I like geekery when it's real love of the subject matter. Usually, I can tell, because the person's cheerfully informative, and willing to go off to another topic if I'm not as interested, and there's no one-upmanship in the conversation. "You/i> don't even know the differences between a Wisconsin and a New York cheddar? Barbarian!"

I'd like to be just geeky enough to appreciate the real food geeks around me more.