{"id":4279,"date":"2004-09-14T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2004-09-14T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T17:01:23","slug":"geek_misconcept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4279","title":{"rendered":"Geek Misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kasia writes about something that annoyed me a bit.  She points to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.completeevil.com\/geek.html\">A Girl&#8217;s Guide to Geek Guys<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cs.wheatonma.edu\/pathways\/humor\/GuideToGeekGirls.html\">The Guy&#8217;s Guide to Geek Girls, V2.0<\/a>&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unix-girl.com\/blog\/archives\/001571.html\">comments on some of the points they make<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s clear some things up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The Star Trek thing.<\/p>\n<p>Star Trek is not a geek thing. Not all geeks like Star Trek, heck, most geeks I know never watch it. Would you people stop equating geeks with Star Trek freaks? Who the hell is Ivanova? The first guy to buy me a Star Trek mousepad as a cute gift would wear it as a collar in about fifteen seconds or less.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Branded tshirts.<\/p>\n<p>So people think geeks wear tshirts with brand names because they&#8217;re proudly displaying their loyalty? That&#8217;s cute and funny at the same time. T-shirts at conferences are free, t-shirts at conferences come emblazoned with logos and brand-names, ergo, geeks often wear tshirts with brand names because they&#8217;re free. Unlike the rest of you gap-labled yuppies, we don&#8217;t pay to advertise corporations.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you count my <a href=\"http:\/\/fsf.org\/\">Free Software Foundation<\/a> tshirt, I paid for that, but that was really more of a donation than a purchase. Sort of like the emacs manual, yah, i&#8217;ll ever read that!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Geeks can fix things.<\/p>\n<p>Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha &#8212; that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say on the issue.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unix-girl.com\/blog\/\">kasia in a nutshell<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In general, I&#8217;ve always thought of myself as more on the geek side.  But reading through the guide to geek guys it seems I was wrong.  I&#8217;m barely geeky at all!  Even though in humor, I just found that these were just so wrong and cliched that they weren&#8217;t even that funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasia writes about something that bugged me a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,121,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-stuff","category-general","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}