On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 19:56, Vikki Roemer wrote: > 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. Why are you attending youth group meetings? > "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* It's not sufficiently cool to know things like that. Hence, they don't know. When (if) they grow up and coolness loses its relevance, they'll grow more knowledgeable in that area, at least to the degree of knowing what an ISP is. > > 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. Amen. I'm glad at least some members of your gender have some degree of sanity. :P > > > 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 So that's what it is... In those days, most of the abuse directed toward me was verbal. Probably because physical attacks generally failed. ;) I was still quite shy, though. Verbal abuse is much harder to defend against, and almost as effective. I had no idea that that was the cause of the apparently antisocial feminine behavior was. Thank you for enlightening me. > 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? Those are the 3 types of _normal_ 15-year-old guys. Every once in a while, one of them will mature at some ridiculous rate and have 15-year-old behavior at age 9 or something. Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 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 y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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