| rindolf | Su-Shee: I'm not good in detecting sarcasm over IRC. |
| rindolf | But naturally sometimes say sarcastic things myself. |
| * Patterner | cuts his Nerd Membership Card in small pieces |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: that's why god gave us the ;) smiley ;) |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: not God, but a Russian entrepreneur who trademarked it. |
| * rindolf | wishes we were all speaking in XML. |
| rindolf | J/K. |
| rindolf | Even Perl is not good enough for human communication. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: are you really still that nerdy in your age? |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: I guess. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: nerdy or geeky? |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: I.e: technologically inclined or having no social life? |
| * rindolf | is both though. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: so let's called it nerky. ;) |
| rindolf | But hopefully once I get a girlfriend, I'll be less of a Nerd. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: what makes you think that? |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: I'll go out. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: and stuff. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: I also consider to start studying in Tel Aviv Uni. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: and why does that require a girl friend? |
| rindolf | English/Hebrew/etc. or something. |
| rindolf | Lots of girls there. :-) |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: going out? |
| Su-Shee | those are language-skills humanities-department girls. ;) |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: yes. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: I like language geeks. |
| rindolf | Thing is I think my knowledge of English and Hebrew is too superficial. |
| rindolf | And I lack the discipline to correct it on my own. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: language departments like English are usually exactly _not_ geek-ish departments. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: you mean they are not tech-savvy? |
| rindolf | But you can be an English geek. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: they're not even language geeks usually. |
| rindolf | Or a hacker of English. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: really? |
| rindolf | How sad. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: you know some people just want to have good language skills and read books and communicate. |
| peterrooney | a good hacker will know at least three languages. |
| rindolf | Well, maybe it's different in Israel. |
| rindolf | peterrooney: human ones, right? |
| peterrooney | rindolf: at least one of them should be human |
| rindolf | I know English, Hebrew, studied Literary Arabic for 6 years and forgot most of it, and have some rudimentary French. |
| rindolf | peterrooney: ok. |
| rindolf | peterrooney: I think ever hacker should know Perl, Python, Haskell, C, Scheme/Lisp and Bash. |
| rindolf | And HTML/XHTML+CSS+etc. |
| Su-Shee | thank god I'm no hacker. ;) |
| * rindolf | hacks Su-Shee into a hacker. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: no you won't. one can perfectly well do nice tech stuff without degrading into someone he/she's not. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: don't you like programming ? Didn't you contribute to FOSS? |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: aaand? I can do that without declaring myself as hacker, nerd, geek or whatever. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: OK. |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: but it still makes you a hacker. |
| Su-Shee | rindolf: trust me, I'm very much not a hacker. really. honest to god not. |
| * rindolf | gives a blue badge of honour saying "Hacker" to Su-Shee |
| rindolf | Su-Shee: too late, you're one of us now! ;-) |
| rindolf | "Resistance is futile." |