elfs | What is "geeky"?

Anyone who reads XKCD will recognize this moment in their lives. I have this sensation all the time. The other day I was deep into a conversation with some people over the difference between needs, feelings, and emotions and I had exactly the sentiment XKCD expressed. So here it is.

There's an emotion in the LJ palette, geeky.". I've been trying to figure out what this means, "geeky," even though I've used it myself from time to time. And I've come to the conclusion that geeky is a feeling all its own.

Geeky is a sense of focus and a sense of anticipation. It has a unique charactersitic, the sensation that one has grasped a live wire of insight and by following that wire to its one one will find generators of knowledge. It is awareness of a reward that potentially has no real world application and yet a reward that we willingly seek for its own sake. Geeky is an emotion that compels us to action, that meets a need for discovery.