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Jim Chaney

A dialogue in which a real geek learns about the New York Pseudo Geekarati

  • syrix: WTF
  • syrix: this world is going to crap
  • syrix: i dont get this
  • syrix: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/16-08/howto_allison
  • syrix: i dont even know who Julia Allison is
  • Jim: oh dude dont you read my tumblr
  • Jim: shes the prototypical fameball
  • syrix: *flameball?
  • Jim: no fameball
  • Jim: sigh, you dont hang out on the cool side of the internet do you?
  • syrix: no, im at the other lunch table
  • syrix: i actually had to look that one up
  • Jim: look its people spamming blogs and talking about esoteric new york bullshit
  • Jim: and their like lightyears behind the tech curve but they love to don the mantle of geeks
  • syrix: wow, i had no idea it was so trendy
  • Jim: kind of like rich suburban polo players who wear urban wear and drive range rovers with rims
  • syrix: oh now those guys piss me off
  • Jim: you should be pissed
  • syrix: why?
  • syrix: i have an audi?
  • Jim: while the real geeks sit in slashdot forums, the people getting real media attention are fake attractive geeks, it really sucks
  • syrix: ahh men to that
  • syrix: i bet those other fake geeks dont even know what an RS-232 booster chip is for
  • syrix: freeking lamers
  • Jim: no they dont
  • Jim: and that is why the must be killed
  • Jim: afk burger run