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Main Forums => Anarchy => Topic started by: HeavyJay on January 24, 2004, 06:07:15 PM
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Does all your time spent on with computers ever push into real life? That's been happening to me a lot in the past few weeks.
I look in the bottom right-hand corner of a book expecting to see the time, try to copy and paste numbers into my telephone, etc.
Just the other day my dad tried to wake me up from a nap to eat dinner. I told him, in my half-asleep dazed state, "Maybe I'll eat it later. Did you save it in the Favorites list?". Does anything like the above ever happen to you?
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Yes, especially with phones. I can also barely write with a pen now because i type so much. And there isnt a backspace key.
I have also found myself writing LOL, and so forth in everything now. I have caught myself saying it too. Then again, I get confused when I am running Linux on my machine and it doesnt crash every 15 minutes.
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Agreed re: not being able to write properly because I type so much.
Other than that, pronouncing Canada as "Canadia" is the only thing that spills into real life. I think.
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Other than that, pronouncing Canada as "Canadia" is the only thing that spills into real life. I think.
I'm even doing that now!
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Now Cat, you know that you have to stop yourself from saying wesbite instead of website. Well at least I do.
Damn that thed.
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I just can't talk anymore. I write and type fine, but when it comes to talking, such as pronouns, man! Typing on the computer is so much easier than using a pen and paper simply because there is the backspace key, you can add things at will where ever you want to, and you can make multiple copies with little or no hassle.
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Now Cat, you know that you have to stop yourself from saying wesbite instead of website. Well at least I do.
Damn that thed.
Crap. I've done that a couple times too.
I want a scroll button for when I'm reading books.
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I can't tell you how many times I've said "pwned" or "LOL"....
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"pwned", "1337", and "heh" ought to be in every self-respecting geek's vocabulary! :D
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I often find myself wanting to click "undo". But there's no button for that in real life.
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Sometimes I try to ctrl+f for different things in my school textbooks...
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last night my bf and I were going to bed, but before he did he had to go get or do something out side the room. he said "brb". no lie....
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I wish my text books came with a Ctrl + F feature. I wouldn't mind going to school if they had them. Alright, maybe I would still mind. Now, if there was some sort of block or ban feature in school... now you're talking.
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LOL when I was in school at my desk I use to put my hands on the desks in typing position and type what I was thinking or hearing.
I also use to think "LOL" when I laughed, I almost said it a few times. No wait, I still do that.
A shot a monitor with a shotgun out of frustration. Does that count?
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I wante to spice up my sexlife so I said "My O/S needs rebooting". No one got it. Probably because it doesn't make sense.
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I wante to spice up my sexlife so I said "My O/S needs rebooting". No one got it. Probably because it doesn't make sense.
Huh? Sounds like you need more coffee this morning.
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"pwned", "1337", and "heh" ought to be in every self-respecting geek's vocabulary! :D
Exactly! They start appearing in your day to day speech, you start having recurring nightmares of Nam, people think you're crazy, and you get locked in a small 8x8 padded cell for the remainder of your days.
Aahh...luxury...
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Huh? Sounds like you need more coffee this morning.
I doubt coffee will be strong enough to save me from the delusions that contribute to my daily dose of deliberate, thus inconsequential, madness.
You see, I have this feeling of oh... I don't know what, and I want to let myself drift away in these thoughts that will one day lead me to my inevitable demise.
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Hey, not my cup of tea, but knock yourself out.
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Knock yourself out.
You're just saying that so I render myself unconsious for the day. Nice try.
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Hahahaha....actually, I hadn't thought of it that way.
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Putting a smile on your face has brighten my day. I don't feel so incoherent anymore. I wonder how long it will last.
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I wante to spice up my sexlife so I said "My O/S needs rebooting". No one got it. Probably because it doesn't make sense.
You talk to your hand whilst wanking?
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"Y halo thar buttsecks!!!"
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Painful Painful Buttsecks, fun for the whole family.
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I had a dream last night about adding a bunch of program calls to my /home/user/.fluxbox/init file and was getting a bunch of errors. No shit.
