Date   : Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:12:17 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Electric Dreams last night.

Muzer wrote:

> - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.1

There's a 3.12 y'know?


The problem with The Geek Code is it is waaaaay out of date. Dilbert is 
immortal, but X-Files? Doom? C'mon!

Also catch the references to VMS (say what?) and OS/2 (yowzers!) with no 
mention of actual modern cutting edge, like Ubuntu.

Practically NO mention of a teched-up mobile phone. The closest we get is:
   "I am a WebMaster . Don't even think about trying to view my homepage
    without the latest version of Netscape. When I'm not on my normal net
    connection, I surf the web using my Newton and a cellular modem."
which is almost comically funny.

MSIE? Firefox? Opera-the-pretender? Hello!? I bet half the rugrats in 
the world uploading nonsense to YouTube don't even KNOW that Firefox was 
born of Netscape, and probably think Mozilla is a Japanese monster movie 
like Cloverfield but with really strange dialogue and subtitles...

THE O.J TRIAL? How dated is THAT!?


For what it is worth:
--8<--------
GAT d+ s: a C++>+++ !U P-- W++/+++ w++() PS+ PE t-- R* tv+(+++) b+>++ 
DI++/++++ e* !r
--8<--------


Best wishes,

Rick.

PS: For those scratching their heads, try:
     http://www.joereiss.net/geek/ungeek.html

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