It’s not every day you get mentioned in an article in The Oklahoman.  It’s even more rare to be called a “geek” in front of hundreds of thousands of readers, as I was in this weekend’s paper.

So I like technology.  I enjoy a well-designed, useful gadget.  I like being on the bleeding edge of what’s new.  There’s a term for guys like me, and strangely it has become a badge of honor, despite being the derogatory term it used to be.  No longer is it a label reserved just for those who wear thick-rimmed glasses and pocket protectors.  That’s why I can forgive Richard Mize, aside from the fact that I like the guy, for calling me a geek this weekend in his article entitled, ”Developer, builders share their thoughts of biblical proportions”.

For the article, I was asked what special technologies we use here at Jeff Click Homes.  While the answer can change from one week to the next, we do rely heavily on several particular technologies.  Our computer company of choice is Apple.  Walk into our furnished model and you’ll find that to be no secret.  We use an iMac in the showroom to organize all our media, from music that’s played in the model, to the tens of thousands of photos of nearly every house we’ve built to date.  Want to see all the different varieties of styles we can implement into The Psalm?  Watch the presentation in the showroom, or make your way to a comfy couch in the living room, where a 42” LG Plasma TV awaits you with an HD slideshow via Apple TV. 

We rely on several other Macs, both desktop and portable, to run our office, produce print literature, advertisements, web site design, and lots more, all of which we do in-house, thanks to how well Apple integrates both media production and organization into their systems.  They also play nicely with all of our other geek tools, from digital cameras, to video production equipment.  It may be geeky, but it’s cool at the same time.

If there’s anything that makes it a bit more palatable to be called a geek in front of the entire metro area, it’s the context in which Mize labeled me…

“And he is a geek, a tag he’s proud of. He reminds me of a bumper sticker I’ve seen. It reads: “Be nice to geeks. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”

Sorry, Richard.  We don’t have any openings at this time.