I saw this last night in our town's newest theatre, and they were showing it on the biggest screen with the best sound system. The audio for this film is just plain awesome! Everything was crisp and clear, and the entire theatre shook whenever Goodman roared. If you can manage it its definitely worth seeing in a theatre with a good sound system.
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phill
I graduated last year, and things have definately changed, but sex symbol I was not. A lot of it depends on the people you hang around though. I hung out with a fairly popular group in my HS so I wasn't shunned for my computer skills, and in fact a lot of people thought it was cool because typing a research paper at 100 wpm is definately faster than writing it out by hand or pecking at a keyboard. The unfortunate thing is that some people who are into computers do start to lose touch with the "outside world." One of my friends is starting to do this now as a CIS major and it is extremely sad since we used to go out and party together all the time. These people who isolate themselves are the people that are frowned upon by the rest of their classmates and peers. Its not that coding isn't fun or exciting, but try explaining enums to someone who can barely operate a computer and they are going to look at you funny because you are sitting in your room alone learning about these things. I think today geeks are getting out more and the fact that you don't hibernate(sp?) all the time does wonderful things for your social life.
Now as far as geeks as the new sex symbols go that is kind of interesting since I was talking to a girl the other day about this sort of thing. A large part of this I think is that there is a lot of money in the tech industry. A quote from this girl was, "If you pull up next to a guy in a car he gets a look. If he has a nice car you look twice." Now barring the fact she is incredibly shallow this probably can account for some of what you read since geekdom generally provides for a decent income.
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I saw this last night in our town's newest theatre, and they were showing it on the biggest screen with the best sound system. The audio for this film is just plain awesome! Everything was crisp and clear, and the entire theatre shook whenever Goodman roared. If you can manage it its definitely worth seeing in a theatre with a good sound system.
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phill
I graduated last year, and things have definately changed, but sex symbol I was not. A lot of it depends on the people you hang around though. I hung out with a fairly popular group in my HS so I wasn't shunned for my computer skills, and in fact a lot of people thought it was cool because typing a research paper at 100 wpm is definately faster than writing it out by hand or pecking at a keyboard. The unfortunate thing is that some people who are into computers do start to lose touch with the "outside world." One of my friends is starting to do this now as a CIS major and it is extremely sad since we used to go out and party together all the time. These people who isolate themselves are the people that are frowned upon by the rest of their classmates and peers. Its not that coding isn't fun or exciting, but try explaining enums to someone who can barely operate a computer and they are going to look at you funny because you are sitting in your room alone learning about these things. I think today geeks are getting out more and the fact that you don't hibernate(sp?) all the time does wonderful things for your social life. Now as far as geeks as the new sex symbols go that is kind of interesting since I was talking to a girl the other day about this sort of thing. A large part of this I think is that there is a lot of money in the tech industry. A quote from this girl was, "If you pull up next to a guy in a car he gets a look. If he has a nice car you look twice." Now barring the fact she is incredibly shallow this probably can account for some of what you read since geekdom generally provides for a decent income.