What kind of Geek?

Last night, I had the chance to go visit some old friends who have moved to town, we gathered over at the Rock Bottom Brewery in Ballston for their $1 draft nights. Now if you'd suggested that these events were a little popular, you'd be absolutely right, the place was packed with the 20-something single crowd. I was sorely underdressed, but I really didn't care. I was wearing flip-flops, shorts and my geek workshirt, holding a pint of the Spout Run Porter. I was keeping a eye out for my friends, when this guy stopped me and said "Hey Geek."

I turned to see who it was, a man about my height but with a slighter build and a badly receeding hairline in a trendy shirt and some pants that hadn't ever seen the concept of a wrinkle. He looked at me and said something about also being a geek. He mentioned LDAP. "Ah. What kind of LDAP stuff are you working on?" I asked.

"Oh, just some queries on an X400 server. Simple Stuff"

Why yes. Except it's X.500. And Queries aren't any good unless you're putting them to work WITH something. It's a Library Database, you have to be looking FOR something with a specific need, not just paging through the card catalog at random.

I smiled, told him far more about Open Directory than his little head could deal with.

I really hate posers.

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Comments:

Seriously, if he was dressed in that manner he had larger issues than just being a geek poser. Yikes.

Posted by Amy on May 27, 2004 — 12:34 PM

Hey, at least he wasn't claiming to be a baseball geek. 'Cause you woulda seriously stomped on his sorry ass...

Posted by Bill Coughlan on May 28, 2004 — 9:35 AM