heck. here's muh 2 paise. oh boy, isn't LIH gettin' richer by tha moment? ;>
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:50:08AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> * Geeks in the US are perceived as weirdos by many. Geeks in India are
> actually looked up to (high grades, good job etc.).
not me! I've got low grades since i started hacking away on comps. :P
>
> * A classic example is when Udhay and I met a fellow geek for a beer one
> night. Udhay, who was visiting the Bay Area for a while, is a skinny
> socially-well-adjusted person (You are welcome, Udhay). This geek we met
> was overweight, beareded (?) and mal-adjusted.
>
ok, i'm a bit overweight too... *looks at his tummy* or am i? ;)
> * Geeks tend to use SF / fantasy as an escape from reality. (I'll probably
> be boo-ed off stage for this).
>
i maybe a real weirdo, but i haven't read SF / fantasy much at all. Asimov got
me bored. any mystery's my game. its not that i dont like SF, but i find hacking
some stuff a better use of my time, than reading some shit, which may or may not
exist.
Nikhil.
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