It just occurred to me that I am a geek. I was in UP last week with some orgmates eating halo-halo at lutong bahay and we had a small circle talking about stuff. Then Leslie who just started teaching at the College of Engineering, brought up Linux as a topic. Slowly the nine people around us melted away until there was just the two of us talking about computer stuff. Leslie is probably more of a geek himself, he graduated (on time) with a degree in Civil Engineering, passed the board, and is now teaching engineering science while studying for a Masters degree. He teaches fluid mechanics and stuff. And I was selling him the idea of having a yahoo group for his class and maybe having classes in cyber space. Its something I picked up from my classes at SOLAIR.
I’ve never thought of my self as a geek but I can handle my self around computers, I can hardwire a network for playing counter strike, I know what TCP/IP, FTP, and POP3 means, I love reading history books, and I actually used Windows NT 4.0. Does these things make me a geek or am I just a pretender? On the other hand I’m no good with math and I hate coding. In any case I wouldn’t really mind either way…
I also just realized how much effort I actually put into this blog. I could have just simply stayed with Blurty or gotten a livejournal account (like everybody else) but that wouldn’t be cool… Rain, the blog boss, mafia head, and landlord (were paying him to host our blogs) engineered this whole thing. First, my blog (the same with Jay’s and Sonny’s) is a blogger account but its hosted in Rain’s domain. Pride would of course preclude the idea of having my blog as raincontreras.com/user so we had to get our own domain names from .TK and mask the host name with our own domain names. Then there was the avatars and pictures. Jay had to painstakingly teach me how to setup an account at tripod.lycos.co.uk in order to host my pics, which can then be linked to my blog. Then theres Blogrolling for the links. Whew!!! All this effort, and for what… Hey, who knows maybe civil war will erupt and I can be famous like Salam Pax of the famous “Where is Raed” blog, but that’s to far fetched. Me being famous, is far fetched not civil war, not with all the crap going in Congress right now.
I was reading Where is Raed, Salam Pax’s blog. Salam Pax is the famous Baghdad Blogger who gave the world an in the scene point of view of what happened in Iraq before and after the invasion. It’s really funny and insightful. It’s a breath of fresh air after all the teen, angst filled, rants that I’ve come across. Not that it’s all shit out there, there are actually some that are well written and interesting to read. Now if only I had their wit and talent.
I’ve never thought of my self as a geek but I can handle my self around computers, I can hardwire a network for playing counter strike, I know what TCP/IP, FTP, and POP3 means, I love reading history books, and I actually used Windows NT 4.0. Does these things make me a geek or am I just a pretender? On the other hand I’m no good with math and I hate coding. In any case I wouldn’t really mind either way…
I also just realized how much effort I actually put into this blog. I could have just simply stayed with Blurty or gotten a livejournal account (like everybody else) but that wouldn’t be cool… Rain, the blog boss, mafia head, and landlord (were paying him to host our blogs) engineered this whole thing. First, my blog (the same with Jay’s and Sonny’s) is a blogger account but its hosted in Rain’s domain. Pride would of course preclude the idea of having my blog as raincontreras.com/user so we had to get our own domain names from .TK and mask the host name with our own domain names. Then there was the avatars and pictures. Jay had to painstakingly teach me how to setup an account at tripod.lycos.co.uk in order to host my pics, which can then be linked to my blog. Then theres Blogrolling for the links. Whew!!! All this effort, and for what… Hey, who knows maybe civil war will erupt and I can be famous like Salam Pax of the famous “Where is Raed” blog, but that’s to far fetched. Me being famous, is far fetched not civil war, not with all the crap going in Congress right now.
I was reading Where is Raed, Salam Pax’s blog. Salam Pax is the famous Baghdad Blogger who gave the world an in the scene point of view of what happened in Iraq before and after the invasion. It’s really funny and insightful. It’s a breath of fresh air after all the teen, angst filled, rants that I’ve come across. Not that it’s all shit out there, there are actually some that are well written and interesting to read. Now if only I had their wit and talent.
you are a geek. confirmed. hehe
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