A meditative rose

Finally, a play about my life … go see.

I feel so important.

Why does it happen that I get a brainwave and a 76% R² at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon. Then I get all excited and want to keep working longer …
Oh my god … I’m not just a geek, I’m a closet workaholic!!!

Maybe my boss has a secret deal with the brainwave Gods to keep me working late …

But, I am excited

Brilliant

Went with a bunch of friends to see Annie Hall in Grant Park … while everyone liked the movie and thought it was funny (I think), noone seemed to relate to it and love it like I do - to think it was real life, only funnier… do I know too many neurotic New Yorkers (or almost-New Yorkers), who love intellecual masturbation and can’t handle relationships??

Note: Anhedonia was the working title of the film, and means a clinical condition where you don’t get joy from normaly pleasurable events. Wonder what it’s called when someone doesn’t see the value in joy…

Just thought you’d all want to know (hey .. you’re reading this, right …) that this post is being typed on a brand new, guaranteed not to be obsolete for another two months, ultra-light, ultra-bright, in short - ultra-cool laptop. Needless to say, am beaucoup excited - now I know what a new parent must feel like … checking progress to see exactly when it’ll be delivered, rushing home when the time finally came, expectantly watching it emerge from its cocoon (ok - pulling it out of a cardboard box), going through a time-consuming, gut-wrenching set-up to make it worth something - not knowing whether it’s going to be temperamental and make your efforts go to waste, and finally watching with pride as it boots up and lets you go online …

Though I’m still not convinced being able to surf sitting on the couch is worth the money put down on this (there’s so much other stuff I don’t need at all that I could buy), I have a list of new toys that’ll make sure all the other laptops think it’s cool enough to play with … for now. And since it doesn’t look like I’m ever going to register for a kid or a marriage, thought I’d use this addition to my family as an excuse to solicit early birthday gifts:
- Airport Express - because it’s just so cool. If I have the ability to print wirelessly, maybe I’ll start printing after all
- Stereo - because I need to have something to connect the Airport to, apart from the printer I’ll never use
- Backpack to carry my laptop - necessity to go with my active lifestyle - how else do I carry this from the couch to the bed??
- Optical mouse and other such stuff - Don’t really know what they do, but am told these are ‘notebook essentials’, so will take Dell’s word for it

Yayy

So several readers seem to think that my putting up my geek code unequivocally confirms that I am a true-blue geek. Why would you think that … just because I saw all the Star Wars movies in one night (without falling asleep), and I’d rather talk in equations than sentences, and I insist on sending emails in bullet points??? No no - that just means I’m efficient (btw, that’s also the reason I speak fast … now you know).

So in the spirit of efficiency, I’m clearly not a geek because:

- First and foremost, I do not own any polyester pants. Or for that matter, any article of clothing made of polyester … which is quite an accomplishment, given the size of my wardrobe
- I do not know what a pocket protector is.
- I am extremely proud of the fact that I added the geek code through tweaking actual html script. If I were a true geek, I wouldn’t be proud of it, I would take it for granted. Also, it would be beneath me to google to figure out how to tweak script - so I’d rather leverage existing knowledge than create new knowledge for it’s own sake. Which reminds me, if anyone knows how to add an image to this blog, pls to let me know. I shall be eternally grateful. Or maybe buy you a Star Wars t-shirt. In polyester.
- I’d buy a mac because it looks cool, not because it has a more sophisticated OS … or something like that I’ve heard geeks say
- I can fake social skills … sometimes … ok ok … occasionally.
- I can see the value in faking social skills … sometimes … ok … rarely

Hmm … so I ran out of reasons pretty quick … but it is 4 am - so I’m excused. Some people may suggest I’m just not a computer geek, but am a business/excel/powerpoint geek (with surprisingly good taste in clothes) …. but hey, it’s not like I’ve discussed valuation models on a date. Or discussed cool excel spreadsheets as part of pillow talk … oh, wait ….

PS: As you can see, I have now managed to add the image. Now if only I knew how to shrink it …
PPS: As you can now see, I managed that as well … now if only I could change the time zone
PPPS: So what do we need geeks for again?

Can you imagine being in a place surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people with food, sweet food in their hands, and not being able to get any because the stupid coupon booth closed half an hour early and the stalls don’t take cash!!! Why on earth is it socially acceptable to bum smokes off a complete stranger, but not food (or at least food coupons)? Why does potential death from lung cancer form a stronger fraternity than potential death from high cholesterol? I think if eating unhealthy was made as much of a social taboo as smoking, it might help (you’re ordering steak? Go sit in the corner … no, THAT corner - way over there). I think if this kind of bonding happened, it would be great for me - I could meet someone who loves food, is asocial because noone talks to him, has time on his hands so might just read, and then once we get together, we eliminate both of our high-risk genes … perfect!!