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Is the Seeking of Lost Skills/Arts a Hacking Analog?
bigattichouse asks: "Having just finished my first batch of home-brew beer, I've been thinking about my attraction to 'lost arts', and collecting books on 'how to do stuff'. Some I try, some I just read: metalsmithing, sewing, baking bread, making soap, knot tying, brewing beer, woodcarving, yogurt and cheese.. there are so many skills 'lost' in the modern 'american' lifestyle... but I find my fellows tend to have books on these subjects lying around, too. Is this common in geekdom? Is this an expression of 'hacking' outside of machinery/engineering?"
this an expression of 'hacking' outside of machinery/engineering?"
Nope, this is an utter waste of time. There are so many other useful skills that you could learn with your precious time. Why learn stuff that you will never use ?
Siggy Say, Siggy Do
I can't stand people who say 'hacking' is learning or exploring. Hacking is breaking into an electronic system, case closed. It's not baking bread, painting, building a go-cart, picking a lock or exploring.
If the dollar is an "I owe you nothing", then the Euro is a "Who owes you nothing." - Doug Casey
yeah, I'm guilty as charged!
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
Thats why their geeks. The thirst for knowledge need not be contained in any one discipline.
Too bad you don't have a thirst for knowledge in third grade grammar skills.
Perhaps Sir Geek should learn the difference between the possessive and the contraction.
Then try hopping to grammar, "their" != "they're", I'm shocked by how few people know English. No wonder no one else understands us, we don't even know how to speak our own language...
Maybe there's a difference, but in the end they're all a bunch of fags.
*freak*
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!