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Why Do Other Geeks Leave the House?
JG_Elliott asks: "Being a geek getting more and more frustrated with shopping trips, I've turned to the internet to buy things to save time and effort. This made me wonder, other than leaving the house for work/lectures/school, why do other geeks leave the house? What is in the big wide-world that you can't get online (other than real sex)? What do other geeks get up to in their spare time, that they recommend, as something to do out of the house?"
To go see the new star wars..duh.
Buying a new house. If my current house runs out, I have to buy a new one. In order to do that, I have to leave my current house.
...that's about everything I can't do online. Of course,if you have a laptop,everything changes
Because, quite frankly, you can't get decent produce by sending somebody else to get it.
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By throwing your pc out the window you will be overcome with the need to go out of the house for things like... food... shopping..
Your monitor...
Change of scenery, huh? Replace your windows with plasma screens. Works wonders, I can tell you.
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I think a more interesting and honest question is 'Why do people not leave the house?'. Is is related to past experiences? Is it a result or cause of social phobia? Is it related to the satisfying of short-term objectives? Is it related to intelligence or laziness? Is there a correlation between any variable (e.g. happiness) and time spent ouside? ... (fill in gap yourself)!
So does the good of outside-activity outweigh the bad, or vice versa? The relationship between obesity and inmobility has already been discussed numerous times.
In my opinion, there are lots of reasons to leave the house, which outweigh spending time inside. The best answer was already given: Life is out there! Nothing beats the sweet smell/feel/taste of
So you've noticed sex can be geeky to? You know, you half-wake in the middle of the night from a C-hacking dream with the raging horn and your s.o. lying next to you, there's only two chars' difference between hacking and **cking, one thing leads to another, we've all been there, right? As the int main(int argc, char *argv[]){..}s scroll through your minds eye, your scrolling through her pie! Know what I mean??
Right???
Stop looking at me like that!!
Yours Sincerely, Michael.
Which one usually wins? You, or your car?
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To throw garbage
(The cleaning company refused to send their employees inside my house to pick up the garbage bags)
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Apart from work, I leave the house to be Rejected by Women at parties.
:P )
It's better than drinking alone alone.
(I'm joking THey Run screaming before they can reject me
The last time I was at peace with the universe was a week I spent backpacking in the wilderness. In some ways it was like being at home (i.e. sleeping alone, almost no human interaction), but the only electronic device I had on me (or within a few days' hike) was my camera. No TV, no computer, no PDA, no phone, no pager, no radio, not even a watch... nada. Just me, the trails, the moose, the lakes, the wolf tracks, and the stars.
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If you don't go out of the house, you can't justify the purchase of your mobile (cell) phone, PDA, portable MP3 player and so on. So clearly, one important reason to go outside is to use your personal gadgetry.
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Leaving the house was the best thing that ever happened to me. ... Humans have human needs.
You do know they make indoor toilets now, right?