My point is, I expect most people I know will have encountered someone geeky enough to react to them like this at some point; the question that matters to me is whether being visibly unable to turn off the part of one's brain that does geekiness is a good thing. I have great difficulty turning off such parts of my brain, and there are people who like this a lot and people who don't.
For me (and, I'm willing to guess, for Brooke McEldoney, based on long-time reading of 9CL) it's automatically endearing. And since my social circle these days is comprised of (a.) computer geeks (I sent the link to my husband, and he emailed back wondering what Amos's conversion formula was), (b.) SF fans, (c.) LJ, (d.) English doctoral students, I've actually had the luxury of forgetting that not all people would respond like that. Gosh.
Oh, and thanks for the provenance on the tartan Cthulhu. Will have to be vigilant.
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Date: 2003-02-28 12:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-28 12:28 pm (UTC)I'm sorry. I'm honestly not sure what your point is.
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Date: 2003-02-28 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-28 12:50 pm (UTC)For me (and, I'm willing to guess, for Brooke McEldoney, based on long-time reading of 9CL) it's automatically endearing. And since my social circle these days is comprised of (a.) computer geeks (I sent the link to my husband, and he emailed back wondering what Amos's conversion formula was), (b.) SF fans, (c.) LJ, (d.) English doctoral students, I've actually had the luxury of forgetting that not all people would respond like that. Gosh.
Oh, and thanks for the provenance on the tartan Cthulhu. Will have to be vigilant.
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Date: 2003-02-28 08:32 pm (UTC)