Geeks talk

Excuse my IT background. :)

Was reading about geeky stuff at my friend's blog, and realized that he is re-reading Microserfs for the 3,141,592nd time.

And this passage pretty much sums up the story of his life, he claimed:

“Many geeks don’t really have a sexuality - they just have work. I think the sequence is that they get jobs at Microsoft or wherever right out of school, and they’re so excited to have this “real” job and money that they just figure that the relationships will naturally happen, but then they wake up and they’re thirty and they haven’t had sex in eight years. There are always these flings at conferences and trade shows, and everyone brags about them, but nothing seems to emerge from them and life goes back to the primary relationship: Geek and Machine.

It’s like male geeks don’t know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it’s a user interface problem. Not their fault. They’ll just wait for the next version to come out - something more ‘user friendly.’” - From Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs