Comments | matt_arnold: Geekspeak

matt_arnold

Geekspeak

Oct 06, 2006 14:27

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. ( Read more... )

lojban, relationships

Comments 5

overthesun October 6 2006, 19:56:28 UTC

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 ( ... )

matt_arnold October 6 2006, 19:58:56 UTC

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

matt_arnold October 6 2006, 20:01:08 UTC

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 October 6 2006, 20:05:26 UTC

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.

An addition. rlpowell October 6 2006, 20:01:42 UTC

A particular issue we discussed was a change Matt wanted to make to the home page of lojban.org (which I run). I told him that my first response to the change was dumbstruck horror. He suggested reasons I might have been horrified, but they all had to do with people. I hadn't thought about people at all. My thoughts weren't things like "Will this get people to the site? What kind of people?" but instead were "Will this make the computer unhappy?". To put it another, "Is this a grotesque hack?". The answer in this case was clearly "yes", and that's enough for my geek brain, hence horror.

However, I have the (apparently very rare amongs geeks) ability to say "Yes, but he's better at PR than you. Just shut up and do what he says.", so I did. The interesting part here is only that how the change would relate to the people viewing it never crossed my mind, and this fact was a surprise to Matt.

-Robin