Old ghost: In order to "pole", to forget oneself

It critic Xingdong to describe geeks: those addicted to interacting with people on the internet, such as chatting on QQ or ICQ, posting on Usenet or BBS, writing on blog sites, playing mud games, and writing shared software. Geek are not necessarily computer masters, but computers are their favorites. Today, geeks have become synonymous with fashion. The
Geek, taken from the English word geek, is also an amazing guest. The clown of strange performances in the carnival, in recent years, with the rise of internet culture, the word contains intellectual excellence and the meaning of effort, but also used to describe the computer and network technology has a keen interest and devote a lot of time to study people. 26-Year-old Old Ghost, is such a typical geek, he from the first day on the internet began to think about making Web pages, when the university began to make the site for businesses to earn living, often a few days a few nights in front of the computer, just to make their site more beautiful, he even modestly said: "As a geek, I have to go a long way." "
Geeks better get along with
" The old ghost just resigned from a Guangzhou network company, according to his words, he has spent 5 years from morning till night to keep the computer day, now to recuperate, accumulate strength. Asked if he was tired of this kind of day with the computer, the old ghost hurriedly clarified, in fact, he is not completely back to rest, recently he is full of his own operation of a website to be revised, "I have been busy these days almost 24 hours online." Said the old ghost in exaggeration.
There is a simple definition of the geek is to study the computer network all day, the old ghost does not agree with this definition of him, he felt that the geek is not so narrow, in fact, as long as the new things curious and delve into the people, he thought can be called geeks. "A typist or a network chat enthusiast who may be sitting at a computer for more than 10 hours a day, but he may have left the computer and become an ordinary person lying on the couch watching TV and flipping through magazines, so that we are not considered homogeneous, they are just computer users." Only those who are passionate about something new, and who can delve into everything around them, can be called geeks. "
Most geeks spend a great deal of time and money on computers, ignoring appearances and interacting with others. So when it comes to geeks, most people have the impression that they have glasses, eyes that look away from you, hair like a mess of hay or hair, a thin body, old-fashioned clothes, paranoid personalities ...
Heard this description, the old ghost smiled, he said, this description still has a certain reason, he had already said, in order to "extreme", to be carried away, put everything else outside the body. "But it's different now, geeks are not necessarily technical lunatics, and they are not a group of people who live in isolation, but they are better off because they love new things and technologies and don't think about other chores." The

When a new site is copied
"Unlike most people, I began to think about how to do the website from the first day of contact with the Internet." "Old Ghost Contact network is not early, 2001 years before the first Internet, and he net to apply for the Sohu of free mailbox, then Sohu mailbox also send a free space, the old ghost is groping to do a" personal homepage ", called" Old Ghost's Home ".
"There are only a few funny things in it, not worth mentioning. "But since then, the old ghost has found a huge treasure trove," I really have been groping since then to do the site, even HTML do not understand it! I've been looking for books everywhere, and I've been doing it all the time. "
Sophomore, Old ghost do website" Glorious deeds "to the teacher's ears, they are headache in his all the time in the Internet café, and the family is not too well-off, so he introduced a business site to do the job. For the old ghost, that can be very familiar, very quickly finished, got 500 yuan of money, he used this money to invite students to eat meal, and the rest of the book to make a Web page to continue to study. And then, like doing a website job, Old Ghost in the university to pick up a lot of, at the beginning is an offer 500 yuan a, if not a brother to point, he did not know that the remuneration should be far more than this number, "at that time or students, 500 yuan is one months of living expenses." But I haven't done anything like this in the future. "
Most of the time, the old ghost on hand at the same time to do 6 sites, days and nights do not sleep is common, but for him to make a new website is still the most proud thing." He said his site is very standard, every time a new site will have countless imitators, their own things were copied, he also secretly proud. Asked him to do so long time to do, there is no feeling tired, old ghost silent for a while said: "Do what I like to do, I am full of passion, so many years, I still enjoy." The

The dream of a round childhood model
A typical geek is not a day of cultivation, originally he had already had "extremely" the Omen, the home big small electrical appliances, did not have one to escape his "talons", one after another was dismantled pieces, but the old ghost did not have the proud to say: "has not been able to take apart the thing which does not go up." "The only time I missed was to fix the radio at home," he said. "That thing was broken for many years, and I have no new parts to change, I can not blame." The old ghost hurried to justify.
In addition to like the disassembly of electrical appliances, old ghosts from primary school has been very like to do models, but suffer from difficult to buy good materials, he is using similar substitutes, the success rate is not too high, do most of the aircraft failed. "If I could have bought a material as good as it is now, I would have been able to play it well," he said. "Old Ghost to childhood dream has not put down, the old ghost recently discovered that several new model planes he is very right, more than the real aircraft can do the action more, especially a remote control helicopter, let him very exciting." "I'm going to buy the website that I have on hand." The old ghost is very yearning.