In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with the smooth smile, or the dude in the corner typing away on his laptop? The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.

1) While geeks and nerds may be awkward, they’re well-meaning 9 out of 10 times. That smooth dude with the sly grin and the spider hands? Wonder what HIS intentions are… plus, I’ve never had a geek guy not call me when he said he would. Score major points THERE.

2) They’re useful. In this tech-savvy world, it’s great to have a b/f who can make your laptop, desktop, and just about anything else that plugs into a wall behave itself.

3) They’re more romantic than they’re given credit for. Ok true, their idea of romance might be to make up a spiffy web-page with all the reasons why they love you, with links to pics of you and sonnets and such… but hey. It lasts longer than flowers, plus you can show your friends.

4) Due to their neglected status, there are plenty to choose from. You like ’em tall and slender? There are plenty of geeks/nerds who are. You like ’em smaller with more meat on their bones? Got that too.

5) They’ve got brains. Come on now, how can intelligence be a bad thing?

6) Most are quite good at remembering dates. Like birthdates and such, especially if they know it’ll make you happy. Due again to their neglected status, they’re more attentive than guys who “have more options”. Plus, with all that down time without a steady girlfriend, they’ll likely have mental lists of all the things they’d love to do once they GOT a girlfriend.

7) Sex. Yep. Sex. I’m not really familiar with this myself, but I’ve friends who’ve been intimate with geek guys and it’s raves all around. They say a virgin wrote the Kama Sutra… all that time thinking about sex, imagining sex, dreaming about sex, (they are male after all) coupled with a desire to make you happy? Use your imagination.

8) They’re relatively low-maintenance. Most can be fueled on pizza, Twinkies and Mt Dew. No complicated dinners needed here, so if you’re not the best cook, eh. Can you order a pizza?

9) Most frequent bars as often as slugs frequent salt mines. You won’t have to worry much about your geek guy getting his “groove” on with club hotties because, frankly, he’ll be too busy rooting around under his computer wondering where that spare cable went. You won’t have to worry about him flirting with other women because, 9 out of 10 times, he’ll zip right by them in a perfect b-line towards the nearest electronics store. I’ve seen this happen.
Me: “Eww. Victoria Secret’s Models… They’re so skinny. How is that feminine? You can see her ribs!”
Geek Guy: “ooooooo…”
Me: “Hey!” *notices he is staring lustfully towards the computer store*
Geek Guy: “What?”
Me: “Never mind…”

10) Although he may not want to go to every outing with you, you can arrange swaps, as in, you’ll go to his Gamer Con dressed as an elf princess if he’ll take you to the ballet. Plus, if he doesn’t want to go someplace with you, you won’t have to worry much about what he’s up to. You’ll probably come home to find him asleep on his keyboard in a sea of Mt. Dew cans with code blinking from the screen. It’s ok. He’s used to this. Just toss a blanket over him and turn out the light.

11) His friends aren’t jerks. I can’t stress this enough. You’ll more likely get “Omg! A GIRL!! Can I see?!” than “Hey hot stuff back that ass up here and let me get some grub on…” They’re awkward geeks too and will, 9 times out of 10, treat you with the utmost respect and, more than likely, a note of awe. A cute girl picked one of their clan to date? It could happen to them! Hope! Drag some of your single girlfriends over, open up a pack of Mt. Dew, crack open the DnD set and get working. Nothing impresses geek guys more than a girl who can hack-n-slash (well ok maybe if she can code… a geek can dream).

12) They’re rarely if ever possessive. They trust you, so you can be yourself around them. You like to walk around the house in a ratty t-shirt for comfort? He won’t care. He does too! They won’t get pissy if you don’t wear make-up or don’t want to bother primping your hair. If you gain a few pounds, they won’t try their best to make you feel like crap.

