why geeks make good lovers

No response, Feb 16, 2010

One of the Universal Truths that lie just beyond the fabric of modern society is the axiom that geeks, along with nerds and other peoples who overinvest in intelligence but boast underdeveloped social skills, make the best lovers. Once people realize this, the sexual revolution that will sweep through western culture will make the seventies look like the fifties, and I’m not talking about wider pants. The reasons why geeks are unparalleled as lovers are simple and many:

Geeks don’t sleep around. Geeks, through their higher IQ and therefore greater understanding of the tragedy of human condition, know that the dice only seem to have more sides on the other side of the table. Hence, they instinctively stay loyal to their lovers through thick and thin. Their social skills are also not well developed enough to support an affair, and frankly, geeks generally aren’t quite sure how they ended up with the lover they have attracted. When you date a geek, you know the geek will be yours until you are done.

Geeks are good at the things they try. When’s the last time you met a geek who didn’t have some secret skill just simmering below the surface of a simple-seeming life, honed in the wee hours of the night? It could be hacking, playing video games, or the ability to insert and remove those stupid computer power plug things from drives without cursing or breaking a finger. Let sex become their new favorite late-night hobby, and you know that a geek won’t quit until he or she has learned how to hack into your brainstem through specific genitalia interfacing in parallel with general dermal and oral bonding.

Geeks are not interested in status. Geeks became geeks because they chose to spend their time doing things that would not necessarily make them popular with everyone else in school, like sports and fashion. The ability to resist peer pressure is important to a geek. This means that a geek is more interested in their or your happiness than looking good to others, which will come in handy when either (a) you need attention, in any sort ranging from the nurturing to the lascivious, and also, because both of those things are not necessarily unorthagonal dimensions, any combination of the two, or (b) you need to be rescued because it is the climax of a teen 80’s movie. Or both.

Geeks haven’t formed bad habits. After years of serially dating lots of other women, many socially successful guys have become too confident to be intimate, think of women only for sex, and don’t have any intention of letting what in their minds is “just another girlfriend” enjoy the last spring roll. Let us not even pry into the diabolical, dark, twisted, and depraved mind of the girl who has serially dated many men. None of this is true of the geek, however. The lack of past romantic partners allows the geek to approach lovers with the zest of the neophyte. Geeks are not full of romantic confidence; however, once coaxed from their emotional holes like tame bunnies, they are eager to please and enjoy their newfound relationship.

Geeks can concentrate. Geeks can focus their energy on one task with the intensity of a hunting cheetah. Granted, the task they are focusing on may have more to do with hunting orcs with a +1 Sword of Piercing rather than hunting gazelles with claws, but the fact remains that a geek, once set upon a task and given Mountain Dew, becomes a tireless slave to their goal. Put a six-pack of Dew on the bedside table and a geek between the sheets, and you have found yourself one relentless lover. When’s the last time all night actually meant all night? When’s the last time you were with someone who, if they needed more of the night, knew how to get it?

Geeks have excellent finger dexterity. Geeks roll dice. Geeks play video games. Geeks flip pages in books. Geeks type a lot, and use characters like ~ and ^ and | that no one else has any use for. Geeks use calculators in postfix notation. As a result, a geek knows how to use his or her fingers to greatest possible effect. Whether you have a button that needs pushing or a joystick that needs joy, a geek is the person for the job.

Geeks have imagination. Once you have found your amazing lover, you wouldn’t want things to become boring. That is where geeks prove their real worth. Replayability is important to the value-conscious video-game playing geek, and this translates to relationships as well. Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has created a Quake 3 mod? Wouldn’t you want to date someone who has written steamy Everquest fan fiction involving elven incest? Wouldn’t you want to date someone who wished they were Morpheus rather than someone who wished they were Barry Bonds?

There are plenty of other reasons why geeks are the best lovers around, but don’t just take my word for it. Find the nearest sexy geek and coax that person into asking you out, even if you have to do so using instant messanger. Remember: the only non-sexy geek is a single geek.

