Agreed on the agenda for physical activity, appearance, and the listening.
In my case, I started training in martial arts when I was a kid because I wanted to, not because I wanted to impress people. It just felt right. The added side effect of feeling comfortable in almost any situation was just a bonus (and from what the girls and women I have know say, that is very attractive. The swords, aparently, also didn't hurt.). Not having to get into fights in high school after everyone heard about the one I was in my freshman year was just icing on the cake.
As far as the appearance went, I usually went for what my ex refered to as "cutely frumpled". I tended to dress pretty well, but didn't agonize over every strand of hair. I liked to look decent, but I also wanted to be comfortable.
That was the case for some of them, but not for others. Being chased by the girls from aerobics when I was in college comes to mind (there seems to be something attractive about a guy who fights with a sword, and our practice room was right down the hall from them.)
Besides, most of the girls I dated asked me out, not the other way around.
I miss the coffee houses on campus. I enjoyed sitting there during the colder quarters, bashing on code, drinking hot chocolate, and flirting with the cute co-eds.
During the warmer months, I generally took my work out on one of the busier greens. =]
Funny that. I was a geek in high school too, but I never really had a lack of dates. Played chess, tutored, drama, yearbook/newspaper, was a computer geek, and still got the girls (all very attractive).
Of course, I also wasn't a 98lb weakling either. I was close to 6' tall and fairly well muscled from the martial training. I had to keep telling the football and track and field coaches that I wasn't interested in joining.
Try getting out into the world once in a while. Geeks actually get dates now. Most of us with "normal" people. Some of us with people that the "normal" people never have a chance with.
Don't get me wrong, I understand the stereotypes, but the 80's are over.
The thing that really amused me was one of my previous bosses. He typed exactly the same way that he spoke. This is where I should mention that he was a little African-American guy from Arkansas (and fit the stereotypes, frighteningly enough).
It was painful to read his emails. I would almost swear that I felt brain cells dying while trying to read his slaughtering of the English language.
*raises hand and chuckles* Though, for some of us, it's not a matter of have we had sex, it's a matter of locations on the list of "places I want to screw" we haven't checked off yet (yes, I actually knew a girl who had a list of exactly that).
"damned internet pop ups and viruses putting porn on my machine"
yes, I've heard that kind of excuse before. Yes, it amuses the heck out of me. They seem to be so dead set against it, but it fascinates them so. Kind of like the cheesecake downstairs in the fridge at 2am.
I'm Taoist, I like porn, but I perfer playing with real people. call me weird:p
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"As a group, the Indians that I have met are well educated, with significantly better math skills than most US workers."
You know, the funny thing that I have noticed about most of the Indian IT people I've seen is that they are really good at "by the book" problems where there is a well documented way of doing something.
Give them a set of detailed instructions to follow, and they generally do fairly well. However, when you gave something non-standard, not completely spelled out, or innovative to them, they had no real idea how to do it. This is just personal experience, though, and YMMV.
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That never ceases to amaze me. I've been an admin and have had to work around the constraints of a windows only shop (when a lot of network tools on *nix that aren't on windows would have helped), but I had to abide by the "windows only" standard.
Now, as a dev, I routinely have to listen to customers and write up requirements from what they say they need, their environment, etc.
If I pulled the "I don't care what you want, I'm doing X" routine, nobody would ever hire me again.
Waiting until the next fiscal year is a nice cover. Yes, it would make some of the paperwork involved in making the changes a bit easier.
Chances are, however, that they are hoping that by April things will have blown over and they can go back to buisness as usual. People tend to have very short memories for things which do not impact them directly (and for a lot of things that do).
Not true at all. A lot of the time, lawyers get paid no matter what. They only get paid when you do if that is part of the contract you have with them.
Setting off a nuke is only a $500 fine? Time to take my old hobby of blowing up stuff to another level? heh (Hey, I come by it honestly. My great grandfather was a demotions man for the railroads and taught me the joy of things that go *boom* when I was a wee, evil, impressionable lad)
Not that I would ever likely *want* to set off a nuclear device. I have this thing against glowing in the dark. =]
The code of honor and general feeling of brotherhood in the CS program at the university I went to was frightening. It was literally the only place I know of on campus where you could leave things all day and know that nobody would bother them. Someone might look throught a book for an answer if it was sitting on the desk, but it would be there when you got back. Worst case, someone might move the chair your stuff was in so they could use the Sun.
