 So it's a real honor to have Neil Ford over here. He has nothing to do with Ford Motors, I believe That's correct Lots to do with that works Neil is one of the most infinite influential person when it comes to You know programmers developers Doing a lot of interesting work on you know some of his books are really influential So it's been a real honor reading his books and having him over here in person this time. Thanks, Neil Can we get the slides flipped over, please? There we go All right. Good morning My name is Neil Ford and my keynote this morning is called when geek leaks Which is going to require some explanation, of course And I will start with defining the word geek and there are several definitions of geek out in the world One is a carnival former who does things like bites the the heads off of live chickens That is not the kind of geek. I'm talking about Another geek that you might think I'm talking about is a computer expert or enthusiast And I actually take offense by this definition which I got from Webster's that says considered offensive when but used by Outsiders, I don't think computer experts being called geek should be offensive to outsiders That's kind of offensive to me as a self-professed geek, but this is not the kind of geek. I'm talking about either This is the other definition that I have some complaints with a particularly Dislikable person proceed to be overly intellectual. I think that's also not a good definition of geek But I'm going to use this definition as a verb not generally. I don't like using nouns as verbs I don't like the word antiquing as a verb for example But I think this verb works really nicely to spend inordinate amount of time utterly immersed in an activity That seems not that interesting to your spouse and your family and all the other people you're around This is the kind of geek that I'm talking about and in fact the topic of my keynote this morning It's called when geek leaks what I'm talking about here is when some really serious devotion some really serious Geekery from one problem domain leaks all over another problem domain And creates really interesting synergies when that happens and what I'm going to do during this talk is give you a bunch of examples of Geek leaking from one domain to the other both in the technology world and some surprising Non-technological places where that happens and let me give you an example a real-world example of this The kind of thing that drives my wife crazy Let's say that you go to a McDonald's. There's one in the mall next door here