OT: Geeks and ninjahood?

[Drew Van Zandt]

A bit off-topic, but you guys are the only group I can easily collect
anecdotal evidence from on this, and google search failed to satisfy
my curiousity...

Note that I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek when I refer to it as
"ninjahood", but has anyone else noticed a high correlation between
engineers/programmers and ninjahood?  80% of the students at the dojo
I go to are engineers or programmers, and about half the
engineer-types I mention aikido around say something like "Hmmm I'm
interested in that, where do you go to learn that?"  (Woburn Aikikai)
... And while non-geeks I talk to usually ask "What's aikido, some
sort of martial art?" the geeks tend to know what it is and maybe even
some of the differences between it and the other martial arts.

--DTVZ