13) They’re usually very well educated. Physics majors and the like. See #5. You won’t have to listen to him blathering on about his car (ok maybe a little), he’ll have loads of other interesting things to talk about. Politics, world events, how much the chicken burgers down at the local place rock, so long as you douse them in hot sauce…

14) You’ll almost never have to hear, “Yaw dawg whazzap!!” plop out of their mouths. Unless it’s in jest. They spell properly, use correct punctuation, and are able to tell the difference between the toilet and the floor. They almost never get “wasted”, so you won’t have to worry about coming home to find him and his friends passed out on the floor amidst a pile of beer bottles. Mt. Dew cans, perhaps…

15) And the final reason why geeks and nerds make great boyfriends: They actually give a damn about you. Not how you look (though that’s a plus), not how skinny you are, not how much make-up you primp yourself up with, but they like you for you. That kind of thing lasts longer than “DaMN baby you got a fine ass!!!” Believe me.

Text taken from a message posted by Tieske at The Dragon.

La filosofia no sirve ni al Estado ni a la Iglesia, que tienen otras preocupaciones. No sirve a ningun poder establecido. La filosofia sirve para entristecer. Una filosofia que no entristece o no contraría a nadie no es una filosofia. Sirve para detectar la estupidez, hace de la estupidez una cosa vergonzosa. Solo tiene este uso: denunciar la bajeza del pensamiento bajo todas sus formas. ¿Existe alguna disciplina fuera de la filosofia que se proponga la critica de todas las mistificaciones, sea cual fuere su origen y su fin? Denunciar todas las ficcione ssin las que las fuerzas reactivas no podrian prevalecer. Denunciar en la mistificacion esta mezcla de bajeza y estupidez que forma tambien la asombrosa complicidad de las victimas y de los verdugos. En fin, hacer del pensamiento algo agresivo, activo y afirmativo. Hacer hombres libres, hombres que no confundan los fines de la cultura con el provecho del Estado, la moral o la religion. Combatir el resentimiento, la mala conciencia, que ocupan el lugar del pensamiento. Vencer lo negativo y sus falsos presagios. ¿Quien, a excepcion de la filosfia, se interesa por todo esto? La filosofia como critica nos dice lo mas positivo de si misma: una empresa de desmitificacion. Y, a este respecto, que nadie se atreva a proclamar el fracaso de la filosofia porque, por grandes que sean la estupidez y la bajeza, serian aun mayores si no subsistiera un poco de filosofia que, en cada epoca, les impida ir todo lo lejos que quisieran. Los filosofos supieron decir a los hombres lo que ocultaba su mala conciencia y su resentimiento. Supieron oponer a los poderes establecidos la imagen de un hombre libre.

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)

“Joaquín Sabina ha desvelado que su nuevo disco se titulará Números rojos y girará en torno a asuntos de introspección y meditación. El autor jienense se ha definido como un “jubilado” de las giras en vivo después de la enfermedad que mermó sus cuerdas vocales y le alejó de los escenarios.”

Información extraída de la página oficial de Joaquín Sabina.

En su grave rincón, los jugadores
rigen las lentas piezas. El tablero
los demora hasta el alba en su servero
ambito en que se odian dos colores.

Adentro irradian magicos rigores
las formas: torre homérica, ligero
caballo, armada reina, rey postrero,
oblicuo alfil y peones agresores.

Cuando los jugadores se hayan ido,
cuando el tiempo los haya consumido,
ciertamente no habrá cesado el rito.

En el Oriente se encendió esta guerra
cuyo anfiteatro es hoy toda la tierra.
Como el otro, este juego es infinito.

Jorge Luis Borges

Citando a Sabina:
“…que disparate de partida de ajedrez
con una partenaire adicta al jaque mate…”

La Universidad de Palermo me entregó en prestamo una Palm m130 para utilizarla durante la cursada de “Programacion de Dispositivos Moviles”, para poder probar en hardware real las aplicaciones Java 2 MicroEdition que desarrollemos.

Es un chiche bastante entretenido y tiene un aceptable poder de procesamiento, que le permite por ejemplo ejecutar un emulador de GameBoy. Ya estuve jugando un rato agregandole aplicaciones, juegos y hasta un lector del I-Ching.
Notese en la foto la pantalla de inicio con la imagen de B. Jenet, la bucanera mas sexy de SNK. (Haxored with Open Logo Hack 1.14)