Thursday, December 3, 2009

Geek Dinner

One comment inspired a post on my other blog: Rockin' On: the Blog.


Last night was the monthly Geek Dinner. It is a misnamed event, at least according to my Canadian Oxford Dictionary.

geek: 1. an uninteresting, ineffectual, socially inept person; a nerd. 2. a person thoroughly devoted to one usu. technical interest, study, etc., often to the expense of social interaction.

The people attending this London, Ontario, event do not suffer from limited interests. Nor are they socially inept. The two pictured above are both bloggers and they run sites with a heavy slant towards knitting.

The one woman also knows her way around cameras, apertures and f/stops, as well as knitting needles and all that pearl one, knit two stuff. I checked her site and some of her pictures are so good that it makes me embarrassed to post this image taken with a camera clearly being pushed past its quality limits.

The truth is that the computer world attracts some of the most creative people around. It is a world of true discovery and many of the people at the dinner are the people pushing the edges of this new worldpushing the edges and expanding the territory.

When I was young, I discovered that some of the most creative people were physics majors and not art students. I think today it is possible the torch has been passed by the physics types to those with a strong interest in computer stuffhardware and software. It was a short, clean hand-off.

6 comments:

Balkan Style Bloggers said...

Hey! That's me knitting the mitten! Not a bad picture considering the lighting. It was very nice to meet you! Hope to make it out next month - I should have two mittens by then. :)

knitty_kat said...

Maybe dork would be a better word?

It was a pleasure meet & chatting with you.

Phronk said...

Good to see you out last night.

I agree that, at least around here, many technology oriented people are also very creative. It's lead to some great creative output, and the future should be bright too.

Anonymous said...

Not a bad picture considering the lighting.

Anonymous said...

I agree that, at least around here, many technology oriented people are also very creative. It's led to some great creative output, and the future should be bright too.

Anonymous said...

Maybe dork would be a better word?