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"since geeks in general are seen as the crème de la crème of society". Strange statement, my impression is that geeks don't receive at all enough credits. Every average legal or doctor is a super star compared to a geek at least in Italy. It is also embarrassing for a society to put on the TV screen everybody but not the guy that created software that really is running the internet. Linux and Git are huge.
"Tove pissed off Warren Beatty by asking his name not just once, but twice" is the funniest thing I've read in quite a while.
This post put a big stupid grin on my face, just imagining him walking around, and nobody knowing who he is. Him being far more influential and more important than most people in the room, and yet having trouble explaining what he does. It sounds like a family reunion trying to remember people names and telling everyone you make web sites for a living.
Though it's getting easier to explain what he does--Android phones are everywhere these days.
This post put a big stupid grin on my face, just imagining him walking around, and nobody knowing who he is. Him being far more influential and more important than most people in the room, and yet having trouble explaining what he does. It sounds like a family reunion trying to remember people names and telling everyone you make web sites for a living.
Related - my wife and I cracked up last night that the special effects engineers were relegated to a 30 second montage with Marisa Tomei so as not to ruin the rest of the show for the beautiful people :)
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Please. I agree that our celebrity-focused culture is idiotic, and Linus has accomplished more than most of us ever hope to, but calling actors "idiots" is insulting. Most of them work hard just like we do (some harder), and are quite good at their job. After all, are you not entertained?
Remember, it's cool to affect a proud lack of knowledge in many areas ("football, what's that?") but to not know about famous people or things in computing is simply a sin.
If the person saying "oh football what's that?" hasn't actually done anything really impressive then what are they doing if too busy to notice pop culture? Just living in a cave and staring at the shadows?!
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Reminds me of when a fanatical Mariners fan friend of mine came across Alex Rodriguez and another player. She promptly went running up to the pair and exclaimed "Oh my God!! Dan Wilson!!!!!"
I'm surprised she didn't spit on A-Rod.
"Hi, I'm Linus" "Nice to meet you Linus. What do you do?" "I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal" "Really?" "People know me." "Well I'm very happy for you." "I'm very important. The internet runs off my software and my apartment smells of rich mahogany."