Diary of an up and coming sociopath

I had a moment at work the other day worth of a Coupland book. During a meeting, it emerged that someone we were going to deal with was called “Bruce Campbell.” As an unashamed geek, I found this amusing and smirked at the idea of sitting down to a meeting with Ash from Evil Dead. Unfortunately, not everyone was as well-versed as me, and the ensuing discussion as to what was funny involved me trying to explain Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead to people who simply didn’t remotely have the correct reference for it. It eventually reached some kind of conclusion when I started explaining that Sam Raimi also directed Spider-Man at which point the slightly glazed over looks disappeared at the mention of a familiar movie.

Imagine not knowing who Bruce Campbell is. Worse, imagine not even caring that you don’t know. Is that really a life worth living?

As Josh observes, moments like that are what seperate the geeks from the nerds.