--- Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:37 PM Wednesday 5/21/2008, Wayne Eddy wrote:
>
> >I would have thought that attending a Science Fiction convention
> (How Jon
> >found out about the list) would be greater proof of geek status than
> being
> >able to figure out an unfamiliar user interface.
>
>
> You are correct, although again I was thinking more about the
> willingness (or perhaps compulsion?) to experiment with it when such
> experimentation isn't currently needed and to be anxious to
> experiment with it when it is new and unfamiliar as traits more
> common in geeks than in the mundane majority whose VCR and microwave
> have been continuously flashing "12:00" ever since they brought them
> home and first plugged them in sometime in the last millennium . . .
>
>
> . . . ronn! :)
in the mundane world i can hold my own, but i am nowhere near to
keeping up with sf fandom. my best qualification for geek status is i
read hi tech, cutting edge, near future, hard sf, and alt history,
voraciously. also, a lot of geeks have myopia, so i definitely
qualify in that respect, but i am HWP, so i fail at that criteria, and
in cyberspace...
jon
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