When I looked at a piece of jello and my first thought was, “mmm… underdamped oscillator…”
When I went trolling on Star Trek channels on mIRC just to say Star Trek sucked and Star Wars ruled.
I’ve known most of my life, but it hit me in the face recently. Moved into an apartment all by myself and realized that my telemarketing calls FAR outnumber my personal calls (5:1 maybe?).
Oh yeah, and I try to only speak in Simpsons quotes.
Colin
Until I met another geek
I thought I was a freak
Then my future seemed less bleak
Now I revel as a Geek.
Note: my studies have indentified a fundamental translation error in our Western literature.
Now the truth can be known: we ACTUALLY owe our Western heritage to ancient GEEKS, NOT Greeks!
The moment I knew I was a geek?
That would be the day watching a planetarium show reduced me to tears.
Blubbering tears.
I went to see Star Trek: First Contact with my then-boyfriend, some friends, and his mom, who is a Physical Chemist.
One of the previews was for an action/sci-fi movie called The Fifth Element. In the preview, they showed a lot of action scenes with Bruce Willis, who was (apparently) concerned about The Fifth Element.
I turned to my boyfriend’s mom and asked, “Why are they making a movie about boron?”
I am in awe of the uber-geeks in this thread. No, really. I think I first suspected when I discovered Heinlein at about 11 years old and read everything I could get my hands on, usually while walking to or from school. Or maybe it was when I created my own alphabet at 8. Or maybe…I’ve been a geek a long time. So long that I don’t even bother thinking of myself as one. I’m just the wonderful, unique, ball of interestingness that is me.
SNORT:::Beer out the nose:::
Damned, that’s bad. And I mean bad in a good way.
Slee
Jeez, every post I see in IMHO is making me think about geekdom. 
Ive always known im a geek. But perhaps the first time I really thought ‘gee, thats really geeky’ was probely the first time I said ‘LOL’ out loud instead of laughing, lol.
You think that’s bad? On my cell phone, wrong numbers outnumber personal calls.
Geek reference: Hey, nobody doesn’t like Molten Boron.
My moment came in 1982 or 1983 when I tried to bolster my Grade 7 popularity by showing off my LOGO programming skills. Even then, others had learned to recognize my geekiness and I was allowed to use the Apple //e with the big television monitor attached. Yes, it was the age of the Geek at that school…
When I could start communicating with modems over the phone
I’ve always been a geek, there have been way too many instances for me to recount. One sticks in my mind because it happened night before last.
My SO and I are sitting on the couch when the new Spidey trailer comes out. We both bemoan the fact that the Green Goblin was a pretty lame choice for villain and then spend the next 10-15 minutes debating the merits of various Spidey villains (his vote: Doctor Oc, my vote: Juggernaut or Sandman) with a few departures into the DC Universe.
I just laughed and said to my boyfriend, how many of your other girlfriends would have ever had this conversation with you?
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The first time I watched a porn movie with Mr. Honey. I insisted that we mute the sound and play a classical CD instead.
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The first time that I set my alarm clock for 3am so I could get up to watch the Leonid Meteor Shower.
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Hi Opal!
Jim and I were reading this thread, and I was teasing him about all the geek paraphanelia he has in his computer room - an R2D2 bank, a model C3PO, models of the Millenium Falcon, all Star Trek ships, two Darth Vader busts, a Bill the Cat and an Opus doll, a Catbert doll, etc, etc, and it occurred to me that I knew what all that stuff was and was able to name it. We’re so right for each other :D.
i always knew i was a geek at heart, but i never felt more proud to be a geek than the day i built my computer. I spent a month researching building tips and handpicking the choicest components. When everything finally came together and i booted up the first time i had to just sit back and smile. I’m typing this post on my dream machine … i love it. 
When I pre-purchased my LOTR:FOTR tickets online for opening night, showed up and ran into my entire (yes, entire - all 8 of us) high school tech crew. These were the people with whom I waited in line for tickets to see the re-released Star Wars movies and the prequel. For the prequel (totally blanking on the name, sorry), we waited in line from 6pm on for tickets to the midnight showing.
Oh, and when I started watching Jeopardy, yelling out answers and calling the contestants names for not getting blatantly obvious questions right.
Well…
I suppose my geek-epiphany came to me when I resigned myself as being the only kid in the neighbourhood who played Tradewars and Legend of the Red Dragon (good times those were…) into the night. Nobody in my class knew any games beyond the various incarnations of Mortal Kombat! I was exasperated! I was flabbergasted! Dear lord, have I been dumped into a horde of uncultured barbarians?
Although I’ve always been a geek, I had a recent epiphany:
I am on the math team at school (wait, it gets worse) and we go to a math team class instead of regular math. During a lull in the conversation I began reciting “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot from memory while my classmates alternately begged me to stop and poked fun at me. That’s right, I am the geekiest person on the math team.