A bunch of nerds

I had this discussion with one of my friends recently and came to the conclusion that a geek is one who is extremely interested in something, but a nerd is someone who is extremely interested in something to the exclusion of other things and fields.

I got this email about a piece of code which had won the international obfuscation competition. What the heck is this - all through school and grad school - this has been dinned into me - 'Write clear, easily understandable and well flowing code" And now I hear about some chumps awarding prizes for codes which are most obfuscated. I checked out the website of the IOCC which is an organization for people who do this. In fact I saw prizes for things like "Most Sonorous Code" - what is this?

I accept that I may be biased because I don't write code very well but are these guys prime candidates for the rulers of the nerd land or what?