[ExI] beauty queens offer opinions on math

[John Grigg]

Spike wrote:
But occasionally a classmate would know I sucked at some particular
engineering or math skill, at which time one could lose status as an
actual geek, and would then be expected to dress fashionably.  Hey,
it’s the law.  So if one walked into a room full of actual geeks
dressed in geek attire (such as a calculator on the belt, horn-rim
glasses and a pocket protector) the alpha geek might look at one’s
costume and comment: You are lying!
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The alpha geek at my college was fortunately a very kindly soul, who
encouraged others, and reminded me of a young Professor Farnsworth
from Futurama.  I was told while still in school that he was seriously
considering a position with the NSA as a codemaker and breaker.  This
guy was heavyweight smart and I heard (part of his legend) that his
instructors would "joke" that if there were any questions, that they
should be directed to him! lol

I would suspect he is aware of this list.

John


On 10/18/11, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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>>. On Behalf Of natasha at natasha.cc
> Subject: Re: [ExI] beauty queens offer opinions on math
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> Psst ... I was a beauty queen who flunked math. .  Bty, not everyone who
> have problems with this and realted skills are fricking beauty queens:
> <http://www.dyslexiaonline.com/famous/famous.htm>
> http://www.dyslexiaonline.com/famous/famous.htm
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> Ja, and it works the other way too.  In college if one dressed in geek
> costume, it was equivalent to claiming to be a math or engineering genius.
> Everyone knows you need to be brilliant in some technical field to
> legitimately dress retro-geek.
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> But occasionally a classmate would know I sucked at some particular
> engineering or math skill, at which time one could lose status as an actual
> geek, and would then be expected to dress fashionably.  Hey, it's the law.
> So if one walked into a room full of actual geeks dressed in geek attire
> (such as a calculator on the belt, horn-rim glasses and a pocket protector)
> the alpha geek might look at one's costume and comment: You are lying!
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> spike
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