Friends with annoying habits.
By blog on May. 23, 2009.
My circle of friends is comprised mostly of nerds, geeks, and dorks. That’s cool, we are all happy about that. We do have one unique creature, the geek-yuppie hybrid. He’s an alright sort, but does have some interesting personality quirks that the rest of us find amusing at times, and irritating at others.
As I said, he is a yuppie. He likes being a yuppie and completely embraces this. He has to have every new bit of tech on the market, and the best of each one. He hasn’t kept the same iPod for even a year, and whilst the rest of us do like our tech, we aren’t as on-trend as this guy. I mean, we tend to have what will get us the best performance for what we need/want, but he goes with whatever has the most prestige.
When we all organise to raid on LOTRO, he is the one jumping around all the time, yelling for the Minstrel in the group to heal him, and generally needs a very strong guiding hand or will not really know what to do. That’s okay, we don’t mind, we all have fun, and as long as one of us tells him what to do whenever he get distracted by chasing the rabbits, he’s actually an alright player.
His latest new fad is using his VoIP line with a Polycom audio conferencing equipment to call us all at the same time. It is so frustrating that he can’t just call one of us at a time, or even just email us all, when he wants to set up a raid. Seriously, I will think I am just talking to him, and then I will hear the voice of one of my other friends and then I get this vivid mental image of him sitting there with his laptop and conferencing equipment and dialing us all with ignorant glee. We don’t want to ruin his fun, but at the same time, it would be nice to be told when you are being brought into a conference call, and why in the heck conference from home!?
Category: Technology