It also wasn't unusual to see us crash on the (extremely comfy) couches in the halls for an hour or so or even to crash on someone's couch if you didn't live on campus and had a long night.
Where did I go? Ohio University in Athens, a school generally known for it's "party" nature (but also with a good CS program, one of the best journalism programs in the nation, and a few other well known programs).
Okay, at least I wasn't the only one to read the word "goto" and had to supress a shudder.
The last time I did that was because I was bored and reqworked a program I wrote a few weeks before, so I wrote it using as much spagetti logic as I could. After that, I never wanted to look at gotos again. (Like I said, I was bored and the weather sucked.)
I happen to be in southern Ohio and I am neither a redneck nor a Bush supporter.
I do, however, agree that Ohio tends to be split on the issues, but it's divided into more than just two sections. The lake region tends to be more liberal, Appalacia tends to be really conservative, central Ohio is usually fairly moderate though it does occasionally swing toward one end or the other of the spectrum, and Cinci is just plain weird at times (This is the town that Jerry Springer was mayor of, after all. They even arrested a little old lady for obstruction because she went around feeding expired parking meters so people wouldn't get tickets.).
It will take quite a while before you have the skill to start working on blades. You start out with simple things like hooks, tools, etc.
The simple things teach you hammer control, curves, and let you get used to learning how the metal responds. from there you increase the difficulty of the things that you make both in forms and materials.
When the grandparent said "continue your education" he/she probably meant expanding your skills in the field or taking classes toward a masters degree. Continuing education does not mean that you have to do something completely different.
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Agreed on the agenda for physical activity, appearance, and the listening.
In my case, I started training in martial arts when I was a kid because I wanted to, not because I wanted to impress people. It just felt right. The added side effect of feeling comfortable in almost any situation was just a bonus (and from what the girls and women I have know say, that is very attractive. The swords, aparently, also didn't hurt.). Not having to get into fights in high school after everyone heard about the one I was in my freshman year was just icing on the cake.
As far as the appearance went, I usually went for what my ex refered to as "cutely frumpled". I tended to dress pretty well, but didn't agonize over every strand of hair. I liked to look decent, but I also wanted to be comfortable.
That was the case for some of them, but not for others. Being chased by the girls from aerobics when I was in college comes to mind (there seems to be something attractive about a guy who fights with a sword, and our practice room was right down the hall from them.)
Besides, most of the girls I dated asked me out, not the other way around.
I miss the coffee houses on campus. I enjoyed sitting there during the colder quarters, bashing on code, drinking hot chocolate, and flirting with the cute co-eds.
During the warmer months, I generally took my work out on one of the busier greens. =]
Funny that. I was a geek in high school too, but I never really had a lack of dates. Played chess, tutored, drama, yearbook/newspaper, was a computer geek, and still got the girls (all very attractive).
Of course, I also wasn't a 98lb weakling either. I was close to 6' tall and fairly well muscled from the martial training. I had to keep telling the football and track and field coaches that I wasn't interested in joining.
"haha find me that ad"
:P
He wants the ad. I'd rather have the girl.
Try getting out into the world once in a while. Geeks actually get dates now. Most of us with "normal" people. Some of us with people that the "normal" people never have a chance with.
Don't get me wrong, I understand the stereotypes, but the 80's are over.
The thing that really amused me was one of my previous bosses. He typed exactly the same way that he spoke. This is where I should mention that he was a little African-American guy from Arkansas (and fit the stereotypes, frighteningly enough).
It was painful to read his emails. I would almost swear that I felt brain cells dying while trying to read his slaughtering of the English language.
That's still smaller than some cities in this country. Now there's an idea....
Put them all in one city, only show them the shows they want to see, and leave the rest of us the heck alone.
*raises hand and chuckles*
Though, for some of us, it's not a matter of have we had sex, it's a matter of locations on the list of "places I want to screw" we haven't checked off yet (yes, I actually knew a girl who had a list of exactly that).
