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May. 5th, 2009 08:41 am
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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).

Date: 2009-05-04 11:08 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ex_bel786
I preface my requests with "sudo" when I really want my husband to do something without argument.

LMAO. I am going to have to use that one! :D

Date: 2009-05-05 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] delladea
I preface my requests with "sudo" when I really want my husband to do something without argument.

I wish I could use that with my husband, anything Linux he is determined not to understand, hahaha. :)

Date: 2009-05-05 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] worldstosee
I get that more from other women than from men.

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.

Date: 2009-05-05 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] worldstosee
I think some of it is a milder version of the human tendency to fear what we don't understand. They don't get science fiction (or it intimidates them because they think it requires smarts that they don't have) so they mock it and act as though it isn't worth trying to understand.

Date: 2009-05-05 11:25 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] worldstosee
Which is really unfortunate because they're only furthering the stereotypes by being so intimidated. What they're not taking into consideration is that there are other ways and other things to be smart about.

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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