“You understand why ‘42′ and ‘AYBABTU’ are funny, and still laugh at both.”
I laughed. Also:
“You consider ‘Geek’ a complement. [sic]”
You Might be a Geek If…
Posted by John on May 15th, 2007 at 12:33 pm · 3 Comments
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Mind on Fire is devoted to religion and skepticism, with frequent detours into science fiction, feminism, and other (mostly geeky) pet topics. It aims to be respectfully iconoclastic and thoroughly sacrilicious.
John Remy: [editor and permablogger] is an atheist-Quaker and secular humanist, cultural Shinto-Buddhist-Christian, and former Mormon; a religious studies graduate student, pseudo-journalist, and aspiring science fiction author. He started Mind on Fire in 2001 and is amazed to see that its engine is still good, even after all the miles on it.
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1 Miko // May 15, 2007 at 9:05 pm
So, I had custody of a ballot-election-counting-computerized device for a fortnight. (Someone in the bureaucracy has a poor sense of judgement.) And those seals, they started looking mighty tempting…
Incidentally, while using it today (and setting it up), I helped someone else set theirs up, causing them to ask if I knew something about computers. I affirmed that yes, I use them all the time. To which she replied, “well, I use computers all the time, too, but…” and trailed of. Which made me really want to say, “You meant ‘use’ like you ‘use’ a toothbrush. I meant ‘use’ like people ‘use’ drugs…” Instead, I just looked at her blankly.
In short, check. And check.
2 John // May 16, 2007 at 2:51 am
This may be a bit further than I would ever take it, but it sure beats the traditional first dance.
3 SunflowerP // May 16, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Which made me really want to say, “You meant ‘use’ like you ‘use’ a toothbrush. I meant ‘use’ like people ‘use’ drugs…”
I’ll have to remember that one, Miko. So true!
I’m not techie enough to fit a lot of the list that’s the subject of this entry, but I’m geek enough to be tickled by it. F’ex, I don’t have even a small box of spare cables, but several of my intimates do, and I understand perfectly well why they refuse to part with them. Never know when some essential component might be lacking one!
That reminded me that, somewhere, I do have a power cord that doesn’t go with anything, which I went to considerable trouble to scrounge up so as to ensure that the local CitadelNet* node could remain in operation. In the end, it was never used, but naturally I hung on to it!
Sunflower
*Like FidoNet, only less well-known (further explanation would require longwinded detail about how things worked in the days of dialup; I figure most folks will either already know, or won’t be interested).
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