I hardly think Steve Gibson is a freak.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gibson_%28computer_progra...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gibson_%28computer_progra...
Not to mention that the whole entry screams "freak" in lots of places. I mean, how is this at all typical of the average programmer:
"Gibson is an advocate of assembly language programming, and prides himself on writing smaller applications mostly in Intel x86 assembly language"