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Hanging with Tweak Freaks  - or

Technical Term Elucidated

category: people

I first saw this term as a word of the day from techtarget.com.

Once I read the definition and mused for a while, I realized that I spend a lot of time with tweak freaks.

I have a friend who has, at last count, 17 computers in his four-bedroom house. He built most of these himself. He has a few different networks, some of which connect multiple computers in one room and others connect computers in different rooms. None of these computers relate directly to what he does for a living. He simply likes them. He likes shopping online for parts and tweaking to make sure each work station is perfectly suited for some task.

Today's tweak freaks are probably the progeny of people who used to love to tinker with chemistry sets.

She said on 03.03.05 @ 02:58 PM CST