Well, here I sit in my office thinking about life, family, and technology. Those are the usual things on my mind, other than sports of course. I got to thinking today, am I a geekosaurus? I mean, are my skills getting obsolete, or am I with the times? For the longest time I've considered myself quite the geek, but I've started slacking a bit. I won't jailbreak my iPhone. I wait for others to tell me if they've had successes and/or failures when upgrading before I upgrade anything. I still have a free blog and I haven't really dabbled with wordpress even though I think it's pretty cool. I've read a lot about it, and have seen it's goodness. I have a Facebook now, and I update it as frequently as I feel necessary. On that note, I really like Facebook. I've connected with people I haven't connected with in a long time. It's very neat that way. It allows you to catch up without having a long and drawn out conversation about anything you really have no desire to discuss. Yet, it's too brief. It's like today's society, totally ADD. I mean, do you really get a chance to know what someone really thought of something? I don't think so. It's better than Twitter in that sense, but it's just a blip on a daily timeline. I still think blogs are necessary as they allow you to get an entire thought down. Back to the subject though... I honestly believe that I am NOT a geekosaurus. I've merely matured in my geekness and while I keep up with all the latest bleeding edge technology, I'm more apt to see if it fits my life now and today before I waste my time on it. I call this being an elite geek. :) Your thoughts?
Note: The image in this post is from http://www.thinkgeek.com.
1 comment:
Well, if you don't want to be called a geekasourus then you better not be saying you have a Facebook. You're on Facebook. ; )
Seriously though, I'm in the same boat as you. I read tons of tech blogs and news and love the soap opera that is the tech industry. I still jump in pretty early on upgrades and the like, but I also choose my battles and only go in depth with new tech that seems to serve a distinct perpose for myself when that need comes along. I think a lot of this has to do with the sheer volume of technologies compared to just 5 or 10 years ago. If you try to mess around and learn about every one of them then you'd have no life AND you wouldn't get around to actually using anything that truly betters your life.
I don't jailbreak my phone because it's important to me that it works as reliably as Apple designed it. I pay for applications on all my devices because I have the expendable income now, I don't want to spend a weekend getting it to work right, I want the support and I believe in the necessity to financially support those who create.
We live in a technological world with polished, tested tools that just work. There just isn't the need any more to waste time in trying to save it.
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