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Rowing the Pond Again
Gudlyf writes "Anne Quéméré, a French woman who had previously rowed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain to the West Indian island of Guadeloupe, is currently on her way to doing it again, only this time in the opposite direction. This season's challenge will take Anne 2700 nautical miles, from Chatham, Cape Cod (USA) to Brittany (France), her native land. She hopes to make it in less than 90 days. Is it just me, or does the giant fish on her boat scream 'shark bait' to you?"
Just because this appears to be more physical than cerebral doesn't mean that the person is not a nerd. [...]
A nerd doesn't have to be a computer geek. I think nerds have a passion for whatever they are doing.
Wow. These guys in my high school, they were really, really passionate about football and beating the shit out of us guys that were passionate about computers. They must've been the biggest nerds I ever knew!
This story is like the newscast that spends 26 minutes talking about murders, rapes, and natural disasters ... 3 minutes on sports ... and devotes the last three minutes to kittens that were stuck in the tree rescued by Mr. Owens from the YMCA.
If you're out of stories, either look back at some of my old rejected submissions, or repost something from yesterday.
Thank you. I could not agree more. At risk of being labelled a "troll", I also do not understand why this is being reported on Slashdot.
And in response to the reader who said that nerds are interested in this sort of thing, I whole-heartedly disagree. Perhaps I run with a different class of "nerds", but none that I know would care at all about this story.
My 2 cents.
I might if she was French.
An angry mosquito could attack France and be the new French Emperor by the end of the week.