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Re: survival skills for teenage geeks



On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:41, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:58:16AM -0800, Jay wrote:
> > <snip>
> > ~
> > ~Agreed. People who post to debian-curiosa should be forced to socialize
> > ~with each other, if at all.
> > 
> > </snip>
> > 
> > I agree the same thing. We have too much in common to be a coincidence, it's
> > just that common souls hang out in the same places.
> > 
> 
> Oh, that's what he meant...?

Yes...

> Yeah, I figure this counts as 'socializing' if anything does.  Think
> about it-- how much good does it do me if I hang out with the kids in
> the youth group but don't really talk to them because we have nothing
> to talk about?  I know, you all have no control over the situation;
> I'm just kinda ranting a little, here.  I already tried giving my
> parents my whole 'I socialize more through email than I ever would in
> the youth group' argument, but they didn't buy it. :(  They figure
> that 'socializing by osmosis' as I call it is better than 'nothing'
> (they think email is nothing). *rolls eyes*

Socializing by email (or IRC, or anything else the Internet currently
has to offer) is missing one critical component: face-to-face
interaction. Believe it or not, that's important. Unfortunately,
socializing by osmosis is missing all critical components except for
face-to-face interaction. For that matter, it's also missing
face-to-face interaction if you aren't actually _interacting_ with
anyone.

Therefore, I agree with you.

> Anyway, I'm home on a snow day. :(  College was cancelled, so no
> OOP/Python class, no computer club-- in the club we were going to
> start on a Beowulf cluster today in the Computer Club; but, I still
> have to do high school classes. :( *sigh*  The killer is, the snow was
> only ~3 inches deep, and now it's starting to melt-- the roads have
> been dry for an hour over here by me.  But, people around here in
> nice, warm, sunny North Carolina freak out when they see 1 snowflake,
> so... 

Remember, there are a lot of kids out there who _hate_ going to school
of any kind. If you're looking for who's responsible for this, they're
the ones.

> Hope everyone else is having a better day than me.

Night, actually... Read the Date: on this email. :)

Alex.

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