2 hours in the life of a ‘puter geek

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Ever wondered just what ‘geeking out’ entails? Some nights it’s diving into whatever the geek’s code of choice is (HTML and CSS for me), other nights it’s more hardware based. Well, tonight I had a problem with my primary work Mac, and kept a log of what I was doing as I went along. Feel free to take a look if you’d like….

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Propaganda

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Propaganda, anyone? This site really got my attention after it was posted over on MetaFilter today. On the one hand, on a conceptual/artistic level, I like most of what I see (though some of the posters really are just plain bad). However, on a more intellectual level, it’s just frightening, due to the strong resemblance to WWII-era Soviet propaganda posters. I was hoping that it may have been more satirical in nature, but apparently this is a real, serious attempt…though at exactly what isn’t entirely clear from the site.

Buckets of what?

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Times I wish I had a ‘completely bizarre’ category. I can understand being peeved if I had a music video being shot outside my apartment at 4am. But did Britney Spears really deserve to have buckets of urine thrown at her (and…though I hesistate to ask…just why did these L.A. residents have buckets of urine available to throw?)?

Working for da man

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I wish I had the guts and thought I could afford to make the vow that Jonathon does here:

I vow never again to work for someone else’s riches. I am independent being, free to grow rich or die poor using my mind and the thousand bucks I’ve got in the bank. I refuse to be a slave to the shirt-and-tie drones of Ford or any other Fortune 500 company, now and forever.

I just need a little more assurance that I’ll be able to pay rent next month. Still, it’s a goal to work towards.

Geek code

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Here’s my geek code.

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GAT d+ s:-- a- C++ U*++++ P+ L- E--- W+++
N+ o K w--- O---- M++ V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5
X++ R-- tv-- b++ DI++ D+ G e h r+ y*
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Tattoos

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Found here on GreenFairy:

Is the reason I get pulled around by men when my tattoos are visible because they are shocked into defensive aggression by someone obviously not trying to meet their standards of attractiveness? After all, women are supposed to dress for men not for themselves. Nothing is worn, nothing about a woman’s body is adorned the way it is for reasons of personal aesthetics, it’s done to attract men. Everyone knows that. So when someone doesn’t do that, can it be taken as a personal insult, a provocation worthy of violence?

Blogsnob

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This is nice to know — I just signed up with BlogSnob to display little text ads (you should be able to see the ad on the right side, between “Books” and “blog rings/links”). I display links to other people’s blogs, and my link gets displayed on other people’s blogs. I just checked my stats, and since I signed up on the 7th — just four days ago — my ad has been displayed 208 times, and I’ve had 6 people visit my site from my BlogSnob ad on another site. This gives me a 2.88% click-through rate, which while it doesn’t sound very high, when ad banner click-through rates are commonly reported at somewhere around .25% or lower, it’s pretty good. I’ll be staying with these guys.

I was having some problems getting the code to validate, but just got a little help from ServMe (FriedKitten), and now everythings validating and displaying without a hitch. Woohoo!