I have finally gone around the deep end, as far as “my generation” is concerned. After typing some rather snarky little comments on a social networking site that were greatly amusing to my sleep-deprived geeky mind, I suddenly had something of an epiphany. I love homework.
I suppose that I should have seen it coming. After all, since this school year of 2010 started, I have been taking a bizarre sort of pleasure in completing my pre-calculus homework. “No,” I told myself, “Surely this is some sort of bizarre coincidence! Surely I haven’t removed myself so far from the “normality” of “my generation” that I actually LIKE doing pre-calculus!” Unfortunately, that was only the beginning……
I was up late, completing some essays for English, when I suddenly realized that I did not want to stop. Yes, that’s right, I wanted MORE! I wanted to type and type and type until the stupid chickens next door started crowing and the sun came up and I was shivering from the cold and lack of sleep, with tousled hair and blood-shot EYES! But of course, It was already about two or three o’clock in the morning, and I hadn’t had that much sleep in the past week. So instead I passed out on my floor and slept for a few hours. But wait! THERE’S MORE!!!!
I was, once again, up late at night (or early in the morning, if you prefer), when I got an overwhelming urge to read my chemistry book. So I read seventy-seven pages. I learned all about Democritus and John Dalton, cathodes, anodes, the law of equal proportions, the law of multiple proportions, the 110 discovered elements on the periodic table, the lack of mass in light and gamma rays, quantum energy levels, etc. IT WAS FUN!!!
Next thing you know, I’ll be reading ALL my textbooks for fun. BUT WAIT! I already do that!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Height of Obscurity
Acronyms. Random hieroglyphics. Strange patterns of letters that can’t possibly mean anything, yet do.
Call ‘em what you like, but a true geek just LOVES (with a capital “L” and that rhymes with “spell” and that stands for “spellcheck!”) to use initials for anything and everything.
Consider if you would, the following phrase:
“Yup, I was sitting in my chair in front of my XP, thinking about which CPU internalized process I needed to defrag my BUS with, when all of the sudden, my AMD x2 processor, operating at full GHz capacity, decided to trash my SBC! Working hard, I was finally able to pinpoint the problem on my RAM, which is a relief because I’d rather that my HDD wasn’t corrupted. Of course, I was able to download the problem in question to my D drive, after extensive quarantine programming in MMF2 using MOOSOCK utilities, but I was able to save my STX and WMM files, and that’s all that matters. Unfortunately, all I had to write to was a CDRW!
Yes, dear reader, I do believe that phrase speaks for itself!
In fact, this discussion of acronyms ties in rather well with another topic: the geek’s usage of obscure and complicated phrases.
In algebra math, while everyone else uses such mundane phrases such as “Divide by that number by the x,” does the geek give in to this blatant normality? NO! He does not bow! He does not break! He uses the rather more obscure but entirely more descriptive phrase “Multiply by the reciprocal of the coefficient of the variable!”
When asked to help with computer antispyware efforts, does the geek say, “Delete your tracking programs?” NO! He does not! He says, “Run an IP disc cleanup program to identify and erase any subversive cookies found on your hard drive!”
When asked, “What is the best way to kill a zombie?” does he say, “Bash it in the head?”
NO!
HE!
DOES!
NOT!
Instead, he might say, “Effect massive cranial damage with blunt force trauma in such a way as to incapacitate the central nervous system!”
Point made.
Call ‘em what you like, but a true geek just LOVES (with a capital “L” and that rhymes with “spell” and that stands for “spellcheck!”) to use initials for anything and everything.
Consider if you would, the following phrase:
“Yup, I was sitting in my chair in front of my XP, thinking about which CPU internalized process I needed to defrag my BUS with, when all of the sudden, my AMD x2 processor, operating at full GHz capacity, decided to trash my SBC! Working hard, I was finally able to pinpoint the problem on my RAM, which is a relief because I’d rather that my HDD wasn’t corrupted. Of course, I was able to download the problem in question to my D drive, after extensive quarantine programming in MMF2 using MOOSOCK utilities, but I was able to save my STX and WMM files, and that’s all that matters. Unfortunately, all I had to write to was a CDRW!
Yes, dear reader, I do believe that phrase speaks for itself!
In fact, this discussion of acronyms ties in rather well with another topic: the geek’s usage of obscure and complicated phrases.
In algebra math, while everyone else uses such mundane phrases such as “Divide by that number by the x,” does the geek give in to this blatant normality? NO! He does not bow! He does not break! He uses the rather more obscure but entirely more descriptive phrase “Multiply by the reciprocal of the coefficient of the variable!”
When asked to help with computer antispyware efforts, does the geek say, “Delete your tracking programs?” NO! He does not! He says, “Run an IP disc cleanup program to identify and erase any subversive cookies found on your hard drive!”
When asked, “What is the best way to kill a zombie?” does he say, “Bash it in the head?”
NO!
HE!
DOES!
NOT!
Instead, he might say, “Effect massive cranial damage with blunt force trauma in such a way as to incapacitate the central nervous system!”
Point made.
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