The first thing I wanted to share is not actually from the internet, unless you buy it there. Conveniently, at the end of this segment, there will be a link to where you can purchase this book. For my birthday, I received a book called The Geeks' Guide To World Domination by Garth Sundem. I read it in bursts because it's actually pretty good stuff. In essence, this book is geek humor at its finest, talking about science, math, latin, beer, and many other geeky subjects. But something that I found to be very true to my own existence is the following passage from Sundem's introduction to the book:
"...we rocketeers remained geek kings and queens of only the rocket club (and - in the spirit of full disclosure - later the jazz band and the math club and the chess clubs. Wow, this is actually rather cathartic). Today, with highly specialized knowledge of all sorts driving the world, it is as if more and more people are clamoring for inclusion in these clubs. Everyone now wants and needs information, leading to a much wider pool of adoration for the alpha geeks in each discipline.
It may be no revelation that yesterday's geeks rule today's world. A quote widely misattributed to Bill Gates: "Don't make fun of geeks because one day you will end up working for one." But with most of society now acting as phytoplankton at the base of the ecosystems in wich geeks are the alpha predators, we are not only driving the traditional geek fields, but we're starting to drive cool as well."
After reading this, I started thinking about my life. No no, I'm not going to get all emotional and sappy about my hard-knock life. But I am going to say that I'm pretty sure that I've made the correct choice going into Computer Science and Software Engineering. Although it is a very geeky field (in a tie with the physics, chemistry and mathematics), I will be the person who will say, "Yes. This can be done." Thus, envied by everyone. Now, I just have to work on being ridiculously good looking and life will be happy! Haha. Who am I kidding. Anyway, here's your link to purchase this book.
Moving onto the second the I wanted to share is Wil Wheaton. Okay, I'm not actually going to cut him up into little pieces and give everyone a piece of Wil Wheaton, but I'm going to turn your attention to a couple of things that he does. First one, is his Twitter account. Good stuff to follow. And easy to do if you have Google Chrome and Chromed Bird. The second piece of information about Wil Wheaton I want to bring everyone's attention to is his blog, WWdN: In Exile. It's fun to read, and I'm glad I stumbled upon it. And finally, he has two podcasts that I have downloaded and am currently listening to. So far, I haven't listened to Memories of the Futurecast yet, but I do know that Radio Free Burrito is absolutely brilliant.
The last thing I want to share with you tonight is short video series called The Guild. It grabs various stereotypes about video gamers (specifically MMO gamers), and pulls the attributes apart and takes a handful of them to their extremes. It's highly entertaining. Not that I encourage the use of torrents or anything, but you can easily find the first two 'seasons' of The Guild on Bit Torrent search engines, or you can watch them through YouTube. Or, apparently, you can go to their website: WatchTheGuild[dot]com and....ya know, watch it.
And on that note, inspired by Mr. Wheaton, I'm going to add another thing to things that I may think about adding as features to this blog. That addition may be a podcast. Not wanting to do this alone, I tried to convince a friend of mine to co-host a podcast with me, however, this may not happen with her until the end of January at the earliest. I might solo one before then...but who knows. I'm still trying to put everything together to get a reader base before I attempt to get much of a listen base. Though now that I think about it, it might be an amazing idea to get both of these off the ground. Heh, I'm a genius.
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