Geekier than thou!
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 6:24PM 
Today I realised just what a Geek I am. I overheard my daughter trying to explain to her friends that her Daddy is a Doctor, but not a Doctor who operates on people, no, her daddy reads books, looks at people's brains, teaches people, and loves computers....
Yup, even my daughter thinks I am Doctor Geek. Well, in 2007 there is nothing cooler than being a Geek! The world is changing! Girls used to love football players, now they love the guy who can operate their Personal Video Recorder, hack the local municipality computer to squash their traffic fines, and who is geeky enough to work for Apple, Google or Microsoft (in that order) and get the BIG MONEY!
You may remember this wonderful cartoon that I blogged about a year and half ago (June 2005)? It illustrates that Geeks rule in the new world!
So, to remind you of that, I thought I would use this fallow time between Christmas and New year to share a few Geek quotes... Learn these and you'll be off to a good Geek start for 2007. They come from here.
Top 10 Geek Quotes:
1. There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. - Unknown
2. If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0 - T-Shirt
3. Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips." - Unknown
4. My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard, and they're like you wanna trade cards? Darn right, I wanna trade cards, I'll trade this but not my charizard. - Unknown
5. 1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 a l1f3 - tee shirt
6. I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly - T-Shirt
7. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Unknown
8. A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Unknown
9. This one's my favourite! I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code
- Unknown
10. My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. - Unknown
There you have it... If you understand more than 5 of these you're a Geek. If you understand number 1, you're rated an UBER Geek (with ubermicro.... See www.purpwnage.com for more on ubermicro). However, based on my daughter, I am Geekier than thou!
Any other UberGeeks out there!? Any better quotes? I'd love to hear from you! The comments button is just a mouse click away.
PS. The title for this post, and the cartoon, come from a great website called geek culture... I bought a few pins and T-Shirts from them. They also have a fantastic daily cartoon!
Reader Comments (3)
You thought those were funny?
Here's two more!
The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed LINUX.
- Unknown
AND
Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
Are belong to you
- someone at slashdot
AND
People say that if you play Microsoft CD's backwards, you hear satanic things, but that's nothing, because if you play them forwards, they install Windows.
- Unknown
AND
In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
- unknown
AND
You have just received the Amish Computer Virus. Since the Amish don't have computers, it is based on the honor system. So please delete all the files from your computer. Thank you for you cooperation.
- Unknown
AND
Failure is not an option -- it comes bundled with Windows.
- Unknown
AND
You know it's love when you memorize her IP number [edited by Dion, should read IP address... Geek!] to skip DNS overhead. [And yes, I do know Megie's IP Address, it is 192.169.16.151... Generic, I know, but it does the job on our home network].
AND
Use The Best...
Linux for Servers
Mac for Graphics
Palm for Mobility
Windows for Solitaire
- T-Shirt
AND a final fave...
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
- ? [Trust me, I have a doctorate in AI, I can vouch for this]
- Unknown
Hey there D
I always said that Youth Pastors were geeks at school. They became Youth Pastors because then the kids would dig them. Well, I became a youth pastor and now...a minister. what does that say? By the way, I can't read binary but I get the joke, does that count?
blessings to you Megs, Corts and BJ (can't really say Li's...it doesn't work). So glad to see he is doing so well.
Oh yes and you probably thought you had the sexiest voice on Radio Pulpit...that is of course until this morning...now it's me.
Cheers
J
These are so funny. I'm going to print them out and glue them to my IT file.