Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Geeks
The GeekDad column from Wired gives us the Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument. I encourage you to add your own in the comments.
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When working in a medium sized office setting, you tend to share links with your co-workers, and then forget to show your other friends. This is a demonstration of what a recent study claims we spend 25% of our office time doing (while maintaining or even increasing productivity). Our managers, on the other hand, would call them "distractions".
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22 comments:
*Net neutrality, who cares?
*Free open source software must be worthless/unreliable, since no one is making money.
*Science fiction will never rise to the level of literature.
"Monty Python isn't funny."
"I think the government should just ban all of those websites."
"Star Wars (or Trek) is better than Star Trek (or Wars)."
"The Phantom Menace is my favorite."
"Kirk sucks."
"Babylon 5 is the best science fiction series. Except for Andromeda."
Data analysis is generally inferior to intuition.
was there anything more boring than DRM arguments?
Buffy vs. River (HAHA!)
"Those Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg movies are horrible."
(Although, "normal" people would probably say Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz.)
"Economics is a science."
"Science is like religion because it blindly beleives thing that it can't see or prove."
"The Simpsons is funnier now than it's ever been."
"Terminator: Salvation is the best one yet!"
"PCs are the only real gaming platform."
"Stephen Hawking is the smartest person on the planet."
"That super collider thing they just built is going to destroy the world."
"Those robots on Mars were a waste of taxpayer money."
"If webcomics were any good, they'd be in the newspaper."
"Indie comics are just pointless exercise in self loathing."
"MySpace is the best thing to ever happen to the internet."
"Did you know there's no sound in space?"
"Twilight vampires are the only real vampires."
"JJ Abrams really gets Star Trek."
"Reality TV is way better than the regular stuff."
Wow... The topics run the gamut from truly contentious to just plain pitiful (as in, I pity the person who believes those particular statements). Also, impressive volume- you thought about this a lot!
I'm bored at work.
The saddest one, to me, is the sound in space one because I was asked that by someone who I respected. And he was shocked (SHOCKED!) to discover there's no sound in space.
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