i may not be that much of a geek (failed out of comp sci) but i do get laid, and often. in my social circle the only people who spend more time on a comp than me are the evercrack-heads... but thats because getting laid alot cuts into comp time. in college i achieved this by limiting myself to only two computers and i set them up inside my closet with a little wooden stool in between. of course college students are pretty much required to have a comp on the desk so you can actually get away with having three, and that can be adjusted depending on the size of your closet/monitors/towers. then, when you go out, dont wear cool shirts (trek, star wars, shirts with code on em) and by the time you get that freshman back to your hole... as long as you keep the door closed... shell have no idea about the skeletons in your closet. as for hygiene... i just add deodorant when i can start to smell myself.
i found myself in a similar situation about two years ago. all stoked up on the computer industry i went into cs. by the end of the second semester i had had it. i didnt want to learn anymore code, i didnt want to learn about new technologies i didnt want to go to class, i didnt want to do anything but sit in my room and suck up bandwidth on napster. needless to say i failed out of school. the absolute boredom and by the bookness of the classroom killed me. i learned more when i was sitting home staying up all night trawling the web and reading books on my own then when i was in school.
but i still love computers, even with a bad taste in my mouth.
so i went backwards and looked at what had made it so fun in the beginning, and easy enough to answer it was sitting in my room absorbing info and learning more about anything that i came across. unfortunately im older now and sitting in your room doesnt pay the damn bills. so i went back to something that hadnt soured yet, hardware. i had left hardware to do coding cause there was more money and that was my biggest mistake. so now im back in hardware, working on broadcast equipment for sony, and im happy.
--but i still dont get to spend enough time locked up in my room.
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i may not be that much of a geek (failed out of comp sci) but i do get laid, and often. in my social circle the only people who spend more time on a comp than me are the evercrack-heads ... but thats because getting laid alot cuts into comp time. in college i achieved this by limiting myself to only two computers and i set them up inside my closet with a little wooden stool in between. of course college students are pretty much required to have a comp on the desk so you can actually get away with having three, and that can be adjusted depending on the size of your closet/monitors/towers. ... as long as you keep the door closed ... shell have no idea about the skeletons in your closet. ... i just add deodorant when i can start to smell myself.
then, when you go out, dont wear cool shirts (trek, star wars, shirts with code on em) and by the time you get that freshman back to your hole
as for hygiene
i found myself in a similar situation about two years ago. all stoked up on the computer industry i went into cs. by the end of the second semester i had had it. i didnt want to learn anymore code, i didnt want to learn about new technologies i didnt want to go to class, i didnt want to do anything but sit in my room and suck up bandwidth on napster. needless to say i failed out of school. the absolute boredom and by the bookness of the classroom killed me. i learned more when i was sitting home staying up all night trawling the web and reading books on my own then when i was in school.
but i still love computers, even with a bad taste in my mouth.
so i went backwards and looked at what had made it so fun in the beginning, and easy enough to answer it was sitting in my room absorbing info and learning more about anything that i came across. unfortunately im older now and sitting in your room doesnt pay the damn bills. so i went back to something that hadnt soured yet, hardware. i had left hardware to do coding cause there was more money and that was my biggest mistake. so now im back in hardware, working on broadcast equipment for sony, and im happy.
--but i still dont get to spend enough time locked up in my room.