Sharyl joyously insults me without knowing it: Brad should be happy to hear that I am a stats/ computer queen!!!

Brad replies with earnest (not the goes-to-camp kind): I think your misconception of me a some sort of computer nerd who glories in the triumph of mathmatica, is slightly distorted. You need to understand that there is a subtle difference between a geek and an nerd. It is like the difference between an artist and a painter. Like a nerd, a painter may find wonder in the tools of his trade for the sheer joy that they exist and he owns them, revelling in the pixel count of his paintbrush or marvelling at how ergonomic his ladder harness might be. They do valuable jobs, nerds repairing hard disk drives and writing software to compute pi to eight billion digits, painters colorizing our walls and ceilings. But they differ fundamentally from geeks and (subsequently) artists. Geeks and artists marvel in their tools but only to the point that a better brush or a quicker processor can allow them to more acurately portray the sallow grimace of a stooping old man on his porch swing or to increase the level of realism in a digitally rendered army of ants crawling along a virtual tree trunk. All geeks must at one point have been nerds to understand this transition and the fundamental basics of their tools, just as all artists must spend years studying paint dynamics and color pallates. But there is a very important difference.

Examples: Nerds vs Geeks