geekery by osmosis

petdance on 2003-04-25T16:30:29

Last weekend, Amy's cousin brought her boyfriend to Easter dinner. Turns out that he's a Perl guy who's done stuff on various sourceforge projects. We chatted about geekery and that was it.

So last night, we were at Amy's mom's house, and the conversation went something like this:

Glo, Amy's mom: What were you talking to Brian about? Computer something?
Me: Yeah, he's a Perl programmer, too
Glo: A what?
Amy: Perl, it's a programming language he uses. I don't understand either.
Me: Come on, you know some stuff! Who wrote Perl?
Amy: Randal?
Me: No.
Amy: Damian?
Me: No. Ok, maybe it hasn't rubbed off yet... But at least you knew the names!

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Heh - who wrote Perl...

merlyn on 2003-04-25T16:35:02

I've written "Perl", but I've not written "perl" {grin}.

Echo That

chaoticset on 2003-04-25T19:25:33

I've noticed the same thing with Laura -- she has a rough concept of who Damian, Larry, Randal, gnat, and tchrist are. (Partly because I'm so hard to shut up, I suspect. :) )

Reabena knows who some of them are too, but she's actually a geek, so I'm not sure that it counts...

It's all about the community

jdavidb on 2003-04-25T20:10:13

Me: No. Ok, maybe it hasn't rubbed off yet... But at least you knew the names!

Ah, she knows the truly important part, then.

Ummm

jbodoni on 2003-04-27T00:42:12

If her boyfriend's a geek, then she's probably a geek by injection...

John