{"id":4872,"date":"2012-07-20T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:52:47","slug":"geekery-personified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=4872","title":{"rendered":"Geekery Personified"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother Jeff, in the wee hours of the morning when he was inexplicably awake and therefore reading blogs, sent out this link<\/a><\/strong> to everyone in the family.\u00a0 I only just managed to read through it a few minutes ago, and while I reveled like the word-nerd that I am in the techno-speak, my appreciation of this article could never, on this or any other planet, come close to my brother’s reaction.\u00a0 I must allow you to eavesdrop on the chat we just finished, so you, too, can acknowledge and bow down before the quintessential Geek that is my broheim.<\/p>\n

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Jeff<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
can you imagine me reading this story last night<\/div>\n
the smile on my face getting gradually bigger and bigger with each passing paragraph.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4:11 PM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jeff<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
certain sentences prompting, almost involuntarily, this little YES<\/em><\/strong>-fist-pump<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4:12 PM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jeff<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
when I think about being involved in a project like that, it seems to me like those guys have the best<\/strong> job in the entire<\/strong> world<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4:14 PM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jeff<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
what other job could you get paid to do the most painstaking research, reconstruction – and it goes without saying that all this data they recovered had to go into a big DATABASE somewhere (goosebumps anyone?)<\/div>\n
about a topic that is so arcane as to be almost completely irrelevant to 99.999999999999% of all people who have ever lived<\/wbr><\/div>\n
or ever will live<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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me (typing as I shake with laughter)<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
you are crakkkkking me up. you are the BIGGGEST NERD on the PLANNETTTTT!!!!<\/div>\n
I want to copy what you just wrote onto your FB wall<\/div>\n
so everyone can know<\/div>\n
what a GIGANTUAN NERD YOU ARE<\/div>\n
\ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4:16 PM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Jeff<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
you see, the thing is, you could only bring a project like that to completion if you had some of what I just described inside you. \u00a0The only way you could painstakingly accomplish all that is required, is for the love of the job itself.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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me<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
You could not possibly<\/strong> be more correct.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My brother Jeff, in the wee hours of the morning when he was inexplicably awake and therefore reading blogs, sent out this link to everyone in the family.\u00a0 I only just managed to read through it a few minutes ago, and while I reveled like the word-nerd that I am in the techno-speak, my appreciation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,598,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeks","category-netties-world","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}