Scratch

Where have the geeks gone?

A book with sound.

I'm basically tech support for my parents. So far I've troubleshooted various every-day problems, answered a myriad of questions on how do do this or that, replaced two hard drives, and installed Ubuntu on my dad's computer. Does that count? 

Last edited by Harakou (2011-05-24 17:49:46)

I installed the burg bootloader. 

I helped fix my parents email.

I'm actually not that geeky, but here goes:

I wrote a program to talk to you in a very annoying way.
Yeah. Everyone thinks it's "awesome".
Here it is.

Set Talking = Wscript.CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice")
Dim a
say=inputbox("Enter what you want the computer to say.")
count=inputbox("Enter the number of times to repeat.")
delay=inputbox("Enter the delay between repeats. (Milliseconds)")
if not isnumeric(count)then
wscript.quit
end if
if not isnumeric(delay)then
wscript.quit
end if
For a = ("1") to (count)
Talking.speak say
wscript.sleep(delay)
Next

It's VBScript.

Screwed math's website: Was fun
Ownge on MC: Cool!
Pwnge Scratcher: I don't know what to say!

I installed Linux on my decript old laptop, set up an mpd server and hooked it up to my stereo and an external hard drive with my music collection. Then I remote controlled it from my iPod and my laptop simultaneously. A cookie to anyone who actually ubderstood what I said.

In older times, the term geek was used for the sideshow freak in a carnival who ate anything and everything.

I am currently designing a browser game, have written and published a book (working on more), and have learned the text side to Python, figured out the basics of HTML and Javascript through looking at some web pages using the 'Edit in Notepad' on Internet Explorer and 'Javascript Editor' on Google Chrome, act as Tech Support to my parents (I can't tell you how annoying it is when they spend ten minutes trying to figure out how to do things like select multiple unconnected pieces of text at once), and have completely mastered Adobe Flash CS5.5 and I'm learning Actionscript now- and the Flash stuff has all been done in less than two months.  How's that?  Oh, and I almost forgot my understanding of advanced theoretical physics concepts, such as String theory, M theory, Singularities (basically black holes), multiple dimensions, the physical principle of several equations such as time dilation and the reason you can't go faster than the speed of light, and how to make a sibling crazy trying to tell them about it.

Ahh.

oh, and i'd like to point all you so-called geeks at this thread.