[ExI] togas: was RE: It looks like Craig Wright was Bitcoins creator

[William Flynn Wallace]

You know it must have happened, we just don't know who or where: Exi-chat
people have posted nude.  Oh the humanity.  spike

I had my chance when I taught Fundamentals of Human Sexuality,  When I got
in several texts to consider I noticed a strange difference:  ones (I was
told) that were marketed for the South had drawings; ones for the North had
pictures.  Yeah, it's still that way.

So I managed to obtain a slide of a vulva (you can't take a picture of a
hole, can you? It's something that's not there.  Any topologists in the
crowd?) and showed it to the class, hoping that no one would go to the
dean.  I told the class that I would do the same for the male.  I could not
find such a picture, so I thought of taking my own photo.  Then I thought:
 well Bill, you are just going to arouse the girls and intimidate and shame
the boys, so you'd better not.  Did not get any flak over the vulva.
 (yeah, you're right - I wimped out)

bill w

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:25 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Anders Sandberg
>
>
> >...I don't think mailing lists are very good at enforcing dress codes...
>
> Geek parties have a strict dress code.  It's just that no one has ever
> figured out what it is.
>
> >... Or do we want a list where you have to scan your attire, and Spike
> gets
> to let you in?
>
> You know it must have happened, we just don't know who or where: Exi-chat
> people have posted nude.  Oh the humanity.
>
> >...Might motivate interesting dress, or un-dress as the case might be :-)
> -- Anders Sandberg
>
> Ja, it could be one of those cross-undressing things.  Perhaps it was a
> fantasy where some hipster is sneaking in, signs up pretending to be an
> actual geek, in full costume, nobody notices.
>
> I am old enough to have been a nerd before geek was chic.  We are talking
> back before anyone heard of the holy trinity, Jobs, Wozniak and Gates.  It
> was back before you really needed actual credentials.  But as the movement
> progressed, it became more difficult and demanding.  Eventually the real
> hardcore types became exclusive.  You could get up a really great geek
> costume, go to a gathering even without all the requisite computer and math
> knowledge, try to fake it and blend it.
>
> There were some closed societies which became impenetrable.  They would be
> those guys (always all guys in those days) hanging around in the computer
> lab while a major football game was in progress on campus.  You could get
> up
> your costume, go in, immediately be spotted.  The real geeks would point
> and
> shout "IMPOSTOR!"
>
> I had to learn actual computer skills just to convince them that I too had
> gone over to the dork side of the force.
>
> spike
>
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