Befriend A Geek
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Are you lonely, Dave? :y114:
I just had to post this when I saw it :y114:
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Gary
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My son got married on December 20, 2008 and his best man was a friend from Boston. My son grew up a computer whiz and was hacking interactive games when in grade school. After he got his degree in Media & Communications he took a Webmaster's job with an Internet Start Up in Boston in the mid-90's and at one time was apparently doing well with lots of stock options. Anyway in Boston, where the cost of living is sky high, he fell into a small group of intense, internet nerds (read Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" for examples). Later when the whole internet thing collasped and 90% of the internet businesses went bust, he moved back to my house and then took a job repairing PCs at some overnight service in Memphis (FedEx's main hub where all laptops go for repair) until he decided to follow my advice and get a PhD.
Anyway, I had some contact with some of his friends through blog visits; I just didn't have the technical knowledge to keep up with the lingo and depth of their near daily novel length blogs, but I learned these were world-class techno-Geeks. So I kind of knew what to expect.
Anyway, I meet his best man at the wedding rehersal and he is the classic geek. About 6' tall and 300 lbs, wearing a suit that might have fit at 250 lbs and the shirt is unironed and the tie is a clip on that doesn't match anything; he's wearing some sort of tan hush puppy clog shoes with a navy blue striped suit. His hair is about 12" long and naturally frizzy and so is his beard. He looks like a mountain man ... except ... he takes small steps, is a little knock kneed (kind of holds himself like he needs to go very soon), and mostly looks down, instead of holding his head up and looking you in the eye, and then he speaks - kind of a cross between Tiny Tim, and Michael Jackson. But he also has that unmistakable aloofness that comes when someone truly doesn't
care at all about what anyone else thinks. The most surprising part of this man was that it seems every single woman at the wedding reception was chasing this guy.
I guess the moral is that maybe the more geeky you are, the better it gets.
Anyway, I had some contact with some of his friends through blog visits; I just didn't have the technical knowledge to keep up with the lingo and depth of their near daily novel length blogs, but I learned these were world-class techno-Geeks. So I kind of knew what to expect.
Anyway, I meet his best man at the wedding rehersal and he is the classic geek. About 6' tall and 300 lbs, wearing a suit that might have fit at 250 lbs and the shirt is unironed and the tie is a clip on that doesn't match anything; he's wearing some sort of tan hush puppy clog shoes with a navy blue striped suit. His hair is about 12" long and naturally frizzy and so is his beard. He looks like a mountain man ... except ... he takes small steps, is a little knock kneed (kind of holds himself like he needs to go very soon), and mostly looks down, instead of holding his head up and looking you in the eye, and then he speaks - kind of a cross between Tiny Tim, and Michael Jackson. But he also has that unmistakable aloofness that comes when someone truly doesn't
care at all about what anyone else thinks. The most surprising part of this man was that it seems every single woman at the wedding reception was chasing this guy.
I guess the moral is that maybe the more geeky you are, the better it gets.
That kinda guy makes me shudder almost as much as blokes who bat for the other side. brrrrrrrrrr :y110:
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The coding support site for this forum software I belong to is quite something. There is this one support members who give in depth and complicated coding support to others. His general post are amazing as well. Turns out he is 12 years old :tongue:. When I found this out I was shocked and could not believe it so I started doing a bit of digging. Most of the support staff vary from around 11 to 32 years old 
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The coding support site for this forum software I belong to is quite something. There is this one support members who give in depth and complicated coding support to others. His general post are amazing as well. Turns out he is 12 years old :tongue:. When I found this out I was shocked and could not believe it so I started doing a bit of digging. Most of the support staff vary from around 11 to 32 years old
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Well then, there you go Dave,
You cant be a geek.....you're too bluddy old.
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The coding support site for this forum software I belong to is quite something. There is this one support members who give in depth and complicated coding support to others. His general post are amazing as well. Turns out he is 12 years old :tongue:. When I found this out I was shocked and could not believe it so I started doing a bit of digging. Most of the support staff vary from around 11 to 32 years old
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Well then, there you go Dave,
You cant be a geek.....you're too bluddy old.
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:y114: Thank goodness for that. Now just imagine where the 12 year old will be in coding when he is ready to enter the work place :y115:
He could probably go to work for the NSA or CIA as a hacker!
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