Many lists have been written on what
women wish men knew, what men wish women knew and well, this list is
not that new: It is what every geek wish women knew, and sorry to disappoint, no, it not a list of the most sexy women as determined by geeks. Without further
ado:
Specs Matter
In a utopian world, we are not judged
by our looks, station in life and so on. However, Earth is preeety
far from being a utopian world, and like it or not, you are weighed
on a scale, usually 1-10. I mean, facebook is literally a result of
that. You should really not take it to hurt (I'm sic of this) that
you are described as an iBoob nano or having 256 MB RAM: Geeks, hereby
after referred to as we, are eccentric, and, Ripley's moment (believe
it or not ), there exists a geek such that the geek loves you for
you.
No geek worth his salt or sugar rush
will go for aesthetics (unless there are commensurate
returns ;) for we rather tend to
concentrate on the core architecture. Its great to be with a 10 on
the beauty scale and undefined in intelligence (js showoff) for a
short while but amazing to be with a 10 in intelligence over a
period of time. As a geek, I personally have the Mrs' and mistress'
properties all figured out.
While you can can't really do much
about looks (I keep forgetting cosmetic surgery exists in this era
and as for make-up, we got experience with photoshop remember ?), all
it takes to raise the intelligence scale is picking up a book,
reading my blog, reading my other blog, reading my other, other blog... in short, just read.
It really is an easy call between
intelligent conversation for the rest of our lives with my wife or
enjoying nyondo kurungara a la gravity defying boobs for 2 decades,
tops (pun intended). As wisely noted by Goethe, conversation is the most sublime of human experiences
Electronics and You
There was no mistake in the ordering
of the sub-title: It's the actual reflection of how indispensable to
my life but not how I feel about you; being a logical guy, I try to
keep emotions out of it. Time shall be shared fairly between gadgets
and the lady, keeping in mind fairly does not mean equally. None
shall take the time slot of the other. Just to put it in perspective:
If you are hanging off a cliff, and
all you needed was a damn to save you and I had a pocketful of damns
and you said “Honey, please give me a damn” as I was interacting
with my inanimate, silicon-based friend, I shall be tempted to say
“You know I don't give a damn”. If you did not recognize that,
you definitely are not a geek or lack a sense of humor.
Wii and me
We will always come first (except
when, you know ;) but never ever interrupt an ongoing game,
in-the-zone coding session, movie, anime... the list is endless, but
a rule of the thumb is if you call me twice and I don't respond, text
me. If I don't reply soon... enough said
Importance Vs Priority
You are the most, ok that a blatant lie right three, one of the most,
important things and person in my life. That said, one of the tenets
of surviving in the ever and rapidly changing world that is geekdom
is the ability to correctly classify something as important and/or
urgent.
If am under attack on an online game
and you want my attention, do believe from the bottom of my heart
that I didn't ignore you on purpose and that my heart had nothing to
do with it: I saw more than a thousand hours of late night gaming
about to be laid to waste and you were saying something about us
going somewhere and my subconscious classified taking defensive action
on the server as urgent and your news as important. Wait, what
was it you said about a hospital?
Waiiit, someone just sent another wave
of attackers!!!
