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In Defense of the Fanboy

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the alt-dot-nerd-dot-obsessive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ran across a great article over at TV Squad regarding obsessive internet fanboys. It's funny and pretty dead on about how we all benefit from the monomania of the typical fanboy." Where would my own useless mental database of knowledge about Green Lantern and Mobile Suit Gundam be without fanboys? Probably out on a date, but for now, thank a fanboy!

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  1. In defense of the Fangirl by 32771 · · Score: 3, Informative

    For some reason I mostly meet serious engineers and family people but it once happened that
    I went to a conference in California with some of my colleagues. There we were sitting in a hotel lounge fuzzing around with our laptops trying to get WLAN to work. Some girl sat nearby and said out of the blue that she didn't have any problems with her MAC to get trough their 'firewall' and that only pc people like us usually have problems with it.

    I was taken aback, speechless, well I probably mumbled something. I have a MAC myself and was maybe a MAC fanboy as long as they used PowerPCs as CPUs, yet I didn't say anything.

    There she was:
    1. female
    2. geeky
    3. audacious
    4. MAC fangirl (maybe convertible to a PowerPC fangirl?)

    She might have been the last crazy woman out there for me and I didn't say anything.

    Damn!

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    Je me souviens.