(or: Behind enemy lines - the nerdreich)
It's a rainy day in Oslo and they're building the new institute for informaticks just beside the old one, where we linger and those of us who are new to this lifestyle sit and curse at a computer with the full knowledge of drudgery that is in our immediate future to learn languages we don't even want to learn or grasp. Then a sweeping silence hit the room, every nerd or nerdette slouches their shoulders and look more intensely at their screens, bubbles of sweat forming on their foreheads alttabing away from 4chan and hentai dumpsites over to more respectable sites reporting on britney spears, the mother of two children who has been spotted on several occasions without underwear.
It's in the paperversion aswell and as I read it while eating a b??rek with spinach, canned mushrooms and peppers and there's an interview with an old lady, 68 years old and it covers two full pages with a picture of her holding a britney spears cd over a trashcan and she says she has been betrayed, she put her trust in britney and she says, she says "It's like a knife stabbed from the back into my kidneys and then twisted around".
Universitas, the brilliant student driven paper reports that the "board of directors" (sorry, don't have a dictionary handy) has decided that from the autumn of 2007, bachelor degrees where the traditional population has been 90% of one sex shall be reduced to 50% of each sex and the goal will be 60/40 as a min/max regarding everything offered at the university of oslo.
On a side note, suicideattempts by psychology students have dropped with 30% after they no longer have the right to get a student appartment above 2nd floor.
She seems almost as bewildered as those that sit around, when she asks the one I've always been annoyed over because his voice is loud and droning and everything that comes out of it revolves around the last time he was in the swedish woods LARPing and his new found obsession with BDSM (BDSM is the new LARP in nerdland btw) but now he's silent and when she asks if it that computer is free, he almost wets himself because in this room, she appears as an angel filled of the holiest light of life. She sits down, calmly, and there are so many sexual fantasies that are being churned through all the heads in the room and someone writes a program in lisp about it, someone takes a sneakshot with their phonecam and posts it on their myspace under the heading ZOMG.
When I was a young'un I read hackerlore from cdc about how the nerds eventually would cause a revolution and take over the world, because in the new world, information would be power and the malcontents would always be malcontents and assimilation into 'the man system' would not occurr. I believe the cdc at that time believed literally what they read in their scifi books and they acted like a friend of mine did after taking acid he said "I've seen the world end and I spoke to god and it was myself". They had seen the future and the future was flat and 2d.
As many has said before me, there will be no revolution. There will be no fat fuckups standing on the barricades with mountain dew coloured teeth shouting about information INFORMATION INFORMATION because bill hicks was so very right in two things, one where his scope should have been extended, namely the rednecks down south crying "evolution evolution evolution" and the perfect sentence "Adolf hitler had the right idea, he was just an underachiever, kill them all, kill them all adolf".
It seems I was deceived when I was a child and didn't think about it untill I was confronted with reality.
The nerd, the classic nerd, the neonerd are the perfect examples of new and improved robots. To put it in an easily understandable conspiracy setting, THEY created NERDS so they could have people that didnt REBEL(or rather, rebelled within controlled and confined areas).
But that's far from it. Nerds are people who have a fetishistic interest in one definitive area. Nerds are the end of 1984, the blue and depressing end, I betrayed you, you betrayed me underneath the sycamore (ispell) tree.
She's still sitting there and she's taken off her sweater due to the fact that computers generate lots of heat when clustered together in a room without aircondition and due to the fact that the room is almost full and everyone is drooling.
What happened to britney spears? Suiciding psych students? the revolution?
The revolution is here, now, in this room but noone will ever understand it. The unpleasantness is to touch and feel, the silence is deafening and the mix of fear for contact and the sensation of that last grand adventure is sitting here, in this room, now. Everyone touching the air is now a potential buddha, everyone is transcended, everyone has been illuminated and if anyone ripped their thoughts away from denied pussy, they might see it.
god-DAMN I'm glad you're back.
:mittens:
:thanks:
And hot damn it's good to be back. This will be a grand new adventure when I get the hang of it and seeing as I've got a year of bottled up rants, expect much much more.
Now I'm gonna get drunk and see if I can find that chick.
:mittens:
whats a LARP?
For the love of all that's holy, stay ignorant of this piece of information.
Quote from: LMNO on November 29, 2006, 05:47:04 PM
For the love of all that's holy, stay ignorant of this piece of information.
unfortunately i found it on the web
have absolutly 0 experience with role playing (unless its on video games)
pretty ignorant of the whole pen and paper stuff, as well as the live action
"WOOOOOOO!!! I'm a VAMPYRE! For REAL! WOOOOOOOO!"
