We call these people eccentric.

We call our oldies eccentric.

It's this thin geeky line that keeps it going.

We were freaks

This machine is really strange, and one of the consequences is that people are weird.

I figured he was either really on to something, or he was one of these academic nutcases.

But what we need is not just a few oddballs like me thinking about this.

I was trying to think of the right model to describe this form of random acts of kindness by geeky strangers.

I don't want to give you the idea that these are some out of work scientists or just a bunch of nerds that are really into this.

On the other hand, two people are more likely to be influential than one person as they are less likely to be seen as strange or eccentric.

The choir people in my high school were pretty geeky, and there was no way I was going to have anything to do with those people.

Aside from the congested traffic, lack of parking space and throngs of hundred people milling about everywhere going nowhere, it is also the day where weirdo's have their field trips. Oh yes it's true, they engage you in a conversation even if you pointedly ignore them, she explains.

We were freaks lobster claw boys and bearded ladies, oddities juggling depression and loneliness, playing solitaire, spin the bottle, trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal, but at night, while the others slept, we kept walking the tightrope.