Julia Thompson wrote: >Jim Sharkey wrote: >>OK, that's maybe a little out there, though I did see LotR at >>midnight and then again at 7:00 PM. And I was more just goofing >>on the silly crap that takes up perfectly good "brain harddrive" >>space that could be put to maybe more constructive use. :) > >Such as? > >I'm still trying to clear some things out of my brain that I needed >to know for my job. It's nicer to have the geek stuff taking up >space, because you don't get tired of it as quickly. :)
Oh, boy, such as? Geez, you name it. I'm not as steeped in any one section of "geek lore" as a rabid fan of one thing, but I have a huge breadth of generally useless knowledge. That is, I would get creamed by a fanatic Trekker or comic nut in a trivia contest dedicated to that one topic, but if the topics covered all manner of geek hobbies from RPGs to Babylon 5 to the X-Men I'd clean up. I just find that I have a much easier time remembering, say, the call number of the Storm Trooper that Luke stole the uniform from in SW:ANH (TK-421) than I do remembering stuff for my career like the latest government revenue procedures and their impact (OK, that one has to do with increasing the 401(a)17 limits and increasing the threshhold for Current Liability interest rates, but that's beside the point). And while it's understandable, it can be more than a little inconvenient, if you take my meaning. Jim ------------------------------------------------ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
