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Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life?
JustShootMe writes "I have a question for my fellow Slashdotters, and yes, I realize I am entering the lion's den covered in tasty meat-flavored sauce. I have never been a very social person, preferring to throw myself into technology; therefore, I've been spectacularly unsuccessful in developing any meaningful interpersonal relationships. Lately I have begun to feel that this situation is not tenable, and I would like to fix it. But I really don't know how and haven't the faintest idea where to start. I know that I am in the minority and that there are many different kinds of Slashdot readers, most of whom have more experience in this realm than I do. So please tell me: how, and more importantly, where do you meet fellow geeks — preferably including some of the opposite gender — in meatspace?"
where are my damn mod up points when I need them??
-- All this knowledge is giving me a raging brainer.
I'm baffled by the dichotomy, that you seem to be both Christian and look down on the poor. Jesus did say "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." (depending on which translation you use).
Would these gay geeks happen to be furries?
Wasn't Jon Katz fired after that story he made up, about an afghan boy e-mailing him with him commodore 64 which was buried in his backyard for years?
aha here it is: http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/17/204207
even the NY times wrote about the fraud: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/29/technology/afghan-e-mail-seen-as-too-geek-to-be-true.html
So no, slashdot was as bad then as it is today. Maybe the trolls were better..? (anyone remember netcraft?)