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DORK:
1. a whale penis
2. an individual who is keenly interested in and good at mathematics, science, and technology, and applies mathematical and scientific principles to everyday occurrences, while at the same time being loveable and very personable, often having many friends due to wittiness, often loves video games. Not to be confused with nerd or geek or dweeb.
1. The blue whale's dork is the world's largest sexual organ.
2. Dork: Wow, that light bulb that's flickering in a seemingly random fashion is actually occurring as such due to a capacitance built up on one side of the tungsten filament until it discharges sending electrical flow through the tungsten, causing photonic emission through heated excitation, which then dissipates as you get farther from the light bulb according to inverse square law.
Girlfriend who is also a dork: You're right, you dork. Shut up and kiss me. You're so cute

I came out of the dork closet about 5 years ago. I remember the exact moment. I was interviewing and hiring web developers for a consulting firm based on the quality of their portfolios. Honestly, I had no clue what I was doing, but I would throw out words like HTML, Javascript, ASP, GIF, and Notepad as though they were common enough, but in most instances my context was more in the ballpark of a random madlib.

One day however, I was glancing at some HTML code and I froze in my cubicle chair. I actually understood what I was looking at! The tags, nested tags, and general architecture made sense to me. Granted, I didn't understand the complexities of each tag, but I got the gist of it all. I marched over to Borders, bought the HTML Bible 2 and started cobbling together web pages.

My inner dork was unleashed.

Today my path on the road to DORK continues. Granted, I'm no black-belt dork. Perhaps an aqua-belt. Teal maybe? Peuce? No matter the color, I know that I at least own a belt. Evidence might include tidbits like the the existence of this very blog, I like to shell around UNIX just to say I did, I enjoyed writing a tutorial on how to compress digital photos with MS Paint, and my devotion to Mozilla.

Yesterday, I was reading the blog of a Dork Titan who recently posted a witty, yet compelling call to action on the necessity of data backup. Since I'd actually been mulling over the need to expand my PC storage capability in recent months I decided I needed to be a doer, rather than just a reader. (For any closet dorks out there, note that becoming a doer is the first step out of the closet. Embrace your inner dork, and come joing the movement...)

I stopped by Microcenter on the way home and picked up a 200 GB internal disk drive for $99 as well as an external case for $30. Granted, I could have just installed the internal drive at no extra charge, or bought a simple external case for $10. Not today. Today my friends, I decided to go the "pimp my ride" route and "pimp my drive". Feast your eyes on my CI320U2 XGear-II external enclosure for a 3.5" hard drive. Oh yeah. My hot-swappin', heat dissapating, USB 2.0, 7,200 RPM red-lining storage device has got mad MB storin' skillz yo!

I was so dorked out, I had to set up my camera on a tripod to get just the right picture for this entry.

I got dork cred. Do you?