Here's a set of slides from Philip S Tellis, whoever that may be, about "Being a Geek" and how great it is. Essentially a set of propaganda slides. He starts with a couple of -- what he calls -- myths:
- An obsession with books, studies, gadgets?
- Wearing thick glasses?
- Having no [social] life?
- Speaking in large incomprehensible terms and not caring about sport?
- Geeks like to study
- Not all geeks wear glasses. Some use lenses.
- Geeks have great social lives, and very large social networks
- Geeks are active in sport like UT, Warcraft and Everquest
Another interesting thing is on slide eleven "So What about Linux and FOSS?" Now FOSS, if I'm not mistaken, stands for Free and Open Source Software. So this basically translates to "So What about Ancient Operating Systems and Fundamentalism and Extremism?" According to the slide "Geeks love FOSS". This moves geeks up high on my list of enemies.
1 comments:
Let me start this comment off by expressing my opinion that you sir, are an idiot.
The definition of "sport" by my own research is "a Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors." So Unreal Tournament, WoW, and Everquest fit under that category. What do YOU consider a sport? Football? Basketball? Notice the other listings, MIND SPORTS and MOTOR SPORTS, stupid. They're not just physical. Also, not all geeks wear glasses, or even contact lenses. I consider MYSELF a geek, and I have 20/20 vision. Half the athletes I know wear contacts or glasses. I never study, and I'm still a geek. And I think my friends and I covered the "no social life" part too. I have a wonderful girlfriend, and heck, the fact that I have lots of great friends means that I HAVE a social life. Having a social life isn't just going out every night to get wasted at some nightclub, stupid.
So this post is utterly, and completely BIASED. Maybe you got your opinion of geeks watching Beauty and the Geek or something on MTV? I spit on you.
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