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Re: [OT] Linux Geek Reading Tastes

[a meta-comment to start with: I do not believe this is offtopic for LIG. It would be boring indeed if the only thing we had to do for fun is to have license wars...;-)] 

At 10:50 AM 5/22/00 -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:


* Geeks in the US tend to be over-the-average-weight, bearded / long haired
(generally unkempt) social misfits.  In India they tend to be skinny,
bespectacled and more conformistic and socially - adjusted.
I will note here that Thaths is reasonably skinny and used to wear glasses. <g> He's socially well-adjusted as well (one good turn deserves another) 


* Geeks tend to use SF / fantasy as an escape from reality.  (I'll probably
be boo-ed off stage for this).
This, I'm not so sure about. It probably has at least a little to do with the fact that the geek community, almost by deifinition, has low resistance to change (which is a GOOD THING. How many of you still use 486s ?) and is thus more open to reading stuff set in different milieus. 

Udhay
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