I've been spending so much time lately in the guts of my Linux machine at home that I have been dreaming about it a lot.
I have programming dreams pretty regularly, carryover from work, usually, since I don't code much outside of work (except for the scripting I've been working on on my Linux machine lately).
I constantly find myself thinking "CTRL-F" when looking through things like phone books, tech manuals, et cetera in real life.
On the programming thing, I'm in such a habit of compiling code as soon as I'm done with it in Visual FoxPro that I constantly catch myself trying to compile even things like Word documents and text files.
You know... since the quick compile in VFP is "ALT-P" (which opens the "program" menu) and then "M" to compile, when I get done with a Word document or something instead of clicking "save", I hit "ALT-P" and "M" and try to compile it by habit.
And I've almost given up on writing anything by hand. Pens and pencils feel awkward in my hands now.
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Christ... I just ALT-P M'ed this post instead of clicking "submit".
I need a fruiting vacation.
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If something unusual happens in my IRC channel, I dream about it that night. An old friend comes along, I get into an argument, somebody makes a really good point....doesn't matter what. It ends up in my dreams. Where's old Dr Freud when you need him?
How many Sigmund Freud's does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Two. One to screw it in, and one to hold the penis. I mean, ladder! Shit, what did I say?
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I find i have to correct my school work alot, for mistakes such as ppl, b4... etc... And, i sometimes say "stfu" or "lol" instead of normal words. It scares my parents, but they dont know what it means. So i can tell them to shut the fuck up without them getting mad. :D
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I find i have to correct my school work alot, for mistakes such as ppl, b4... etc...
I don't think it's something new. It's been going on for a long time, as seen here (http://www.freshangles.com/realtime/education/articles/43.html). Some teachers are getting worried that it's going to be the end of the English language. I guess pretty soon they are going to be suspending students for writing "lol" on any paper handed in, or for saying any computer-realted term in school that isn't approved by Microsoft. "PHP" is out of thw question, "ASP" is fine, however.
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My dad's a geek too, so I can safely tell my mother to "STFU" if I so please. He knows she usually did something to deserve it :D
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I find i have to correct my school work alot, for mistakes such as ppl, b4... etc...
I don't think it's something new. It's been going on for a long time, as seen here (http://www.freshangles.com/realtime/education/articles/43.html). Some teachers are getting worried that it's going to be the end of the English language. I guess pretty soon they are going to be suspending students for writing "lol" on any paper handed in, or for saying any computer-realted term in school that isn't approved by Microsoft. "PHP" is out of thw question, "ASP" is fine, however.
Likewise, .NET and C# are permissible, but mentioning anything about Perl or Linux is an expulsionary offense.
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Just last night when about ready to close an IM window, I almost typed in "exit" to close it. I stopped myself midway before I could hit enter and thought to myself, "What the hell are you doing?!"
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That's okay.
I've been spending so much time in vi at home on my Linux machine lately, that when I'm at work sometimes and I'm editing a client log in notepad I find myself typing SHIFT-zz to save and exit the file I'm in...
When I'm not attempting to compile it, that is. :P
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Come to think of it, I have a good one:
At school, it's common practice to logoff the computer that you were using after your class. I have two computer courses everyday. All of that logging off must have gotten stuck in my head or something because a few weeks ago I got into the habbit of logging off of my computer at home before I left in the morning.
I would come home, turner on my monitor and wonder what the hell happened. It couldn't have been a power failure, I have a UPS and the other computers are still one. I caught myself one morning and realized what the hell was going on.
It was just weird to come home and think, "Goddamnit! Who was messing with my computer while I was gone?!"
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Yesterday my Lit teacher assigned us work on page 1337 in our textbook and I started laughing like a retard....nobody else got it. :(
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That's a pretty big book if it has that many pages. Maybe if it was "6969" they would have all started laughing. Something tells me they wouldn't like carrying those books around too much if they were that large.
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They are pretty big, but not THAT big (thankfully). I think my teacher would bitchslap anybody who laughed at a page 6969.