Yes, you may also be a Geek Emeritus if you have done any ten of the following things:

• Carried a sliderule on your belt or in your shirt pocket on a daily basis.
• Be able to retrieve said sliderule in less than 60 seconds — right now!
• Derived Maxwell’s equations.
• Watched the original Star Trek on its first airing — and know where you were.
• Had a crush on Jeannie. (If you don’t know the meaning of this you are permanently disqualified!)
• Know who said “…billions and billions of stars.”
• Wrote a real computer program on punch cards — and dropped your card deck!
• Built a transistor from scratch.
• Participated in Towel Day.
• Remember what you were doing when John Kennedy was shot.
• Wire-wrapped circuit boards.
• Your first computer program ran on a machine made with vacuum tubes.
• Read the “Martian Chronicles.”
• Watched “The Princess Bride” with your kids — and enjoyed it more than they did.
• You knew you were a geek before it was cool.
• The number ”42″ gives you a peaceful feeling.

Do you qualify? Let me know.