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Last night we had a THEM party, and watched a little TV. Among the shows was "The 25 Greatest Videos to Get It On to" or something to that effect. And we mocked everything.

I think I realized at the end that the mockery was a symptom of something but I couldn't tell what. I figured it must be something beyond the usual geek tendency to shun those things that popular culture embraces, but maybe that's exactly what it is.

Popular culture embraces the kind of televised seduction present in many music videos. Therefore geek culture must shun it, in favor of, for example, the kind of televised angst you see in anime, and in science fiction shows.

Somehow I think geeks may be a little threatened by the idea of "beautiful people" getting it on. Perhaps our pragmatic minds fear that they'll breed faster than us. Maybe it's standard jealousy, if not at the contrivances on-screen taken seriously, but at the freedom with which the actors therein can perform them. Or, maybe we just weren't programmed with the same visual cues that the pop-culture zombies are, and as a result we can see just how contrived a music video is. Or maybe those of us who have gotten it on, didn't use music videos in our seduction ploy.

Or maybe it was just all the people talking over the videos. Many of them were more than a bit dopey.

Though I do think there's a kind of unwarranted stigma against seduction in geek culture. That would explain a lot.

Pegasi

I saw a Fiero with a pegasus drawn on its hood. I mistook it for a bird at first, but when I mentioned it, the owner insisted it was a horse, and when I looked again, I realized that we were both right.

I also realized that since a pegasus is a flying mammal, one could argue that it is technically a bat.

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I had a rather lazy day today.

I could have at least walked to the store and gotten some food, and cooked myself something. But instead, I just ordered a chicken alfredo pizza from Papa John's, and got a soda from the vending machine.

Last night I got on the bus despite being a quarter short for the fare; I had only a dollar and a twenty. When I went home by cab, the fare was about $9, but the cabbie only had $8 in change. Three-fold rule my aß.

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Have any books been written about geek culture, and what sets it apart from other subcultures, in America or other countries?

I seem to think a lot about geekdom as a sociological phenomenon.

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Screw webcomics; funny is a hard thing to be every day. I think I'll check Boring3D every day instead, and just enjoy some mild computer graphics.

Too much humor jades one, doesn't it. And I like the artificially smooth look of the kind of 3D that they would show off in 1992 and say "You know, it takes our mainframe three hours to render each frame."