No Holes To Dig
Jarod | July 31, 2006Ok now it’s summer, we all noticed that, thank you. Last night I could actually sleep since we had some rain. But dude, hand me a melon, if this is global warming and it’s only the start, I’m really happy I was born in the last century. Although I’d surely like to see the graphics of computer games a hundred years from now.
The topic of the week, let it be The Hole ™. Reruns on TV, not many interesting movies to premiere, no decent games coming out, news coverage about trivial things … ok now wait, don’t quote me on that. I mean, we have a war going on in the Middle East, once again. But from this very place, sitting in the summer sun, in front of a computer, surfing The Tubes ™, it seems pretty far away and only marginally interesting. All the news in the world can’t change that, in fact, it makes it worse. When your neighbour tells you about the terrible things that happen there you can relate. Through all the channels of modern media, alongside the usual entertaining programs it’s just a story from another world. I keep trying to remind me that it’s not.
In other exciting news, I just wanted to mention for those who have asked that absolutely nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83/9/12. I repeat, nothing happened. Please remain calm.
(If you got that reference right w/o googling, I bow my head to your geekness).
No really, when I get home at night and I sit on my chair I never make it past the first minutes of any game I might load. It sucks sticking to everything I touch. So I do it like all others, talk meaningless talk, make all the old jokes and point at the obvious: Go, download and try the demo of Call Of Juarez. Play both campaigns, the horseback riding is way more realistic (and more fun) than in Oblivion … which, I confess, I still haven’t beaten. Shame. On. Me. Anyway, the demo is long enough to make me want to play more and short enough to fill the hole … gap I mean – between two showers.
”nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83/9/12”
News item stated by Susan Ivanova during a ‘Voice of the Resistance’ broadcast.
The item was created by Sheridan in an attempt to sow doubt amongst the League of Non-aligned Worlds and was part of Sheridans plan to get White Star patrols instated along the borders. . Sheridan had previously sent Marcus to that sector and told him to blow up some asteroids to make it seem as though some activity was taking place.
And all from memory… you may now bow down to my geekness
I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy … I bow to your l33t geekness Sir Skybreaker!
*Sigh* It’s really a pity Susan (well, Claudia is her real name) didn’t come back to season 5.
hehe, i too recognised the quote straight up… good episode that one, he was tired of doing things the “hard way” as i recal
And its not a geek thing, just good memory.
Unless you start dressing up like the characters of the show, having debates with others about pointless stuff that hapened in a particular episode and how it influences the fabric of society as a whole. And view anyone that does not know what your talking about as geneticaly inferior. Then its a geek thing
Ok, granted. For me everything trivia related is geekdom; and what you mentioned I call fanboyism (now that’s a word) or nerd stuff but the line is thin
Did you have a look at Done The Impossible (the Firefly documentary I mentioned earlier)? The line is very thin indeed.
Ah yes the fanboy syndrome… nasty afliction that and yes i must agree my description does seem to fit rather well. Most likely i was thinking of fanboys when i wrote it, its hard to tell the 3 apart some times
The way i see it:
Geek is someone with a decent ammount of knowledge that has some weird need to convince others of just how smart he/she is.
Nerd is someone that spends a considerable ammount of time hiting the books to attain knowledge (or to whom knowledge comes naturaly without severe effort) and is not afraid to put it to use, but does not necessaraly go out of his/her way to prove how intelectualy superior he/she is.
Fanboy is an equal oportuneties term that applies to anyone that has more vested interest into any one topic that can be considered healthy. … add in the rest of the description of the above comment
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thats how i see it anyway