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Washington State LUG to Hold "Nerd Auction"
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on Wed Sep 26, 2007 04:11 PM
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elrous0 writes "As part of a PR stunt, a Washington Linux user group is holding a "Nerd Auction" and appealing to local sororities to exchange dates and makeover advice for their computer skills and homework assistance. 'The problem is that we're all still nerds. Let's face it, guys. If anyone's going to bid on us, we'll need some spicing up,' writes Washington State Linux Users Group president Ben Ford on the group's website. 'And who better to help with that than sorority girls who like nothing better than a makeover?' So far there has been no comment on how a Linux user group is going to help sorority girls with their Windows machines."
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How to help... (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't it obvious, by installing linux.
Re:How to help... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How to help... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday October 15, @02:45PM)
Re:How to help... (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday October 15, @02:45PM)
Re:How to help... (Score:4, Funny)
Someone may leave behind a rootkit and you'll need a doctor...
Btw, do you come with a spam blocker?
Re:How to help... (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday October 15, @02:45PM)
And while I don't come with a spam blocker, I do have a fairly strict spam filter. And if any spam comes in with any person information, I don't just put it in the bit bucket, but rather, I make sure that it's securely deleted.
Re:How to help... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How to help... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.wavenger.com/)
Yeah, and the superior stability of Linux means her computer will never get infected with adware, viruses, or even slow down on boot time. In fact, it'll never have any problems short of a hard drive crash, motherboard failure, or power supply failure. What good is that? You'll never get to see her again.
Re:How to help... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://fuzzbucket.tk/ | Last Journal: Sunday May 14 2006, @05:22PM)
"Your research paper DISAPPEARED?! That's awful... Two months of work, you say? I'll be right over!"
Re:How to help... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.wavenger.com/)
I just looked it up. Pretty funny. I'll quote it for anyone equally uninformed:
"What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, and that I'll stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool."
Re:How to help... (Score:5, Funny)
What good is that? You'll never get to see her again.
Like you didn't give yourself a shell account with superuser access. Come on. You'll be able to make that thing stop working at will!
That and you'll install software to remotely control her webcam anyway. You'll definitely be seeing her...
Pfft! Amateur. (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Friday March 26 2004, @02:46PM)
# echo "10 17 * * 5 root (ifconfig eth0 down ; ifconfig eth1 down ; wall "Your computer is broken, please call $NERD at $PHONE immediately")" > /etc/crontab
(I swear, it's like the mere mention of meeting a chick turns off the whole BOFH part of the brain with you people...)
Re:How to help... (Score:5, Funny)
This is the very definition of "win-win".
One good reason for windows (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?39901 | Last Journal: Tuesday August 03 2004, @11:07PM)
Re:One good reason for windows (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.nojailforpot.com/)
NOT Washington State LUG. (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.nojailforpot.com/)
Re:NOT Washington State LUG. (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/~treeves/ | Last Journal: Friday August 25 2006, @02:51PM)
Re:NOT Washington State LUG. (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.lubbockonline.net/blogs/mack/index.php)
You mean, like a sorority?
Optimistic (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Optimistic (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Optimistic (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.jameshollingshead.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday June 02 2005, @01:40AM)
I'm rather confident, and am also introspective. I also generally have no real lack of companionship when I want it.
Re:Optimistic (Score:5, Funny)
Your cat doesn't count.
Re:Optimistic (Score:5, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Re:Optimistic (Score:4, Insightful)
As I've been saying before (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Monday June 21 2004, @04:25PM)
- About half the guys in a high school or university want the top 10 super-models. Move a bit lower and about 90% of the guys want the top 10% girls. Some might eventually get realistic enough to settle for a bit less, but only grudgingly.
- About the same applies to the girls. Half the girls want the top 10 jocks. Some 90% of the girls want the top 10% most desirable guys.
Interestingly enough, according to a recent study, girls seem to be a bit more realistic as to who they can actually get. Guys will tend to aim above what they can get.
Basically anyone who says that someone can get laid anytime she wishes and by anyone she wishes because she's a girl, probably is doing the same daydreaming: thinking about those top 10 most popular girls in the whole damn college. Noone thinks of the shy, flat, nerdy girl in the back row when they make such generalization. That's her problem in a nutshell: to 90% of the guys she's just short of invisible, or little more than a piece of decor.
To put it even more bluntly, half the western culture (of both genders) is generally more about getting a status symbol than someone they actually plan to get along with. It's the same as getting, say, the sportiest BMW you can afford: it's typically not as much because you actually need something that expensive and that much of a gas guzzler, but just to show everyone that you can afford what most others can't. Same here: girlfriends and boyfriends get chosen as status symbols more than anything else.
And same as almost noone wants the lower half of the guys, if they have a choice, noone wants the lower half of the girls either. Note that I'm not talking about the butt-ugly gang of either sex. Just being _average_, already isn't much of a status symbol.
So my take of what's going to happen is basically:
1. They _will_ find a bunch of girls noone else wants, willing to give it a try. Then they'll get to go, "eeew" as they discover that they didn't get some smooth and highly desirable jock. (Who just happened to be single and limited in nerdiness to knowing how to install Windows.)
2. The guys, conversely, will drool at the thought, right until they find out who they got to meet. And that it's not the horny super-model with huge tits, that they thought they _deserve_ for being so smart and for knowing all that command line stuff. Cue the mandatory "eew" from the guys too.
Nice try, but probably no banana.
Both groups will eventually settle on something more realistic, but if we're talking university LUGs and sororities, not yet. Well, not for most of them.
