Geek at Play

No wammies!

Did you know that there was a Press Your Luck scandal? I didn’t until recently. The story is at first interesting, but then incredibly sad. The guy figured out the game, but couldn’t get a bit of luck going in his real life afterward.

Legally yours

In our modern litigious world, it is sometimes hard to know where the lines lie. Fortuntately, every once in a while someone will step in and help out the laypeople of the world with some plain-English guidance. Take it for what it is worth, but the EFF put out a legal guide for bloggers which I think is pretty cool. I’m only a few degrees of separation from people who have gotten sued or fired because of their personal blogs. This seems like a new, interesting realm of law.

Geeks make better lovers

There is of course quite a little buzz in the nerd/geek world over the article in the NY Daily News claiming that nerds are better lovers than their pretty boy counterparts. There is a considerable amount wrong with the article, but we do have to assume it was written by a guy who was popular with the ladies in high school and thus doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. That can be forgiven.

I do feel the need (as did my buddy Jeff) to point out that there is a difference between a nerd and a geek. I’m a geek. I’m not a nerd. I get a little too excited by computers: I can go on for days about them and spend too much time with them. But I take breaks to talk to humans, go to the gym, and run through the shower periodically.

Nobody wants to hook up with an un-groomed, un-showered, socially inept nerd. But all the ladies want to get with geeks now. Oh what a cross to bear!