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Quote from: LMNO on November 29, 2006, 06:12:49 PM
"WOOOOOOO!!! I'm a VAMPYRE! For REAL! WOOOOOOOO!"
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LARP=House for grownups.
But at least when kids play House, they don't really know any better...
Quote from: LMNO on November 29, 2006, 07:21:12 PM
But at least when kids play House, they don't really know any better...
And you are saying that most adults are not delusional or crazy or warped in the head?
No, but they do it to themselves.
The keys are there, but they decide not to use them. Or even look for them.
Quote from: LMNO on November 29, 2006, 07:41:39 PM
No, but they do it to themselves.
The keys are there, but they decide not to use them. Or even look for them.
http://www.exavior.com/cosplay/index.php?view=sierra2.jpg
You know, after viewing that, I've come to agree with you more that adults should know better.
Aaaaagh! Mine eyes!
(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/5005/housemdpromofq4.th.jpg) (http://img63.imageshack.us/my.php?image=housemdpromofq4.jpg)
I like playing House. I get to adopt an American accent and receive large sums of money for being unspeakably rude.
Quote from: LMNO on November 29, 2006, 07:55:53 PM
Aaaaagh! Mine eyes!
http://www.exavior.com/cosplay/index.php?view=18ota_166.jpg
Don't look.
(But I know you are going to anyways.)
I just want to know who thought any of this would be a good idea.
the description of that terminal room with one girl in it is SO familiar .. :)
though you can't really blame em for looking, already after working a few days 9-17 in such a 99% male environment, anything that's got breasts and a female figure is going to draw my attention as well, whether i'm frustrated or not.
anyway you're right about the nerds and the revolution, it aint happening. at least, not like that. but from your writing i gather a feeling of "it used to be better", is that so? cause i don't really think so.
sure there are probably more nerds, as computers become more accessible and Computer Science is becoming a bigger study direction (hey it exists only since about 60 years or so). but there are still hackers and they still are (have to be!) outside-the-box thinkers.
it's a bit like that law of stupidity (http://www.gandalf.it/stupid/stupid.htm), the percentage of stupid people/sheep/cabbages is always the same, no matter how you cut up your population (that this is a statistical impossibility is of course the sad, sad cynical point) and this number is always higher than you expect.
Quote from: LMNO on November 30, 2006, 12:56:18 PM
I just want to know who thought any of this would be a good idea.
Obviously the cosplayers and the grownups who still play house (this time with whips and chains).
Quote from: triple zero on November 30, 2006, 02:49:07 PM
the description of that terminal room with one girl in it is SO familiar .. :)
though you can't really blame em for looking, already after working a few days 9-17 in such a 99% male environment, anything that's got breasts and a female figure is going to draw my attention as well, whether i'm frustrated or not.
anyway you're right about the nerds and the revolution, it aint happening. at least, not like that. but from your writing i gather a feeling of "it used to be better", is that so? cause i don't really think so.
sure there are probably more nerds, as computers become more accessible and Computer Science is becoming a bigger study direction (hey it exists only since about 60 years or so). but there are still hackers and they still are (have to be!) outside-the-box thinkers.
it's a bit like that law of stupidity (http://www.gandalf.it/stupid/stupid.htm), the percentage of stupid people/sheep/cabbages is always the same, no matter how you cut up your population (that this is a statistical impossibility is of course the sad, sad cynical point) and this number is always higher than you expect.
I'm not really pointing any fingers at anyone here, I'm just describing this as I see it and there is no more point to this than what the individual person sees and reads. I'm strictly observing this new enviroment and it's been quite some time since I was a fan of revolutions like this. Images and metaphors.
that's okay, i was just making discussion, you know partly agreeing and disagreeing, you know, the usual. but if you just want to write a piece for read-only, that's fine as well.
it was a good read, for sure.
Quote from: triple zero on November 30, 2006, 03:56:43 PM
it was a good read, for sure.
ya
I kind of like the one sepia posted today slightly better... thats just personal taste
:-)
Quote from: triple zero on November 30, 2006, 03:56:43 PM
that's okay, i was just making discussion, you know partly agreeing and disagreeing, you know, the usual. but if you just want to write a piece for read-only, that's fine as well.
it was a good read, for sure.
:mrgreen:
No text is really read-only so my post was a bit.. off or inaccurate. These are just pure streams of consciousness with no editing or work other than the typing and they haven't really been tuned. Need to rip more from authors so I'll know how to explain this in the future. And I'm definitively a part of the crowd sitting there.
feckit, i dunno, thanks for kind words.
:lol: That's what came to my mind, too, OB.
Wow, there's a bit of a generation gap for me in that one, but I get your meaning nonetheless. (I'm 33, but I was never a technerd in ANY sense of the meaning)
I hope you find that "chick." :D