tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282752.post113700726986731366..comments2023-07-10T00:22:11.785-07:00Comments on Yossarian Lives: Mirror mirror on the wall....Veenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06064708986711901612noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282752.post-1137577186951686132006-01-18T01:39:00.000-08:002006-01-18T01:39:00.000-08:00why am I the only one here who doesn't get what th...why am I the only one here who doesn't get what the whole post was about but still finds it funny enough.<BR/><BR/>[1] So funny in fact, i chrtled and choked on my own laughter<BR/>[2] colleagues here, though used to my manic laughter, suddenly look at me with fear and morbid curiosity. My laughter rocks.Ravages/CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16652864017812270505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282752.post-1137483440776150342006-01-16T23:37:00.000-08:002006-01-16T23:37:00.000-08:00> So Ludwig = transportation engineer?Gott in Himm...> So Ludwig = transportation engineer?<BR/><BR/><I>Gott in Himmel</I>!! You've <I>actually</I> gotten my M.S. specialization right, y'know?<BR/><BR/>[leaves, shaking head in disbelief]Ludwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03710107146505111876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282752.post-1137121030119879852006-01-12T18:57:00.000-08:002006-01-12T18:57:00.000-08:00BM: But you don't spend sleepless nights thinking ...BM: But you don't spend sleepless nights thinking abt why you are attracted to Feynman and Torvalds rather than lets say, Gael Garcia Bernal. Because you are indeed very much attracted to Mr Bernal! See you still have some non-geekiness left in you.<BR/><BR/>Aryton Senna? Did you say Aryton Senna? You had to think that far back kya?Veenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06064708986711901612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282752.post-1137095353909104612006-01-12T11:49:00.000-08:002006-01-12T11:49:00.000-08:00Three things.a. As an innocent soul, who is surrou...Three things.<BR/><BR/>a. As an innocent soul, who is surrounded by geeks 24x7 [1], I try my best to keep my associations in the outside world, as non-geeky, as possible. Is that too much to ask? Why do you have move to the dark side, too?<BR/> <BR/>b. Speaking of Tolkien, I think he is a pretty cool chap. But the fans, they are a breed apart. <BR/> I have colleagues who got pirated chinese versions of the LoTR on they machines approximately a month before the movie was out in the theatres. <BR/><BR/> They reread the books (yes, including -The Hobbit) a week before the whole s/w dept was taken on a group "outting" to watch the movie [2]! And we are talking of, outwardly normal looking people with a significant other, 2.5 kids, a dog and a picket fence (around their million dollar home). <BR/> <BR/> And after all this, they watched the extended versions for all three movies, back-to-back, the IMAX versions at the Metreon!<BR/><BR/>c. I have been surrounded by geeks, since I was born. Being surrounded by a thousand geeks, all day long. It has left me scarred for life. I had such a deprived childhood, I thought the coolest people in the world were cosmonauts, and a close second were architects.<BR/><BR/> Just when I was beginning to believe, I had left that all behind... you turn geeky - Et tu, Veena? Isn't it enough, that I find myself, on sleepless nights, wondering, why I am attracted to Feynman and Torvalds, rather than, Ayrton Senna. Do I need to be tortured more?<BR/><BR/> <BR/> [1] Ah! falstaffian numbered footnotes, that too, in a comment. ;) <BR/><BR/> But, I digress. <BR/><BR/> I live in the silicon valley. A place, where a conversation with X who asked you to dance, would go, <BR/> <BR/>X: "hi, what do you do?"<BR/>BM: "hmm,.. I am a programmer.."<BR/>X: "me too! application/systems?"<BR/>BM: "I write drivers..." <BR/>(did I come here for this... atleast he is a good dancer...)<BR/>X: "cool, which OS? Symbian? You know I spent the whole day debugging this problem<BR/> where this LED would never go off. Finally, I had to traced the whole thing back<BR/> to the bug in the microcode....yada yada..." <BR/><BR/>BM: (aaargh... save me, dear god...save me...wish this was Jerusalem, I could have alteast hoped for a suicide bomber...hope)<BR/> <BR/>[2] Can you believe, I work at a place, where they actually encourage such behaviour. The other movie they "took" us to, was AVP. For the non-geeky readers (which I presume, there is atleast one) - AVP stands for Alien vs. Predator...cringe.. <BR/><BR/>and veena, just so you know. I don't read /. anymore. why, you ask? That is material for a post. ;)The Black Mambahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03292928242786159625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282752.post-1137093015084099052006-01-12T11:10:00.000-08:002006-01-12T11:10:00.000-08:00Ludwig: Hmm..Ludwig knows what WAG, WDM, WAM, WAP,...Ludwig: Hmm..Ludwig knows what WAG, WDM, WAM, WAP, YDM stand for. So Ludwig = transportation engineer? Maybe. Not sure if you can make a Ludwig = Geek conclusion from that.<BR/>Not that you need to prove your geekiness around here!<BR/><BR/>Falstaff: Geek pride! Since VIBGYOR is taken what flag shall we have? You know what? Don't bother to answer that - I will be sorry I asked. :)Veenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06064708986711901612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282752.post-1137039431044859152006-01-11T20:17:00.000-08:002006-01-11T20:17:00.000-08:00Veena: Tch, tch, such denial. Be not afraid of you...Veena: Tch, tch, such denial. Be not afraid of your geekiness, but rather embrace it (in a blatant act of self-promotion, let me point you to http://2x3x7.blogspot.com/2005/07/geek-pride.html, where I address a similar attempt by a mutual friend to pretend that she's not a geek)<BR/><BR/>BM: And there isn't one language that Tolkien invented, there are several. Presumably you speak of Quenya, that noblest of tongues, language of the Deep Elves, the Noldor. Lacho calad! Drego morn!Falstaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09791162324919462038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14282752.post-1137038248483833352006-01-11T19:57:00.000-08:002006-01-11T19:57:00.000-08:00:O Ludovicious is a geek? Sachem say, "BM speak wi...:O Ludovicious is a <I>geek</I>? Sachem say, "BM speak with forked tongue." [Ludwig say to Sachem, "Well BM is a black mamba, y'know...". Sachem buries hatchet. In Ludwig's neck.] <BR/><BR/>Nevertheless, BM <I>may</I> be right. Does Veena know what each of the letters that you see on IR engines (WAG, WDM, WAM, WAP, YDM etc.) stand for? Ludwig thinks not. Yet, Ludwig does. Ludwig = Geek.<BR/><BR/>quite easily doneLudwighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03710107146505111876noreply@blogger.com