I like things that are technological in nature. I currently own 3 computers and enough parts in various drawers and boxes to make at least 2 more.
I make video games for a living. Not shitty video games that no one ever plays, but some of the best games in the industry. I'm not ruffling my former-GE-owned-NBC-now-owned-by-Comcast-corporate-we-fucked-over-Conan feathers, it's just the reality of the studio that I work for. We're a geeky, nerdy organization; It's pretty cool.
I stream movies and TV shows that I have ripped to my hard disks (from DVDs I own...maybe one or two 'borrowed' from Netflix), which are setup in a Raid 1 array and send the data off site every few months, thus protecting them from the earthquake that will eventually turn my condo into beach front property.
My cat has a chip in the scruff of her neck, which has all of my personal information, including name, address, toothpaste preference, favorite kama sutra position, and my last will and testament all embedded on it (By the way - Irvine Animal Shelter - did you really need anything past my name, address, and phone number?).
I have owned cell phones since they were "an emergency device only" and currently use Google Voice as my administrative assistant. I can use my cell phone to remotely control my home theatre.
I love Star Trek. I have more than one friend I can sit with and quote episodes and episode titles ad naseum. I can name nearly all of the actors of all of the series that weren't the piece of crap that was Enterprise.
I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm ok with it. In legal terms - I'd be described as an expert geeko-nerd-witness
I'm also trying to be less judgemental in my life, more accepting of the general douchebaggery that you see walking down the street or in a coffee shop. Oh - you didn't signal before you turned left from the far right lane? No problem. I lived. Well now - you're in the grocery checkout line and you are paying with cash and coins? No worries! I can read about Angelina's most recent international adoption. Wait! You're driving the wrong way down a one way street? That's ok! I have the Geico Gecko on my dashboard.
Trying.
It's hard to be non-judgemental when you see someone at a conference, in the bathroom, or simply just hanging out reading the paper talking to NO-ONE wearing an earbud.
If your life is that exciting that you need to be on the phone at a moments notice, ergo requiring you to have an earbud hotglued to your cranium, you're doing it wrong. Also - you look ridiculous, not cool and certainly not nerdy or geeky.
Get an admin. Learn2email. Perhaps, maybe, perhaps you could just let a phone call go to voicemail. The earth rotates at nearly 1700 km/h (~1050 mph for my US friends) and orbits the sun around 100,000 km/h. That's fast. It makes any phone call you take while walking to Starbucks look like a snail high fiving a buddy snail recorded by a high speed camera.
What's that metaphor mean? You're slow. Not in a short bus way, although many people should probably be confined to that well engineered machine. It's just perspective. There's no need for you to be rushing to get to that next call or meeting, you're already moving fast enough as it is and wearing an earbud when it's just you only makes you look like a douche.
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Unless you are Mr. Spock or Lt. Uhura. Then the earbud is freaking awesome and totally ok.
