On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:31:54PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:54, criggie wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:10:49 -0500 > > "Hubert Chan" <hubert@uhoreg.ca> wrote: > > > criggie> Certainly an OS/2 install could be useful, but the details > > > that criggie> geeks like us find important are definitely far too > > > esoteric criggie> for 15 y/os > > > > > Huh? *I* was about 15 yrs old when I started playing with OS/2. > > > > You're a male - getting girls interested in anything outside anime/dbz, > > $insert-boy-band-here, and chatting is enough of a task. Most (not all > > but most) haven't twigged to what a network is, even fundamentally. Yeah, I've noticed that. Every time I (accidently) say something interesting and meaningful (to me, at least) during a youth group meeting, everybody just looks at me like I'm sprouting antennae. "ISP? What's that?" Someone seriously asked me that. "Computer language? You mean you're learning how to talk to computers? How do you talk to them?" *sigh* Those quotes from the future of America... *rolls eyes* > Shopping. You forgot shopping. Yeah, really. I mean, how many pairs of brown, high-heeled sandals can you have? I'm a girl, I was 15 a couple of years ago, and I still don't understand it. > > Yes, there are exceptions, but generally the exceptions are too smart to > > take computing at high school. > > Or pay attention to males. Why do you say that? I never found that to be true. Usually we're shy-- get beaten up enough times, you'd be shy, too. Besides, there are 3 types of 15-year-old guys-- the ones who hate nerds (all nerds, that is; girls aren't let off the hook); the ones who are scared off by girls who are slightly more intelligent than average; and the guys who are also somewhat more intelligent than average, but are so shy that they can't put 2 words together when they're within 20 feet of a girl. Or at least, that was my experience; anyone else care to comment? -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." (ripped from someone's slashdot .sig) PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+>++++ L+++>++++ E>++ W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE++(+++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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