Monday, September 8, 2008
I am not a person who read manuals or instructions, actually I am not a book person at all, all my readings are limited to blogs and online stuff. But, I admire people who read - I was blown away when I saw the title of a book "A girls guide to dating a geek" that cost $14.00. I read again, yes it is $14.00 - that's the cost of large thin crust pizza with all toppings.
A manual on dating a rockstar, actor, singer I understand but a geek. What a girl need to date a geek?
You don't have to land on their doorstep wearing a bikini - just grab a pizza, a bottle of mountain dew and some wires or just pretend that you need some cool applications in your iPhone, if not anything ask them a question 'How computers are made?'. Buy them a $15.00 annual subscription to the 'Wire' magazine and they become your slave. They are the most neglected of the breed, so if you are beside them they will treat you as demi-god.
I was sitting in Starbucks with a geek friend of mine; me sipping a cup of chai latte; him ofcourse hammering the keyboard when out of no where comes this lady - may be in her 40's, pretty much deprived in the looks department, she asked - is this the new Mac Laptop? That's all she asked. I left 20 minutes later realizing he is going to date back to the first Apple II launched in 1977, and we are in 2007. Later he said he asked the lady out for a date.
But lets not confuse them with today's geeks - they are top of the line, cutting edge machines - they can be as sophisticated as Prince Charles and as cool as Eminem; yet they carry with them the same spotlight and millions of dollars in bank accounts. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founders of Google, Mark Zuckerberg founder of FaceBook, Max Levchin founder of PayPal and Slide are stallwarts of the tech industry. They have revolutionized many different aspects of our everyday life and redefining the perception of geeks - no longer you need a suit to address the board room - its ok to make a public presentation in Jeans - its ok to still drive a $40,000 mustang when you can afford a $500,000 Ferrari.
I sincerely doubt that documents, manuals will do any good to anyone trying to date a geek. May be all you need to do is - just become a geek.
Watch this funny video on "A pseudoscience guide to geek dating".
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