Comments on: Thoughts on being a geek http://theubergeeks.net/2007/03/05/thoughts-on-being-a-geek/ Three geeks talking about what they love. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:52:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Zach Hale http://theubergeeks.net/2007/03/05/thoughts-on-being-a-geek/#comment-232453 Zach Hale Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:56:31 +0000 http://theubergeeks.net/2007/03/05/thoughts-on-being-a-geek/#comment-232453 This has been spinning around in the back of my head lately as well as I watch my computer's fan constantly run because I've got so many applications running. My firewall is messed up somehow from some application I use and I don't know what it is. It's bad. I push software on people way too often as well. I'll go watch my girlfriend use her computer. I convinced her to try out some new browsers and now she's attached to Camino but I have to really step back and not freak out when she doesn't want to update to the latest version. It really doesn't matter that it's not the latest version so why do I push it? I'm definetly a freaky geek and I want to step back. As time goes on I find myself getting more and more productive on doing real work on my computer and it really makes me want to just wipe clean and keep a really minimal machine. I think I have a problem with not being able to do this because of my freaky geekiness as you describe. I'm just obsessed with these geeky things that don't really matter and I need to hold back. Thanks for the post. I think this may be the last straw to convince myself to wipe clean and practice better habits with myself and with other people in terms of freaky geekiness. This has been spinning around in the back of my head lately as well as I watch my computer’s fan constantly run because I’ve got so many applications running. My firewall is messed up somehow from some application I use and I don’t know what it is. It’s bad.

I push software on people way too often as well. I’ll go watch my girlfriend use her computer. I convinced her to try out some new browsers and now she’s attached to Camino but I have to really step back and not freak out when she doesn’t want to update to the latest version. It really doesn’t matter that it’s not the latest version so why do I push it? I’m definetly a freaky geek and I want to step back.

As time goes on I find myself getting more and more productive on doing real work on my computer and it really makes me want to just wipe clean and keep a really minimal machine. I think I have a problem with not being able to do this because of my freaky geekiness as you describe. I’m just obsessed with these geeky things that don’t really matter and I need to hold back.

Thanks for the post. I think this may be the last straw to convince myself to wipe clean and practice better habits with myself and with other people in terms of freaky geekiness.

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