Bandwidth as an attractant... maybe I should print off some bumper stickers. "I've got broadband and no current girlfriend. Want the job?"
Hells yes, you'd get my attention.
I remember driving down I-75 through downtown Atlanta once last year and there was a car in the lane to the left of me that had a big Red Hat sticker on the back... better believe I was trying to check him out. Though I'm out of the dating market these days, it can be mighty tough to even make friends with people who are into technology. It's because they all hide at home in the blue glow of their monitors...
If all the "geeks" had special identifying insignia, it'd make making friends SO much easier. No need to waste time making smalltalk with someone to find out he/she doesn't have a clue...
I had completely forgotten that song.. one night in Bangkok. I don't suppose you're a chess master too?!
*ahem* well, I probably wouldn't remember all the moves now. I used to play often with my husband, but we haven't played since the time I finally beat him... heh. Funny, it just hasn't come up since then.
I have got to wonder just how exactly anyone, including Mr. Katz, knows what women do online. Sure, you can look at chickclick and say *those* women come online to hang out with other women, but I do no such thing. The IRC channel I hang out on is a web development help channel and I'm one of about three or four female regulars. My nicks usually don't indicate my gender and 99% of the people in and out of there assume I must be male, because I'm hanging out on a geek channel trying to convince people to code in PHP and dropkicking point-and-click WinNuke "hackers"... no nice cuddly "feminine" discourse there. Can't tell you how often someone asks if I've got a website, and when they go look at it, it's "Oh man, you're a CHICK?" Given that the default gender for a person in American language *and* society is "male", that's what women online will be assumed to be unless they explicitly speak up to say otherwise. And a lot of women online see no need to announce it.
You can't make any generalizations about *all* women based on the preferences/behaviors of the women who seek out online female communities. That's just sloppy; you might as well make generalizations about *all* men based on, say, those who like pro wrestling---it's tempting, I know, but it'd be wrong. I really love how all these "rah, women!" articles written by men wind up being just as patronizing as the usual shit. Is "women aren't smart enough to get online" really all THAT much worse than "women only get online so they can find other women to discuss knitting and childcare and fashion accessories with"?
You're right. It's so obvious: we should just roll over, play dead, and let Microsoft rule the Internet, the desktop, and the entire "internet economy" as well. Preach on, brother.
*/sarcasm*
man, hacker elitism chafes my ass. you have two choices, okay, stagnation or revolution. If we, the broad we that includes everyone from snarky uptight hackers right down to the desktop end-user, want revolution, then we have to play by the rules of the current power structure---and that's Microsoft. Microsoft's rules involve big money, corporate wheeling and dealing, and much Wall Street glory; that's how it is and Microsoft will *not* be overthrown by a straggling bunch of anti-establishment recluses who are too busy being l33t to think about the way power intersects with technology in the real world.
Right now it looks like Red Hat's got the best chance of any Linux distro of making out there in the real world, and I for one think anyone who claims to be a Linux devotee should be behind them 100% right now. Even if it's not your distro of choice, they're the ones with the foot in the door, and we have to crack the mainstream OS market open to competition *some*how.
:But the worst thing is when you do get a :girlfriend, they always bitch about you :being on the computer and you have to say :"HEY WOMAN!!! SHUT UP, I'M DOING SOMETHING :POINTFUL HERE, UNLIKE YOU WATCHING TV ALL :THE TIME!!!!!"
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Bandwidth as an attractant... maybe I should print off some bumper stickers. "I've got broadband and no current girlfriend. Want the job?"
Hells yes, you'd get my attention.
I remember driving down I-75 through downtown Atlanta once last year and there was a car in the lane to the left of me that had a big Red Hat sticker on the back... better believe I was trying to check him out. Though I'm out of the dating market these days, it can be mighty tough to even make friends with people who are into technology. It's because they all hide at home in the blue glow of their monitors...
If all the "geeks" had special identifying insignia, it'd make making friends SO much easier. No need to waste time making smalltalk with someone to find out he/she doesn't have a clue...
(me? techno-elitist snob? why do you ask?)
*ahem* well, I probably wouldn't remember all the moves now. I used to play often with my husband, but we haven't played since the time I finally beat him... heh. Funny, it just hasn't come up since then.
You can't make any generalizations about *all* women based on the preferences/behaviors of the women who seek out online female communities. That's just sloppy; you might as well make generalizations about *all* men based on, say, those who like pro wrestling---it's tempting, I know, but it'd be wrong. I really love how all these "rah, women!" articles written by men wind up being just as patronizing as the usual shit. Is "women aren't smart enough to get online" really all THAT much worse than "women only get online so they can find other women to discuss knitting and childcare and fashion accessories with"?
*/sarcasm*
man, hacker elitism chafes my ass. you have two choices, okay, stagnation or revolution. If we, the broad we that includes everyone from snarky uptight hackers right down to the desktop end-user, want revolution, then we have to play by the rules of the current power structure---and that's Microsoft. Microsoft's rules involve big money, corporate wheeling and dealing, and much Wall Street glory; that's how it is and Microsoft will *not* be overthrown by a straggling bunch of anti-establishment recluses who are too busy being l33t to think about the way power intersects with technology in the real world.
Right now it looks like Red Hat's got the best chance of any Linux distro of making out there in the real world, and I for one think anyone who claims to be a Linux devotee should be behind them 100% right now. Even if it's not your distro of choice, they're the ones with the foot in the door, and we have to crack the mainstream OS market open to competition *some*how.
:But the worst thing is when you do get a
:girlfriend, they always bitch about you
:being on the computer and you have to say
:"HEY WOMAN!!! SHUT UP, I'M DOING SOMETHING
:POINTFUL HERE, UNLIKE YOU WATCHING TV ALL
:THE TIME!!!!!"
You, bucko, hang out with the wrong women.
Your fault, not theirs.