Geeks from venus eat geeks from mars at breakfast
Posted by gabriel - 31/01/09 at 05:01:45 pmMany of my friends (maybe, so many) are geeks, but i’ve recently noticed that they are forked in two kinds thus I found completely fair to name as “Hedonistic Geeks” and “Parnasian Geeks”. Therefore, the hedonistic ones can also be labeled as “geeks from mars”, thus makes the parnasian ones from “venus”.
The hedonistic geeks
They keep doing computing stuff every single day of their lives, but it’s kinda enough for them. The rest of the days (vacation and weekends), are free day in which they feel the social duty of keeping at least a bit away from their computers.
Most of them have videogames such as Wii and XBOX, and it works like a “more social life”, they use Macbooks, and do use softwares such as iPhoto, Safari, Quicksilver and so on. Oh… yeah, I almost forgot, they use to have an iphone too.
Putting bluntly, hedonistic geeks can define themselves as geeks or not, because they don’t always accept their geekness to everybody. They are too cool for doing programming, hacking and stuff through the free days.
The parnasian geeks
Parnasian geeks love what they do, love what they are good when doing. They do programming and hacking for work, and keep doing it at the free time for fun.
They prefer Thinkpad as macbook, EMACS or VIM instead of Coda or Textmate. They dont have videogames, because they just can’t waste their hacking time playing videogames.
Instead, they create softwares suck as linux kernel, GNOME apps, python true stuff and so on.
Parnasian geeks are romantic with their geekness, and if they decide to don’t geeking in the free time, will not be playing videogames, but looking for people to have a real social life, to dance, to make the difference. And even to look for a partner to get married and keep their specimen in this world.
To be continued …
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Cara, em que mundo você vive? Já pensou em usar mais de um SO? Desde de quando a marca do meu notebook define meu perfil profissional?
Conheço muito gente que nunca usou um linux na vida, mesmo assim é um programador muito foda.
Comentário por Jailton Lopes — 4 de fevereiro de 2009 #
I hack every weekend and have a Macbook. I can publicly assume my “geekness” and my passion for XBox at the same time
I’m missing the geeks from mercury or jupiter!
Comentário por Guilherme Chapiewski — 12 de fevereiro de 2009 #
Well, i have a Mac but i won’t switch my Emacs for anything anytime soon
Comentário por Vitor Pellegrino — 28 de fevereiro de 2009 #
Lol, yes, when I am not programming I’m thinking on a way to create my utopia. Cooking and taking care of animals, but still, computer is the only way to a perfect world, therefore I am a computer programmer. Forget everything else about Ghandi, Dalai Lama or Buddha, they are just wrong.
Comentário por Anderson Santos — 8 de junho de 2009 #