Journal t0qer's Journal: Now they try and tell us how to be geeks 2

I remember 7 years ago, when windows95 was just coming out, and everyone was still using NDS how it wasn't cool to be a geek.

The cool people wanted nothing to do with you, they just wanted you to fix their pc and go away, back to whatever it was you were doing. For me it was back to my desk to dial out to the roadkill grill to get my BRE turns in.

Over the years, the meaning of geek has gone from really smart social retard to ooh you're smart and cool let's pay you lot's of money to "oh you're one of those lazy dot commers I should avoid hiring you like the plague"

The bad part was, the social vampires took our jobs with thier abilities to shmooze. Too many real geeks are nothing more than casualties living Unemployment check to unemployment check.

The companies wonder why their machines still don't work right...

Since 9/11 i've been seeing a lot that privacy I used to enjoy as a geek being taken away. The net was our shelter from reality, free of borders and boundries the kids of the internet day have very quickly surpassed the modem kids of my day. I know 16 year olds that know linux inside and out! It's amazing what some of these kids can do.

Their parents watch their closed doors nervously. They stay in their rooms all day, all they hear is click click tap tap. Is their kid doing drugs? Is he a hacker? Are they somehow helping the terrorist?

No, it's none of the above. You get to a point with computers where it get's harder and harder to explain what it is that you're doing to normal people. It's not 3l33tism. We just don't feel like wasting an hour explaining something you're not going to understand anyways and we'd rather go spend time with our machines than spend another fucking minute talking to your stupid ass.

30 in Feburary. Jeesh, I can't believe how quickly this time has passed. Wife, house, dog, cat, I'm allmost ready to be a parent. I look forward to seeing that closed door with the clickety click tap tap sound coming from my kids bedroom.