Since I wish to lose no geek points, here is the follow-up post for yesterday.
We- Amber and I- went to the place in-between platforms thirteen and fourteen of Waterloo station, where we found a whole bunch of geeks immersed in playing Ticket to Ride, which seems to be the fourth most (as opposed to forth most, which is reserved for War on Terror) complicated board game on Earth. Since the two of us were rather late, we instead played Whot, although not without adding the Prime Number rule, the Multiplication, Addition and Division rules, the Wind rule, and, eventually, the Justifiable rule, which made it actually entertaining.
I love Geohashing, in all its geekiness. Maybe the true joy of it is that it is amazing, poignant, even: an utterly random location is picked, and, without two words being said to one another, people assemble there. It's a sense of community, really. (Pictures are here, BTW.)
I feel like there is community everywhere now. Marxism has always been like this. You feel safe for once, at home. Strangers, who all share at least one aspect of your ideology. Geek culture is like that. But it's quieter, more subtle. That feeling, though, of finding out that someone you know is a geek too, is incomparable.
Geek points for saying that? Loads, right?
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2008-06-08 @ 22:58