darryl: geek?

not geek

geek

Volunteers at film festivals. Loves old black-and-white photo booths. Sometimes misses his Ngin-Ngin. Spaceballs? Ew. Has never seen an entire Python movie.6 (Thanks, Josh from Israel.) Lost at Scrabble again. (Sorry, Grace.) Babylon 5? Puh-leeze. Red Dwarf? Ungh. Orson Scott Who? (Thanks, Grace.) Doesn't own a Nintendo or Playstation, and isn't really that big into games at all. Don't have the hand-eye coordination, nor the patience, anymore. [Unless they're from Berkeley Systems.] Worries that this list is way too short. (A real geek wouldn't care, right? :-) 5Learned more about physics from The Physics of Star Trek than from any class he ever took. (Then again, he never took physics.) Is too old to be snowboarding in Tahoe, isn't he? His old web pages have plenty of broken links. (Thanks to Nathan Burke for pointing this out!) Gets out once in a while. (Of course that was Aug. 22, _1996_, but hey, i've got tickets to see 'em again on Oct. 30, _1998_. Yay.) Went to see some art. Thinks the Internet can be useful. Went houseboating on Lake Shasta and didn't bring his laptop, or digital camera.4 Loves South Park, but has no links to it other than a picture of his new Cartman bank from Ben and Mary. Thanks! Doesn't have any silly attachment to dim-lit workareas that some geeks claim help them work better or longer. (And i guess that means i'm not a goth either.)3 Hates Babylon 5. (See geek code.) Really doesn't care much for anime. (Although Akira was ok.) Hates Fry's. Drives Miata. Hiked Half Dome. Ran the Bay to Breakers. Is particular about correct spelling and word usage, as well as grammar and punctuation.2 Has cat. Was on MTV. Snowboards in Tahoe.

Is one of those people that scans in old photos of himself. Had a grandma that sent e-mail. 6Loved A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures, and used to listen to Python bits on Dr. Demento. Writes web pages on airplanes, on his Palm Pilot. Got no game. Is typing this from an airport phone booth. Ungh. Has a page for music he's listening to. At least hopes to make a little money off of it. Probably has a very unhappy mail carrier. Hates when his name is misspelled. Thinks even the silliest ski stuff should have a web page. Put hidden messages on this website via a cheesey CGI trick, and nobody ever saw them. Or cared. [Oh well, i gave big hints to m and she finally found them. Look at part of her ghetto prize.] {Where are the messages? Look up. And reload.} Has a complete collection (yes, including the elusive 1.1 issue) of Wired Magazines, except he's misplaced the 5.08 issue with the very nice article about Linux. Does anybody out there know where it is? (i don't wanna spend money to get a back issue.) Downloaded Jack-O-Lantern and Halloween screen savers for Windows and Macintosh so that he could turn his monitors around and point them out the window on Halloween. (This one is so geeky, it's embarrassing.) Worries that people looking for Daryl Watkins might make a typo or spelling error and end up here. Owns and loves The Physics of Star Trek. Knows major points of the transporter chapter by heart.5 Is saddened by some broken links. And is happy that other classic links are still around. Really should be in bed by now. Wears shirts that he gets free from the web. Has a pretty dorky dad. (That's him at the Intel booth at Seybold.) Saw Woz at HORDE, and geekier still, got him to "autograph" his Pilot. (Actually Calvin got it, as he was sitting closer.) Edited this web page from the HORDE festival. (Yahoo had a booth.) 4His friends did. (Geek by association?) There were 3 laptops and one digital camera. Pictures to come. 3Is often too lazy to find the central light switches or replace light bulbs, so ends up working in the dark anyways. Enjoys Hong Kong movies. (Which i'll elaborate on later.) Recently updated his bookmarks file, and now obsessively keeps it up-to-date across 4-5 different machines. Doesn't mind Star Trek. (See geek code.) Likes to sleep late, like Wendy. Hates Fry's. Has web page. Has own domain. Uses vi. 2Doesn't capitalize his i's. Contributed to Wired. Decorates cubes. Has family pictures on website. Plays ultimate frisbee. In a league. Designed a disc for the league. Lost design contest. Figured out his geek code. Ungeeked it. Has meta geek code: gc Wrote a FAQ on PPC upgrades for the PB 500 series. Used to post on Usenet. Still does. (Google has restored Deja's old archive! Woohoo!) Has home network: Finally upgraded his Linux server to RedHat 5.1 (Manhattan), and a somewhat current (2.0.35) kernel (stable version) on a new Pentium 120 w/64MB of RAM and some new SCSI hard drives. Woohoo. Serving a couple of Windows 95 boxes via Samba. And serving a couple of Macs via Linux Netatalk But i still think Apple is run by idiots. Found out that OJ was: GUILTY! Blabbed about it to Suck. Was late to Alex's barbecue because got caught up futzing with this page. >:-P Wrote a script just so this page would look nice when viewed with lynx. Has cell phone. Has PalmPilot. Writes to minor celebrities, and sometimes gets responses.

Yeah, i know, the cat's named Linux -- my ex-girlfriend named him that. You're right, my snowboard link points to the rec.skiing FAQ, the web version of which i maintain, and there's also those Tahoe pages that i obsess over too. So what? Like it says, i'm a geek. Oh, and just so you know, i didn't put a period after my meta geek code because i didn't want people to think that it contained a dot.