"damned internet pop ups and viruses putting porn on my machine"
:p
yes, I've heard that kind of excuse before. Yes, it amuses the heck out of me. They seem to be so dead set against it, but it fascinates them so. Kind of like the cheesecake downstairs in the fridge at 2am.
I'm Taoist, I like porn, but I perfer playing with real people. call me weird
"As a group, the Indians that I have met are well educated, with significantly better math skills than most US workers."
You know, the funny thing that I have noticed about most of the Indian IT people I've seen is that they are really good at "by the book" problems where there is a well documented way of doing something.
Give them a set of detailed instructions to follow, and they generally do fairly well. However, when you gave something non-standard, not completely spelled out, or innovative to them, they had no real idea how to do it. This is just personal experience, though, and YMMV.
That never ceases to amaze me. I've been an admin and have had to work around the constraints of a windows only shop (when a lot of network tools on *nix that aren't on windows would have helped), but I had to abide by the "windows only" standard.
Now, as a dev, I routinely have to listen to customers and write up requirements from what they say they need, their environment, etc.
If I pulled the "I don't care what you want, I'm doing X" routine, nobody would ever hire me again.
Waiting until the next fiscal year is a nice cover. Yes, it would make some of the paperwork involved in making the changes a bit easier.
Chances are, however, that they are hoping that by April things will have blown over and they can go back to buisness as usual. People tend to have very short memories for things which do not impact them directly (and for a lot of things that do).
Not true at all. A lot of the time, lawyers get paid no matter what. They only get paid when you do if that is part of the contract you have with them.
demolitions even. Have to love multitasking. heh
Wait a minute...
Setting off a nuke is only a $500 fine? Time to take my old hobby of blowing up stuff to another level? heh (Hey, I come by it honestly. My great grandfather was a demotions man for the railroads and taught me the joy of things that go *boom* when I was a wee, evil, impressionable lad)
Not that I would ever likely *want* to set off a nuclear device. I have this thing against glowing in the dark. =]
The code of honor and general feeling of brotherhood in the CS program at the university I went to was frightening. It was literally the only place I know of on campus where you could leave things all day and know that nobody would bother them. Someone might look throught a book for an answer if it was sitting on the desk, but it would be there when you got back. Worst case, someone might move the chair your stuff was in so they could use the Sun.
It also wasn't unusual to see us crash on the (extremely comfy) couches in the halls for an hour or so or even to crash on someone's couch if you didn't live on campus and had a long night.
Where did I go? Ohio University in Athens, a school generally known for it's "party" nature (but also with a good CS program, one of the best journalism programs in the nation, and a few other well known programs).
Okay, at least I wasn't the only one to read the word "goto" and had to supress a shudder.
The last time I did that was because I was bored and reqworked a program I wrote a few weeks before, so I wrote it using as much spagetti logic as I could. After that, I never wanted to look at gotos again. (Like I said, I was bored and the weather sucked.)
I happen to be in southern Ohio and I am neither a redneck nor a Bush supporter.
I do, however, agree that Ohio tends to be split on the issues, but it's divided into more than just two sections. The lake region tends to be more liberal, Appalacia tends to be really conservative, central Ohio is usually fairly moderate though it does occasionally swing toward one end or the other of the spectrum, and Cinci is just plain weird at times (This is the town that Jerry Springer was mayor of, after all. They even arrested a little old lady for obstruction because she went around feeding expired parking meters so people wouldn't get tickets.).
In Korean Slashdot, only Soviet Russia jokes are allowed.
The only valid forms of humor are MS bashing, Sun and BSD are dead, geeks not getting girls, and Russian jokes a la Yakov.
who knew?
Congrats on the marriage. I wish you the best.
I don't know about that. I've known a couple of geek girls that were also models. Was seeing one of them for several years.
Of course, YMMV
Book-wise one of the favoites at the forge I spend time in is "The Art of Blacksmithing."
Very good book with a broad spectrum look at smithing.
It will take quite a while before you have the skill to start working on blades. You start out with simple things like hooks, tools, etc.
The simple things teach you hammer control, curves, and let you get used to learning how the metal responds. from there you increase the difficulty of the things that you make both in forms and materials.
When the grandparent said "continue your education" he/she probably meant expanding your skills in the field or taking classes toward a masters degree. Continuing education does not mean that you have to do something completely different.