Thursday, March 17

One more thing about that interview

There's another quote that struck me that I thought I'd put up here on my blog:

geeks are able to memorise almost any trivial fact, apart from the trivia of their own lives.

So, the trick is, tell a nearby geek the trivia of your life, and they'll remember it better than you do. And vice-versa.

Ha! That sounds so silly, but so true. My wife is a remember-everything type of person, and I'm *always* asking her what we have planned for the weekend. If it weren't for her (and my Palm Tungsten T2, which I've been using a lot more lately), I wouldn't have any clue what was going on in my own life.

Posted by augmentedfourth at 1:07 PM

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The Geek Code desperately needs updating, but in any case here's mine (as of 2010-02-28):

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GIT/MU d+(-) s:+>: a C++> ULXB++++$ L+++ M++ w--() !O !V P+ E---
W+++ N o++ K? PS PE++ Y+ PGP t !5 X- R- tv+@ b++ DI++++ D--- e*++
h--- r+++ y+++ G+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

If you really care about knowing what that all means, you either know the code already, or you can get it decoded for you here.