Geeks are not really anti-social

Posted on June 11th, 2007 by eclair.
Categories: opinions.

Maybe selective is more like it.

If geeks are really anti-social, how could you explain Linux Users’ Groups, MUDs, programming language users’ groups, and so on? Isn’t that being social?

The stereotype that geeks are anti-social is bleh if you ask me, especially when you think about that. And geeks do go out drinking, dancing, enjoying themselves in concerts, among others. It’s probably not always the stereotypical way of enjoying the events but still, geeks do that too. And it’s not necessarily as frequent as stereotypical party animals but I do know geeks who would be considered the life of the parties they go to. :)

Ah, stereotypes.


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Beat the geeks ;)

Posted on June 7th, 2007 by eclair.
Categories: anecdotes.

It’s not about the TV show. It’s all about who’s geekier and who’s not quite as geeky. My co-worker and I were talking about it the other night. Why? Here’s the conversation that started it:

eclair: Glenn, there’s “Bambino!” on Crunchyroll! And here’s an RoR tutorial I could start with!
Glenn: Sounds great.
eclair: Now I wonder what I should do… *pause*
[eclair looks at the Rails tutorial and starts on it]
eclair: Hey, Glenn, look! Rails is cool. It did this… *points at the view created* *lightbulb moment* I just realized: between the show “Bambino!” and Rails, I chose Rails!
Glenn: Hahaha. Our hobby is working. :P And maybe our past time is research. Or coding. Hahahahaha!
eclair: Our current events would be releases of our favorite text editors, etc. etc.
*Glenn and eclair laugh*

And we actually do these things. Hahaha.

How about you? How geeky could you be?


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