You Are Viewing Geekery

So, I’ve always considered myself a complete and total geek. A nerd girl. I mean, it’s in the name, right?

Until today.

I’d been going through serious, serious withdrawal thanks to Sympatico Unplugged (my Internet provider) who don’t believe in a) providing the service I pay for, and b) actually answering their technical support phone lines. I spent the better part of a week and a half on hold (minimum four hours a night), only to find out that when I finally got through to a live person, having survived the violence-inducing hold music, the department I needed to get through to had already closed for the night. (funny that they always seemed to close *just* before I got through.) Of course, since they deprived me of almost half a month’s worth of service, I’m going to be depriving them of almost half their fee this month. See how they like it.

So, internet-withdrawal plus a last-minute offer to geek out for two days (and wireless access!), had me attending the Free Software and Open Source Symposium. I totally didn’t know what to expect from this… and I confess I spent most of yesterday feeling a little like Charlie Brown listening to any adult (wah-wah-wah-wah… )… but I realized that I am so not a geek. I’m geek lite. Semi-geek. I’m quasi-geek. I’m the margarine of geek. I’m the Diet Coke of geek. Just one calorie, not geek enough. (tho, I think the fact that I just quoted Austin Powers may make me a little more geek than I think. )
These guys? (and I say guys, cuz I was definitely in the minority gender-wise *grin*) They were hard-core. They threw around sayings like “dogfooding your access” (yeah, it was explained to me and I *still* don’t get it.) and.. you know, I was trying to remember other sayings, but so much of it went over my head, I can’t even tell you other things to prove my point. But Derek, who’s one of the instructors in the class where I TA has a great sum up of the two days, complete with some non-geek-friendly words.

Today went a lot better. The lectures I went to were things I could relate to (like a new javascript toolkit called dojo, which has some supercool features and how to build and participate in a strong community successfully.) And in all, I’m glad I went.

But I’m still nowhere near as nerdy as I thought I was.

Your Superpower Should Be Manipulating Electricity

You’re highly reactive, energetic, and super charged. If the occasion calls for it, you can go from 0 to 60 in a split second. But you don’t harness your energy unless you truly need to. And because of this, people are often surprised by what you are capable of.Why you would be a good superhero: You have the stamina to fight enemies for days Your biggest problem as a superhero: As with your normal life, people would continue to underestimate you

What Should Your Superpower Be?

I get the same answer. I think the universe is trying to tell me something…

Find out your Harry Potter personality at LiquidGeneration!

So, for months I’ve been planning my complete and total media blackout for the weekend of July 21. My preordered Harry Potter should be on its way and I’ll be sitting on my front stairs waiting for it ’til it gets here.

Then, I’m gonna read. And read. And read.

The TV will not go on ’til I’m done. Neither will the computer, the radio, or pretty much any other type of media source that could possibly spoil the ending for me. I will not go near a Chapters so that some random idiot can yell out a car window who dies at the end of the book. I will *NOT* be spoiled.

Turns out? I’m not the only one. In a way? That’s kinda scary…

Amidst the writing, I’ve also watched this about eight times already today…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtTHi1gBBak]

I’ve already re-read the first six books, and I’m planning a complete and total media blackout when my already preordered book 7 arrives on my doorstep. (and if anyone spoils the ending for me, you *will* face my wrath… ), but now I can’t wait to see this… So cool. When’s it gonna be July?