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Got the T-Shirt, now the Business Card
By Nick Hodge | April 10, 2007
First, the email:
Second the T-shirt:
Lastly, the business card:
Now I feel at home!
Topics: geek, microsoft, professionalgeek, technology, thegeekstories | 15 Comments »







April 10th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
w00t!!!
April 10th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
but we stuffed up
we needed to get progeek@microsoft.com as your email
April 10th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
... and my feeds and personal URL.
Small steps, and I've gotta leave something for version 2.0 of my cards!
April 10th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
But will the tax office believe you when you write off all your 'essential' geek toys?
April 10th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
They have before, and they will again dude!
April 10th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
[...] Read his post in all it’s glory “Got the T-Shirt, now the Business Card“ [...]
April 11th, 2007 at 7:46 am
cool outfit !
April 13th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
and your mum is a professional geek mum?????
and yes the outfit is cool
April 13th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Mum == geek?
This is a nature vs. nuture question. Scientists say its 80% nurture and 20% nature.
Geekiness is definitely from both sides of my family tree. Book smarts from my mum's side and street smarts from my dad's...
... and yes, you do pass your geek genes on to the next generation...
April 17th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Success!
But remember: life is simpler when you plough round the stumps
April 17th, 2007 at 10:18 am
If you were an Ausralian farmer, you would know that a stick a gelignite + tree stump == woodchips
June 1st, 2007 at 11:44 am
[...] resident "Professional Geek"; Nick Hodge recently purchased his very own Lego Mindstorms NXT Robot which is designed to be [...]
July 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
[...] myself as a geek with the title Professional Geek still gets sideways glances - even at Microsoft - which has spent the last many years successfully [...]
August 27th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
[...] post has the evidence. A proud moment when the cards arrived, and my former boss Frank Arrigo changing the HR [...]
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
terrific! I love it.. definitely I shall look for my own title too