{"id":88,"date":"2003-03-28T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2003-03-28T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2003-03-28T04:00:37","modified_gmt":"2003-03-28T04:00:37","slug":"geek-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Geek Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The status symbol of a geek; what defines a geek has been defiled. By who? Quake players with a penchant for <b>1337-5P341<<\/b>. Well, they invented it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>1337-5P341< does not make you a geek! A geek is identified by superior English strung together with bombastic words that evoke the response, \"Speak English please.\"\n\nThat, my friends, is a true geek. Not a wannabe who replaces letters with words and go \"1337 h4x0R m3 0wnz 411 Y0U12 13453 4123 13310N6 +0 U5!\" A geek is not comprehendable <b>already<\/b> using words you find in the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fine with 1337-5P341<; just don't use that as an excuse to glorify yourself as a geek.\n\nThere were geeks before <b>John Carmack<\/b> made MDL files commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to ask yourself this, people. Are you a geek?<\/p>\n<p>I could quantify the speaker of this supposed sentence as a member of such a class with enough eloquent proof to indicate without any uncertainty that the premise of yours truly being the subject matter is a tautology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The status symbol of a geek; what defines a geek has been defiled. By who? Quake players with a penchant for 1337-5P341<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}