9.09.2009

g33k

Since I'm rather bored than inspired to write, I've decided to make a list of why my best friends and I are, in fact, Geeks (understanding that the term means more than just being passionate for computers)
First of all: We are a select group of human beings, an exclusive Group of unknown people...n/n, we are the kind of people that you see walking down the street, but you don't stare, look or even notice.
We do have a life, but when it comes to social networking...we suck, awkward is our second name...and we are proud about it!
Is not that we don't want to hang out with new people, it's just that our friendship means a lot, and we don't have to be hiding our dirty laundry from each other. We know we are different, and we've embraced it!

Another example is when some of my friends find a way to talk about math or any science, in a normal conversation. Whether are the odds for something to happen, or how to prove you wrong. They can help you with many computer issues, or create issues about computers.
We talk about everything. We give our thoughts about life and weir things that happen around us. We share knowledge of any kind, and find arguments amusing. Deceases, computers, software. We play old video games. We enjoy way too much of the jokes that appear in the IT Crowd or The Big Bang Theory. We know about Star Wars (ejemm guilty) and we can discuss animes and some comics. We know who Doctor Who is... We Love Tetris...simple.
If you find us in a public space, in the afternoon, you'll probably say, if you did notice us, "Oh...geeks". We will be laughing at silly things, technological jokes, language jokes, pointing out misspelled things, considering writing blogs about nothing and looking rather scruffy than polished. And I am guilty of wearing black-framed glasses. We do look the part, don't we?
If I have to say more characteristics, I would have to talk about me. I love watching science TV shows; I love Star Wars , even before I could understand everything (cause I first saw some of the episodes when I was younger...way younger); I grew up waiting to see every single episode of the X Files (which, of course I did); I love Sailor Moon, loved Evangelion, Pokemon, Sakura Card Captors and many other Animes (I used to plan my day around those shows); I like to dress up as the character of my favourite movies and, with my friends, we pick up which character of our favourite series we'd like to be. I enjoy reading dictionaries and encyclopaedias.
We may not speak Klingon, we may not have a passion for Battlestar Galactica, but we know about that kind of stuff.
Every time we find something funny yet scientific, we share it. A techno-joke on a shirt is priceless. We get this:

"There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.""If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0""Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
Are belong to you" (and yes...we all laughed at that viral video)
“F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr programming.” (wow, it's THAT easy? XD)“If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate”
(t-shirt jokes...they are so jokes!!! Credit to whoever came up with those quotes!)
We love spending our time in front of computers, playing, blogging, actually, wasting our time. Doing creative things with pictures, creating brushes for a software, watching videos in You Tube, and instead of going out, staying in, and watch an old episode of our favourite series, or movie. We do go out...when all the stars in the sky are in the right place. Or when you see a full moon...or ...well...you get the point.
We are the ones who get obsessed over things very easily and get obsessed over something for many years. We laugh (in an incredible funny way) at nothing and everything.
We've read a book in less than three days, we get easily distracted, and we can waste a lot of time talking about random things, which end up connected in some points. We know about what we love, and we sound passionate about those things...sometimes we don't even understand each other.

We know how to make a non-Newtonian fluid.
And that's how we roll.

(againg, sorry for my english...still working on it!-BTW I did not check this, so it may be a nightmare to understand! sorry!!)