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(01) being a geek-girl
Nov. 1st, 2010 05:51 pmOh! Y'all, it is November, it is November! And that means that once again it is time to write about awesome things every day until you are all puking rainbows and all the world's surfaces are thickly coated with glitter and you are seeing nothing but unicorns and cuteoverload entries in your peripheral vision.
Aren't you excited? I know I am! It is awesome!
That is not, however, the awesome I wish to discuss today. The awesome I wish to discuss today came to me as I was reading a review of the GPS device I just bought (I was seduced into it by the devices of A Friend, whose car I was in this weekend, and next time we'll be able to take my car if we wish), wherein some patronizing guy said, "Like most ladies, she's a little technology-intimidated."
Let me just say. I am not technology-intimidated. I love new technology, I love sitting up with a new challenge, I love being the person people call when their mechanical worlds crumble at their feet. I love that if I don't know a technological thing, I can sit down with the information and learn it, quickly and efficiently. I love being able to rewire lamps and toasters. I love that if my dog were ever to chew through my computer power cable (not that this has ever happened to me), I could spend a few minutes stripping and splicing to make a working cable until the new one arrived in the mail. I love that I get machines and the languages that speak to them. I like to imagine that it makes twenty-first century life very much easier, and I can't imagine living without this particular skill-set.
And you know what I love even more? That I'm not the only lady like that out there, by a long shot. I am by no means walking a lonely road, here.
Aren't you excited? I know I am! It is awesome!
That is not, however, the awesome I wish to discuss today. The awesome I wish to discuss today came to me as I was reading a review of the GPS device I just bought (I was seduced into it by the devices of A Friend, whose car I was in this weekend, and next time we'll be able to take my car if we wish), wherein some patronizing guy said, "Like most ladies, she's a little technology-intimidated."
Let me just say. I am not technology-intimidated. I love new technology, I love sitting up with a new challenge, I love being the person people call when their mechanical worlds crumble at their feet. I love that if I don't know a technological thing, I can sit down with the information and learn it, quickly and efficiently. I love being able to rewire lamps and toasters. I love that if my dog were ever to chew through my computer power cable (not that this has ever happened to me), I could spend a few minutes stripping and splicing to make a working cable until the new one arrived in the mail. I love that I get machines and the languages that speak to them. I like to imagine that it makes twenty-first century life very much easier, and I can't imagine living without this particular skill-set.
And you know what I love even more? That I'm not the only lady like that out there, by a long shot. I am by no means walking a lonely road, here.
