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I Am A Geek Have you ever been to an irc meet/party/place where a whole lot of ircers were together at the same time? Have you ever had a conversation with someone you work with for the first time and talk about computers? Have you ever proclaimed that your hard drive was bigger than someone else's? Have you ever said, "I could do that site so much better than them" to yourself? Have you ever realised that you've been going into the same chat rooms for 3 years? I have, and it's quite scary. I am a geek. But I don't mean in the stereotypical way. I don't have inch thick glass. I rarely have a pimple. I don't study physics or calculus at university. I don't dribble when I speak. But nonetheless, I am a geek. I'm more of a cynical and bitter old woman who hates the world in the form of a 20 year old reclusive internet geek. I wear thin gold rimmed glasses. I wear black and grey so I'm always colour coordinated. I am on irc almost every day. I design websites for fun. I get excited when I meet someone else who likes to play with Photoshop. I like to read horror novels. I like to watch television. I have favourite programs. I like coffee and I smoke cigarettes. I sit in front of a computer all day at work. I sit in front of computer the rest of the day at home. I like to sleep a lot. I get upset when I can't get on a computer for more than a day. I don't often leave the house unless I'm going to work. I think that classifies me as a geek. I talk about computers every day. I do things on computers every day. I talk to my best friend on irc even though she lives next door and I can see into her bedroom from my computer. I often think I need to get out more, but I get bored when I do. I often wonder what I'd be like if I'd wasn't interested in the internet. Before I started using the internet heavily (sounds like a drug doesn't it) I was in a band. I also used to paint a lot and do photography. I used to party hard, drink hard and all things associated with that. Maybe I'm like that now in a parallel universe. But I no longer enjoy leaving the house to be surrounded by morons. I don't think I'm better than everyone else...well maybe I do. When you sit back and watch for a while you realise how sad and pathetic the majority of the population is. I went for a wander up Cuba Mall this afternoon when I was on my lunch break. My workmate told me about this "display" in the window front of a shop on Cuba had been turned into a house and there were 4 bald headed men living there. She told me how you could see them shower and eat and sleep. Of course I had to check this out for myself. I turned the corner on to Cuba Mall and saw a huge crowd standing in front of Farmers. I walked closer to get a better look. There was in the shop window the "house" she had described. There were 4 men sitting around a table eating lunch. There was also a crowd of at least 50 watching them. They were eating. It wasn't that interesting. In fact, it was just weird. I felt like a voyeur. I walked away disgusted with the intent looks on faces in crowd looking only at these 4 men. What has happened to society to make us so interested with things like that? Are their own lives so unfulfilled and boring? I can not stand people like this. I would much rather stay at home. I can not stand the moronity of our society. Although I seem to come across a lot of it on the internet too, at least I can just turn it off. Sometimes it's nice to be a geek and have the power of /ignore. |