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.

22 comments:

Johnny Logic said...

*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.

ticknart said...

"Monty Python isn't funny."

ticknart said...

"I think the government should just ban all of those websites."

ticknart said...

"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."

otis said...

Data analysis is generally inferior to intuition.

otis said...

was there anything more boring than DRM arguments?

heels said...

Buffy vs. River (HAHA!)

ticknart said...

"Those Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg movies are horrible."

ticknart said...

(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."

ticknart said...

"The Simpsons is funnier now than it's ever been."

ticknart said...

"Terminator: Salvation is the best one yet!"

ticknart said...

"PCs are the only real gaming platform."

ticknart said...

"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."

ticknart said...

"If webcomics were any good, they'd be in the newspaper."

ticknart said...

"Indie comics are just pointless exercise in self loathing."

ticknart said...

"MySpace is the best thing to ever happen to the internet."

ticknart said...

"Did you know there's no sound in space?"

ticknart said...

"Twilight vampires are the only real vampires."

ticknart said...

"JJ Abrams really gets Star Trek."

ticknart said...

"Reality TV is way better than the regular stuff."

heels said...

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!

ticknart said...

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.