(And before anyone accuses me of being sexist, note that I've talked about both genders.)
Re:As I've been saying before (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.ictsc.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday December 09 2006, @10:15PM)
Its true, I saw it in some movies.
Re:As I've been saying before (Score:4, Insightful)
- About half the guys in a high school or university want the top 10 super-models. Move a bit lower and about 90% of the guys want the top 10% girls. Some might eventually get realistic enough to settle for a bit less, but only grudgingly.
- About the same applies to the girls. Half the girls want the top 10 jocks. Some 90% of the girls want the top 10% most desirable guys.
Interestingly enough, according to a recent study, girls seem to be a bit more realistic as to who they can actually get. Guys will tend to aim above what they can get.
Do you have a source for that ? I'd be interested to read it, because - along with your conclusion - the result certainly seems arse-about-face to me.
On a related note, I also recall some study done recently (on a university campus, maybe ?), basically on how successful the "Wanna fuck" pickup line works on males vs females (obviously they werent quite that crude, but it sums up the objective). From memory, the "success rate" of males vs females was something like 20% vs 80% (ie: 80% of women received a positive answer to their attempt, only 20% of men did - certainly the difference was dramatic). Further, of the men who declined, the reason was almost always due to some form of outside restriction on their ability to say agree (spouse/significant other, unavailable at the requested time, inappropriate relationship, etc) rather than not being interested in the sex. For women, the reasons were basically reversed - most said no because they weren't interested.
Certainly, the idea that men are more selective than women goes against everything I've ever read about (and experienced, but that's anecdotal) so I'd be interested to read your source for suggesting otherwise.
Basically anyone who says that someone can get laid anytime she wishes and by anyone she wishes because she's a girl, probably is doing the same daydreaming: thinking about those top 10 most popular girls in the whole damn college. Noone thinks of the shy, flat, nerdy girl in the back row when they make such generalization. That's her problem in a nutshell: to 90% of the guys she's just short of invisible, or little more than a piece of decor.
Actually, no, I'm thinking about the ~50% of average women out there, plus the ~25% of "more desirable" women.
Re:As I've been saying before (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As I've been saying before (Score:4, Funny)
(http://myrighteye.blogspot.com/)
End nerd persecution! (Score:2, Funny)
(http://www.hae.com)
Lewis: Hi, Gilbert. I'm a nerd too. I just found that out tonight. We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us then there are of you. I know there's alumni here tonight. When you went to Adams you might've been called a spazz, or a dork, or a geek. Any of you that have ever felt stepped on, left out, picked on, put down, whether you think you're a nerd or not, why don't you just come down here and join us. Okay? Come on.
Gibert: Just join us cos uh, no-one's gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.
That's Washington State University (Score:1, Redundant)
(http://mhawk.home.gowebway.com/Lark.html | Last Journal: Wednesday January 28 2004, @02:04PM)
Protection (Score:4, Funny)
So far there has been no comment on how a Linux user group is going to help sorority girls with their Windows machines
Lots of protection.
Washington State University (Score:1)
Mustn't RTFA... (Score:3, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Thursday November 08, @06:00PM)
I thought LUG stood for... (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.rustybadger.com/)
well... (Score:1, Funny)
Hmmm! (Score:1)
Beauty and the Geek (Score:1)
(http://www.hyroi.com/ | Last Journal: Friday October 19, @04:18PM)
Who will be eliminated first? Oh, the suspense.
This is doomed to fail... (Score:1)
(http://www.texnex.net/)
Geek = Nerd? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.krgallagher.com/)
I can see a number of problems with this.
OK, I'll admit that most men have the ulterior motive of trying to get laid. Still, the tone of every report I have read is, "Look what the nerds will go through in an attempt to get laid." They are propagating a stereotype and no one seems to care.
Re:Geek = Nerd? (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Monday November 28 2005, @12:21PM)
Because they're male.
Getting a kick, etc... (Score:1)
(http://ramblings.wazzu.info/)
Re:Getting a kick, etc... (Score:4, Funny)
hah (Score:2)
fyi, sorority girls like coorslite, 2 pitchers ought to do it
Bid (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 01, @12:01PM)
Our name is stereotype (Score:5, Funny)
How much do they expect to get for these guys? (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Friday June 11 2004, @11:15AM)
And why am I asking here? Anyone posting on Slashdot already knows how to fix their own PC and most likely knows where to get nerds for free.
Nerds and Smarts (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://swisspig.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday November 07 2001, @02:50PM)
As a Linux user for well over a decade, I'm periodically tempted to drop by the local LUG, but every time I do, I find myself annoyed at the, well, nerdiness of the people there. I mean, sure, I know fourteen programming languages, I was a software engineer for a decade, and I'm working on a PhD in Computer Science (after already having studied Physics and Linguistics), but I just don't fit in to "Nerd" culture. This is because when I'm not doing something useful with Computer Science, traveling around the world, or I'm at the gym, or playing the piano, or sitting court-side at an NBA game or at any number of other social events. Your sorority girls are happy to have a smart guy who can fix their computer — but they're going to go for the ones who can function in society before they go to the fat, bespectacled, social outcasts that seem to congregate at LUGs.
-brian
Re:Nerds and Smarts (Score:5, Funny)
I also think people who join LUGs are pathetic losers who probably couldn't attract a desperate woman *or* successfully wrestle even a small bear. I'm way better than them, and I'm glad to see that there are other folks out there who are just like me (only slightly less awesome).