…or so it seems.
Today I met with cK to talk about the John-von-Neumann-paper I’m going to write. During a conference I heard an audio feature for which cK had done the research. Since they quoted something I had read before but only from third sources, I asked about the material ( an obituary by the Life-Magazin from 1957 ). I found that she was also going to write a paper about JvN and thus we met to discuss how we could avoid writing the same thing or wether we would write a joint paper. We decided to go for the latter option which suits me very well since I don’t like to work alone but find it difficult to socialize with most of the people at my institute. p feels the same way (about working alone) and mentioned that she thinks herself lucky that not some ‘geeky programmer’ asked her about JvN but a person one can work with. So, there. [ Just for the record: We're both studying computer science =) ]
Later that day I helped a guy from work with some of his pC problems. Mainly the usual Xp hassle which I showed him workarounds for since he didn’t want to do a reinstall. I kept things as simple and as comprehensible as possible and tried to explain everything to him, for which he was grateful. ’tis not the geeky way either…
Tomorrow I’ll get a crate of wine as payment. BTW: This guy is organising a really cool project: He plans to recover 3 planes ( Lockheed p-38 “Lighning” ) which got lost in Greenland and are buried under approx. 100 metres of compressed snow.
Before I got to work I called A which from now on will be known as Squee*. Since months I urge her, to at least have a look at some martial arts training, cause I always thought she might like it and she too had told me that she wants to ‘do something’. Somehow I always expected she would join me to one of my Karate-lessons, but she told me she would be to embarassed to try something totally new in front of me. So next Monday she’s going with a friend to his Kung-Fu-training. If she picks it up Wednesday will be the only day where none of us is training. Doing sports and having a girlfriend who does sports too is also not very geeky…
Conclusion: Also I thought I would become one, I seem to be far away from being a geek.
* Another one. Soon they’ll all be assimilated…
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