/* Oh, there’re sober men in plenty, And drunkards barely twenty, There are men of over ninety That have never yet kissed a girl. But gie me a ramblin’ rover, And fae Orkney down to Dover. We will roam the country over And together we’ll face the world. */
This song is oddly appropriate. Hopefully I won’t be one those men over ninety, but eh, the way things are it is possible.
Something unexpected is going to have to happen. I don’t really have any more ideas for locating people that are similar to me…
I don’t really know anyone (offline) that I can be myself with, I am forced to be “Dylan Lite”, and when I forget to modulate myself, people get annoyed, and give me that look, like I’m a martian… Now, I’m a good chameleon, but it is tiring.
The problem is anything I’m interested in, I learn much more about than a non-geek would. Well, no, this isn’t a problem. This is a useful and healthy facet of my personality… The problem is no one but another geek will understand this.
So the quesiton is, where would people like me hide? I’ve not seen a one at college, LUG, perl mongers, nor the half dozen other places I’ve tried. Probably anyone like me is hiding in front of their computer, hacking on code. :)
This is a logistical problem. Essentially I have to just pray to the Random Number Gods on accidently running into this or these hypothetical intellectual peers. I do not like that, no sir.
But what other choice is there? I refuse to believe I just have to rely on some cosmic rand() function… So I must think of ways of biasing the said function. :)
(Of course, if I really wanted to have a gf, I could probably find a ‘normal’ person, but there is no point. A pretty face is nice, but without a beautiful mind, I couldn’t care less.)
Ah well. Qué será será. What will be will be, but I hate that attitude! I am the master of my own future.
Still, I am content. It would be nice if there was a way you could go “Show me all geeks within fifty miles of $place”, though.
Hmm, I know the feeling, I really do. I can’t quite call myself a geek, but i do have a tendency to be a bit obsessive, and learn all I can about junk that interests me. And then if I don’t catch myself in time, I often wind up going on about some nonsense like the breeding habits of cichlids or the minor differences between like Norfolk and Norwich terriers. And really I used to hate not being able to have a ‘normal’ conversation with people and such.
But lately I’ve just grown to live with it. If people will want to talk to me, they can do so as much as they wish, its pointless trying to “conform” to them, and seek out their topics or whatever on my own. I’ve been sticking to that same ‘whatever happens, happens’ attitude. But for some reason I notice lately people have started to appreciate my eccentricness. Which feels quite awkward, I might add. Although for some reason I keep getting the feeling that its temporary, and that everyone will get bored with me or something. Not that I’m personally about to do something about it…
shrug I’m rambling now, my apologies. My point is, I get your point.