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Do you consider yourself to be a Geek?
I'm l33t 39%  39%  [ 12 ]
Yes 45%  45%  [ 14 ]
No 16%  16%  [ 5 ]
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11 Apr 2008, 7:08 pm

It was our 50th Virtual World show on Radio NZ this week so Chelfyn and I did a special on Geek 2.0 to kick off a bit of Geek Pride. There's show notes and a podcast here: http://mohawkmedia.co.nz/geek


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11 Apr 2008, 8:39 pm

What's a "interwebs"?


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12 Apr 2008, 1:02 am

what a geek calls the internet. we also program on confusers. :wink:


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12 Apr 2008, 1:33 am

lau wrote:
What's a "interwebs"?

I think its a series of tubes



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12 Apr 2008, 1:37 am

spudnik wrote:
lau wrote:
What's a "interwebs"?

I think its a series of tubes


but not a flat bed truck...


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14 Apr 2008, 7:20 pm

lau wrote:
What's a "interwebs"?

SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Or, what a geek calls the internet.


I think i'm a geek, but i'm not leet at all.



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14 Apr 2008, 8:10 pm

* pulls out a book he remembers from his youth, and thumbs through to the appropriate chapter*

The Hacker Jargon Lexicon: Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker.

(See also Chapter 9. Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers)


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14 Apr 2008, 9:06 pm

polarity wrote:
* pulls out a book he remembers from his youth, and thumbs through to the appropriate chapter*

The Hacker Jargon Lexicon: Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker.

(See also Chapter 9. Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers)


Yarrrrr. That be right me heartie. Pirates FTW!


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15 Apr 2008, 6:49 am

Indubitably.


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15 Apr 2008, 10:10 am

I have a box.


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15 Apr 2008, 11:14 am

Geek 1.0: Program and build all the systems.
Geek 2.0: Use all the systems and pretend by being able to use them all that it makes you "savvy."

Or am I missing something?



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15 Apr 2008, 12:48 pm

Geek 2.0: Lost the Geek 1.0 manual, so rewrote it using hints off the side of a cornflakes box.


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16 Apr 2008, 1:25 pm

No.



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16 Apr 2008, 1:25 pm

No.



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16 Apr 2008, 1:29 pm

I have the cred to be l33t but I hate the word geek. Those of us old enough to remember being called that and then chased home from school probably won't adjust to the way society has turned it into a "positive". I still find it offensive and probably always will. I don't hear it as a term of respect - I still hear it as "shut up you f*****g geek".



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16 Apr 2008, 2:49 pm

Im a geek and proud of it! Who needs tech support! I built a broken ME & 98 machine into a giant DOS machine that has a 350mhz processor and 192 mb of ram, also 18gb storage!! !! !!


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