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aaaaa, I”m a single geek :(
but you can still send your cv in ;-)
I got this via @miente

chemnitzer linux tage

3 responses, Jan 20, 2010

chemnitzer linux tage

As a Fedora Ambassador I go to conferences sometimes.. Today, I decided to go to Chemnitzer Linux-Tage on 13 and 14 March.

Because going from Ghent to Chemnitzer is difficult by public transpot, I decided to go by car. I will be staying in the Mercure hotel together with the other fedora people (and possible other linux people?).

But maybe you are going to, and you need a lift? If you live (or you can come to) a place near my route, maybe we can ride together? I still have 2 seats left.

just let me know if you’re interested ;-)

cheers,
Bert

ps: it would be cool if you also had a drivers licence, because it’s a long drive..

fosdem 2010: are you still a student, or a teacher?

No response, Jan 12, 2010

hi,

as you might know, I’m a fedora ambassador (and much more).. one of the things we are currently doing is trying to get FOSS software into colleges (and other schools) by the Fedora Campus Ambassadors program!

So, I figured we had to eat once after all, why can’t we get together (students and teachers that want to see more software in their school, or teachers who want to learn more about the idea). Together we can discuss how to do this, and take our newly formed plans back to our schools.

I created some doodles for the people who want to attend this session:
* the date
* the food

I hope to see you there!

[edit]
and oh! leave a reply, or send me an e-mail (biertie at fedoraproject dot org), so we can stay in touch :-)

in search for an artist for LOAD!

6 responses, Dec 14, 2009

We are searching for some graphical talents that want to show off with a nice logo!
We had a meeting today about the FOSS event for system administrators, and we came up wit the name ‘LOAD’, or: Linux Open Administration Days.

anyway, we need a logo now.. So, if you’re an expert, and you want to have eternal respect from us, create a logo!

You can send the logo to biertie at fedoraproject dot org. the deadline is 28december. I hope you guys can come up with something nice!

* if you win this competition, we want the svg file too.

new FOSS event in belgium: step 1

1 response, Dec 10, 2009

hi!

I wanted to inform everybody about what we are going to do now, in order to get the event started.

As this is still just an idea, there is still allot of
planning ahead!

things we still have to decide on:
* the name
* the date and time
* the place where it will be held.
* everything else :-)

But I think those were the 3 most important ones that we should decide
on as quickly as possible. That is why I want to have a meeting. I think
for a first meeting, IRC would do fine, were we can talk about these
things, and maybe decide on a real live meeting if we think that would
be necessary.

This meeting will take place on #ugov.be , a channel on freenode.net .
We expect everybody on Monday 14december, 22h on the channel to discuss these first topics.

FUDcon day 1

No response, Dec 06, 2009

Fudcon takes place at the senecca college, in Toronto. What a modern an beautiful college it is! so, yesterday was barcamp day. I think there were about 200people attending this FUDcon, so that was very nice. We started off with pitching the talks. I pitched 3 talks:
* How to install Fedora (slides)
* How to add and remove software in Fedora
* How to join our community (together with Yaakov)

My first presentation was a real presentation, just let openoffice do the work :-) there were about 25people attending, so I was happy about that!
My second talk was about how to use packagekit, but also how to install xchat, go to #fedora.. I was really happy the people started asking questions, that way I could give tips they really care about. My third talk was again different, there were only 7people, and most of them were already enrolled. But I heard Iwan was even less fortunate, nobody showed up on how Fedora community works.

In the evening we went to the Dave and Busters.. it’s a bar, but what a difference with the bars I’m used in Belgium, so huge! I like the Belgian bars more ;-) Anyhow, we played some eight-ball and had some food and drinks, so that was nice.. When I went back to the hotel around 11pm, I moved the hospitality room in the hotel, to hack on some things.

I went to sleep around 2am, and now I’m still a bit tired, while I’m writing this blog post ;-)

fudcon day 0

No response, Dec 06, 2009

Like most of you probably know, I leaved yesterday for Toronto, Canada to meet some Fedora friends at fudcon.

