Geekspeak

[matt_arnold]

Yesterday my friend rlpowell told me on the phone that when he sees my text messages on the Lojban IRC channel or mailing list, he imagines them spoken by a hyperactive chipmunk on meth... and suddenly my utterances cease to baffle and dismay him. He says other geeks need to meet me in order to be able to execute this audio transformation in their minds.

Comments

[overthesun]

My experience is, you don't need to go that far. You do, however, need to step away from my "internal reading voice" (which sounds kinda like that kind old man, reading to children, and pausing carefully at the comas, to give impact) and switch to a fast, enthusiastic, slightly breathless voice (Like the one someone would use to explain how cool, amazing, and otherwise mindblowing this new TV show / movie / cell phone / book is.)

I had the great advantage of meeting you in meatspace before I interacted with you online. . . and I habitually picture you, with your enthusiastic, and slightly (Insert word here, somewhere between zealot, manic, missionary, and mischevious. . . I know no such word, but it is needed here), anyway, with that look on your face, and it all makes sense.

You speak the things you see the way a marketing brochure reads. You rarely mention the pinch points, or the annoyances. You always expound on the good, and usefull, and petential. . . And YOU know (And *I* know) that the average adherant will only care about, or use, ten or twenty percent of that amazingness. . . .But you have to tell them about all of it, so they can find the piece of that amazingness that motivates them.

The rest of us habitually only talk about the thing as it pertains to us :P.

I see it as a great skill you have, and picture some day when you are hired as a salesman for a progressive, high quality, open source using, linux enabler. . . And you will use that missionary zeal to convert thousands of companies, and make that company millions of dollars.

Leash your innate enthusiasm for progressive, society altering technology, with a company living the ideals you believe in. . . And you will love your job, and they will love you.

Just my 2 drachma about the way you interact, think, speak, write.

[matt_arnold]

You will enjoy the flash animation I just linked to, from the words "hyperactive squirrel on meth".

[matt_arnold]

I meant to say, OH MY GOD you'll LOVE this it'll CHANGE your LIFE FOREVER make beauty BRIGHTER food TASTIER and smells SMELLIER!1eleventyhundred1!

heh.

[overthesun]

By the way, if I haven't mentioned this recently, you are a truly good friend to have. At very least for me. Your enthusiasm is infectious, and makes me a better me. . . And I like that in friends :P.