Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

Blogging and Geeks: Those Adorable People

I just found out something about my blogging style. I am a generalist blogger.
A blog expert, or rather someone who considers himself a blog expert, told me this after seeing my blog.

I guess this is one of those things that I am, without catching on to what I am, since recently, I have been plastered with numerous labels concerning what I am. Ouch!

Bloggers are classified according to the type of writing they do in their blogs. At least, I am not a dialectical materialist or a political blogger. This friend tells me lifestyle bloggers and personal-life-dumping bloggers are the most common. Although my blogs have to do with my life, I like to keep the personals inside a real-life note-book.

Yet, if wishes were horses… I wish I were a geek blogger, but that would be so far out for me. My traveling to Andromeda galaxy in this lifetime is more possible than my understanding any computer language, let alone doing anything with it. But I so admire geeks. I think we should erect statues for geeks and I am not kidding.

In my eyes, geeks are more powerful than mythical gods. What makes them godly is their performance. They are never show-offs or high-brows of the snobbish kind, but true-to-life doers, and their mythical feats can be neatly summarized in a pithy slogan: it's the programming, stupid.

True geeks are elegant species who inspire a sort of techno-passion in klutzes like me. When I listen into the conversations of geeks, I think I am in an alien universe where the geek language has more ups and downs than Chinese. I could learn Chinese if I tried hard enough, but as hard as I try, computerisms pass me by, and no matter how much I aspire toward technical literacy, I could at best be a user and not a very good one at that.

Although there are alpha geeks, as in alpha males, the she-geeks abound in the same arena. Their technical pursuits are not limited only to perfect programming, but these goddesses know every contraption and device before they are even invented. Seeing is believing, they know what to do when the computer makes a weird clicking sound, saying the primary hard drive is not found. They know to use the freezer to recover data and they also know to seal the hard disk in a ziplock bag to prevent condensation. Who'd have thought!

In my next lifetime, say a hundred years from now, God is going to let me get born as a geek and then, I'll be a geek blogger.

Now, who says I don't write science fiction?