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Shamelessly geeky (onnastick, or innabun)
For some reason, I'm rifling through memories lately, gently plodding through the depths of a mostly forgotten past — not with any bitterness or regret, mind, just with a backwards-kind of curiosity, recalling my odd journey of life thus far. So I was recounting holiday trips to Bendigo with an ex whose family resided there — "who's a geek", I added — to which he said, "So which of the guys you've been with isn't a geek?" Pause. Takes stock. Honestly though, a geek girl needs at least an understanding partner who can comprehend her love for her computers, that she gets excited by an elegant hack (regardless of programming language), that she lives half her life online and via a terminal window, and that she had a tendency to make obscure references to HHGTTG (not just the bits about cricket), perhaps some vague reflection on Star Trek (Next Gen, please), though time and lack of opportunity has dulled this particular one's speed at making references to the Discworld series. Y'know, add-your-own-geek-stereotype-attribute-here, et cetera. "Well, one of them happens to be an opera singer now, but he was the one who taught me how to make my first Web page. Does he count?" Posted by sniffles at January 04, 2004 03:59 AM