I waked up around 8am, way to late to be comfortable off course, but things luckily worked out right. After I had a fast breakfast, My father brought me to the train station, were I met some classmates. There I discovered not everybody knew about my plans… I think that guy lives in the past or something ;-) . when I arrived in Brussels South railway station, I had to search the check-in for Air France.. that wasn’t fun, but I managed to find it right in time.. I got my tickets for the Thalys, and my boarding pass for the plane. I was happy about my place in the plane, it is the place I chose the day before.. (I just love to sit next to the window). My ride on the Thalys was quite awesome.. First class, electricity, a free drink, … . Yep, it was quite nice. When I arrived in Paris, Charles de Gaulles, I searched my right gate immediately, luckily it wasn’t difficult to follow the signs ;-)

We were brought to the plane (an airbus 340-300) with a bus.. /me doesn’t like that! but ok, the plane was nice… but I was a bit disappointed I had no electricity :-( I was sitting next to the window (whoop whoop, clouds are so cool!). off course, there was also one person sitting next to me, an older woman, but she was kind of fun.. So, my flight was pretty enjoyable, with video, music, food, drinks, …

When I arrived in Toronto, I had to go to immigration (but I don’t know why), and after some question about what I was doing in Toronto, she noticed that you can find a lot about me in the interwebs.. oh wow, who would have thought that? ;-) When I finally got out the airport, some other fedorians were already waiting on me. how awesome is that? We went with a taxi to the hotel… well, with 2 taxis, because we couldn’t fit 7people in one..

after meeting with the Fedorians already in the Hotel, we went to the ‘Irish pub’.. A lot of pub, almost no Irish ;-)   We had dinner there, and my first impression about Canada is: the food is awful :( but I hope I’ll survive anyway… Off course there was also traditional Irish music like ‘I like big buts’ :D

I went to bed around 1am local time, so I was about 23h awake in total, and I wasn’t really Jetlagged..

a new FOSS event in Belgium?

9 responses, Dec 02, 2009

Today I heard Vincent ranting about FOSDEM. As a system administrator he couldn’t find any cool rooms that fits his interests.

So I had an idea: if there isn’t any event in belgium that promotes open source tools for sys admin, why not create one? Vincent and Kris were enthusiastic about it, but I think we need more people.

We are still in concept-mode, so we don’t know yet where or when it will take place (although we know that it will be in Belgium ;-) ). We also want to make it FOSDEM style, but of course we don’t expect 1000people ;-)

so if you want to join us, please leave a reply on this blog post, or send an e-mail to: biertie   _AT_   fedoraproject   _DOT_   org.

Fedora 12 release event: how was it?

4 responses, Nov 29, 2009

Yesterday we had the first Fedora event in Belgium. Reason to hold one was the release of Fedora 12.

the event took place in  a Don Bosco school, in Antwerp (Wilrijk), and I want to thank them once again for making this possible!

We had something between 20 and 25 people attending.. that was nice, although I expected some more people.. We had food (chips, cheese, bread), and drinks at the place, to make the event somewhat more enjoyable.

after my talk Bart got the idea of forming a ‘getting-to-know-each-other’ circle, I think that in this way we got some people interested in joining the fedora community.

As a last ‘surprise’, Martin showed up, and the crowd was really interested in his talk about OLPC.. Luckily for us, he brought some olpc’s, and he let us play with them :-)

thanks to all people who attended the event, and let’s hope we can make a strong Belgian Fedora Community out of it!

* you can find my presentation here

Get to know a Fedora Ambassador or User

No response, Nov 06, 2009

boink boink boink boink boink

Name: Bert “bret” Desmet
IRC nickname: biertie
IRC channels: #fedora, #fedora-ambassadors, #fedora-social, #fedora-nl, #fedora-devel on freenode; #cfk, #ict on Quakenet
Location: Ghent, Belgium

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