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Hi, I'm cAt.
It's funny, I don't really think of myself as geeky. But a couple of weeks ago I installed Gentoo on a secondary hard drive just for fun. So, yanno, I guess it's relative.
I just like tinkering with things and finding out how they work. I think most of my geek stuff is computer related... I keep a Windoze partition on my desktop PC solely so I can play Sims 2 once every few months. *haha* But, you know, I'll take just about anything apart to have a look, if I think (hope) I can put it back together.
People who are afraid to open their cases to dust scare me. They're the majority, and I tend to forget that.
I want a shirt that says, "No, I will not fix your computer", but then I think it's probably redundant because people rarely ask. I assume it's because I'm female. People ask my husband to fix their computers all the time. Actually as far as stereotypes are concerned, I get that more from other women than from men.
I live in household of two adults and one toddler, and we have four computers between us - and it's still nowhere near enough.
I preface my requests with "sudo" when I really want my husband to do something without argument. (And yes, that comes from xkcd).
It's funny, I don't really think of myself as geeky. But a couple of weeks ago I installed Gentoo on a secondary hard drive just for fun. So, yanno, I guess it's relative.
I just like tinkering with things and finding out how they work. I think most of my geek stuff is computer related... I keep a Windoze partition on my desktop PC solely so I can play Sims 2 once every few months. *haha* But, you know, I'll take just about anything apart to have a look, if I think (hope) I can put it back together.
People who are afraid to open their cases to dust scare me. They're the majority, and I tend to forget that.
I want a shirt that says, "No, I will not fix your computer", but then I think it's probably redundant because people rarely ask. I assume it's because I'm female. People ask my husband to fix their computers all the time. Actually as far as stereotypes are concerned, I get that more from other women than from men.
I live in household of two adults and one toddler, and we have four computers between us - and it's still nowhere near enough.
I preface my requests with "sudo" when I really want my husband to do something without argument. (And yes, that comes from xkcd).
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Date: 2009-05-04 11:08 pm (UTC)LMAO. I am going to have to use that one! :D
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Date: 2009-05-04 11:15 pm (UTC)=)
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Date: 2009-05-05 01:29 pm (UTC)I wish I could use that with my husband, anything Linux he is determined not to understand, hahaha. :)
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Date: 2009-05-05 03:19 pm (UTC)I've had some of that - especially from women who don't get science fiction and seem to feel that it's important to tell me how silly it is.
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Date: 2009-05-05 10:16 pm (UTC)I dunno. It irritates me greatly.
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Date: 2009-05-05 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-05 11:14 pm (UTC)I tend to think it's a gender issue too, to some extent. In my experience, it seems to be fairly common that many women are okay with the idea of smart men, but smart women challenge them and make them feel inferior.
Interestingly, I've come up against this in particular in the last week. I have a friend who's a computer science lecturer and all round maths nerd, and he and I totally geek out when we're together. We were hanging out last week, with another friend of his - she is totally not geek. She finds me incredibly intimidating apparently. She doesn't find him intimidating though - and he's the one who actually has a PhD. Me, I'm just a housewife. (Though maybe, in another way, that makes it worse?)
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Date: 2009-05-05 11:25 pm (UTC)Every time my mom goes on and on about how great I am with computers and how amazing computers are I point out that she's a RN and I have no idea how to do most of the stuff she does.
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Date: 2009-05-05 11:32 pm (UTC)