I'm truly touched that you guys put us on the block, though I'm now a little disheartened to know that our 40-some votes didn't come out of nowhere like I originally thought. That's cool, though, 'coz I don't even know what a "Digg" is anyway.
To be topical, I guess I'm going to have to be the voice of dissent here: I was totally a "punk kid" growing up, and to some extent maintain a level of "punk geek" (closer to punk, according to your scale). I was always more interested in being popular and having fun than, y'know, programming or whatever. I'm sure a lot of it was due to the fact that I was pretty much the only dorky person I knew growing up until late in high school. I was always jealous of people that could play Dungeons and Dragons with their dork buddies and talk about the next hot MUD, or whatever. Most of my formative years were spent with cigarettes and alcohol, a trend that continues to this day... I just have dorky friends now so we can drink while we play Warioware.
It's the best of both worlds!
I do think your scale of development is a little flawed, though, and biases itself too much towards the geek. After all, a lot of those punk kids turned out to be investment bankers pulling down a hundred grand a year (or more), while I'm stuck as a contractor with no benefits in a cheesy fiber optics job. Hooray geekdom! Unfortunately, being able to tell the difference between multimode and singlemode cable is rarely enough to get you laid on Friday night.
Just a heads up to Rym or Scott. The Monday show is not listed in the itunes directory, neither are any other shows from this week in the single GeekNights weekly directory. Other then that, good work lads.
Just a heads up to Rym or Scott. The Monday show is not listed in the itunes directory, neither are any other shows from this week in the single GeekNights weekly directory. Other then that, good work lads.
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Punk kid? No.
To be topical, I guess I'm going to have to be the voice of dissent here: I was totally a "punk kid" growing up, and to some extent maintain a level of "punk geek" (closer to punk, according to your scale). I was always more interested in being popular and having fun than, y'know, programming or whatever. I'm sure a lot of it was due to the fact that I was pretty much the only dorky person I knew growing up until late in high school. I was always jealous of people that could play Dungeons and Dragons with their dork buddies and talk about the next hot MUD, or whatever. Most of my formative years were spent with cigarettes and alcohol, a trend that continues to this day... I just have dorky friends now so we can drink while we play Warioware.
It's the best of both worlds!
I do think your scale of development is a little flawed, though, and biases itself too much towards the geek. After all, a lot of those punk kids turned out to be investment bankers pulling down a hundred grand a year (or more), while I'm stuck as a contractor with no benefits in a cheesy fiber optics job. Hooray geekdom! Unfortunately, being able to tell the difference between multimode and singlemode cable is rarely enough to get you laid on Friday night.