I opened a booth at Emerald City Comic Con and did more business with my artwork than I do all year!"
"That's the geekonomy for ya."
"The Hoot Hoots released a Star Wars tribute album!"
"That's gonna be a big seller in the geekonomy."
"Bremerton is starting a comicon."
"Yeah, they're trying to get in on that geekonomy."
The transformation from a dude to a geek is called getting geekonised. The ultimate product is a Geek-on a organism that belongs to the Geek-dom. Geekonisation happpens mostly due to pressure from the guards of the Geek-dom a.k.a teachers. Once inside the Geek-dom there is no way out. Geekonisation is not reversible......