Comment Re:Need New Term -- Not Geek/Not Nerd (Score 1) 639
true enough. i, however, still consider being geek/nerd a source of pride...perhaps it's not as bad where i come from, yet i have people CONSTANTLY telling me, "oh, you're not a geek. you just like computers." DAMMIT, I'M A GEEK! LONG LIVE GEEKDOM!
hey, the way i see it, high school may be hell (thank the jocks &co for that), but as soon as we get into the SCReW (meatspace, whatever) intel. will matter and those damn jocks will be begging us for a $0.10 raise per hour. i'm just waiting and coping. my friends (geeks and social outcasts, of course) and i decide that going postal would be useless because in a couple of years, we'd be in the "real" world, not the surreal world of high school.
the point of all this ranting is this: don't give up. geekdom is a good thing, and it will get better. just wait. caulking everybody isn't going to make it better. in fact, you'll make it worse for all the other geeks ... they'll see that you enjoyed gaming and the net and all the other wonderful things that the FBI target as potentials for violence and they'll all look at each other and say "see, it was the geeks. i told you so. ...and just look at all those poor jocks that got caulked. i wonder what they did to deserve this" which isn't what we want, is it?
--baeta
hey, the way i see it, high school may be hell (thank the jocks &co for that), but as soon as we get into the SCReW (meatspace, whatever) intel. will matter and those damn jocks will be begging us for a $0.10 raise per hour. i'm just waiting and coping. my friends (geeks and social outcasts, of course) and i decide that going postal would be useless because in a couple of years, we'd be in the "real" world, not the surreal world of high school.
the point of all this ranting is this: don't give up. geekdom is a good thing, and it will get better. just wait. caulking everybody isn't going to make it better. in fact, you'll make it worse for all the other geeks
--baeta
