Being a nerd
When I was a kid I decided at some point I wanted to be a nerd. Granted, I was probably already a nerd:
-Got left behind on field trip because I was engrossed in an Animorphs book
-In 5th grade was shunned by rest of girls in my class
-In 9th grade went shopping for new clothes. Next day at school received comment from second violinist: "You finally look normal"
But when I specifically wanted to be a nerd about was technology and computers. So I started reading MacAddict, which I found hilarious despite the fact that most jokes went over my head and most articles discussed things I knew nothing about. In middle school my nerd-counterpart was this kid Erik Krasney (some of you know him, I think). I think I might have gotten into web design because he had some website he made. Erik and I fought our own little front of the Operating System Wars, with me defending the Mac side and him defending the PC side.
That didn't result in actually making me tech-savvy, and so a bunch of years passed by and sometime near the end of middle school I learned some elementary coding, mainly in C++ and in that shitty terrible language on my calculator. That led to last year when I got into Linux and into a computer science-centric workplace, and while I feel pretty hardcore at times there are (hundreds of) miles to go.
I think that's why people like me enjoy throwing around big tech words. I'm surrounded by people who aren't fazed by them at all, and at the same time, I can't forget how cool it sounded when I used to be totally confused by technobabble. So I find outlets like twitter and facebook and write things like, 'ssh tunneling! woo! with x11 forwarding!' when it means practically nothing, and nobody who gets it should care.
So now I have to get back to reading about the java compiler (javac) options and figuring out how to put the output file in a specific destination.
-Got left behind on field trip because I was engrossed in an Animorphs book
-In 5th grade was shunned by rest of girls in my class
-In 9th grade went shopping for new clothes. Next day at school received comment from second violinist: "You finally look normal"
But when I specifically wanted to be a nerd about was technology and computers. So I started reading MacAddict, which I found hilarious despite the fact that most jokes went over my head and most articles discussed things I knew nothing about. In middle school my nerd-counterpart was this kid Erik Krasney (some of you know him, I think). I think I might have gotten into web design because he had some website he made. Erik and I fought our own little front of the Operating System Wars, with me defending the Mac side and him defending the PC side.
That didn't result in actually making me tech-savvy, and so a bunch of years passed by and sometime near the end of middle school I learned some elementary coding, mainly in C++ and in that shitty terrible language on my calculator. That led to last year when I got into Linux and into a computer science-centric workplace, and while I feel pretty hardcore at times there are (hundreds of) miles to go.
I think that's why people like me enjoy throwing around big tech words. I'm surrounded by people who aren't fazed by them at all, and at the same time, I can't forget how cool it sounded when I used to be totally confused by technobabble. So I find outlets like twitter and facebook and write things like, 'ssh tunneling! woo! with x11 forwarding!' when it means practically nothing, and nobody who gets it should care.
So now I have to get back to reading about the java compiler (javac) options and figuring out how to put the output file in a specific destination.