I am the geekiest geek of all Geekdom. Bow before me, geeks.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

I sweated bullets, no, I SWEATED ICBMs to get this damn thing to work. It's being announced at the VON trade show (http://www.von.com) that started today in Boston. People who like to fiddle with VoIP, feel free to try this out:

http://www.chanskype.com (take a look at the "about us" link)

*howls primal scream of catharsis*

And let me add that all the other people who appear at the pic seriously rock. I couldn't have done it without them, especially my boss.

[LynzM]

1. You ARE a big geek.

Wow. Nice, though! :bounce:

[matcom]

2. 'Hard Core'

;)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Huh huh. Huh huh.

[qnr]

4. Good work n/t

[Benfea]

5. You are hereby the Alpha Nerd for today! -NT

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Alpha is for jocks. I am the Lambda Lambda Lambda Nerd, bitches!

[Benfea]

8. OK, you are no longer the Alpha Nerd.

A real alpha nerd would have known that my use of that phrase was a reference to animal behavior science (e.g. "alpha wolf").

[hunter]

7. What the hell is skype???

:hide:

[Blue_Tires]

9. congrats!

even though i have NO idea what that is supposed to be about

[querelle]

10. Feh.........

You are nothing but a miniscule ant turd compared to HYNOTOAD. Become humble and learn from your betters you bottom feeding little scumsucking low-life.

There. You've been told.

Q

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. I core dump in your general direction. -nt

[sakabatou]

12. I have no clue what any of that is...

[SKKY]

13. All I can say is...

01001001 00100000 01100010 01101111 01110111 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100110 01101111 01101111 00101110 00100000 00100000 01001001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101111 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 00101110

[hfojvt]

14. isn't the hallmark of geekdom

supposed to be that things like that are child's play? Or at least sirius fun.

To sweat ICBMs sounds militaristic to start with, but to have worked so hard, Shirley proves you are a mere geek wannabe, a pretender to the throne.

[qnr]

15. Well, geekdom can be hard work - consider Dave Small, and Neil Young

Dave made a hardware Macintosh emulator for the Atari ST right after it came out, around 1985. There is a well-known (well, in the Atari world) tale about how he did it on page 128 of the Spectre 128 manual:

     While writing the original Magic Sac, the time came for me to code the keyboard & mouse driver.
     This was really hard, and I struggled over the design for a long time. Problem was, on the Mac, the mouse was run directly by the 68000 via interrupts, through the SCC chip. On the ST, the microprocessor, which periodically interrupts the 68000 to tell it where the mouse moved to. Also, on both units, the keyboard was run by a standalone microprocessor, and the codes returned were totally different. It was all totally different.
     I dreaded doing it. I saw problems on top of the problems. Interrupt conflicts, mouse resolution, keyboard mapping... Finally, in desperation, I reached far back into my bag of programmer's tricks for the old axiom: no pain, no gain.
     I extended this to: If pain, gain. Well, it's logical, right?
     So I looked through my record collection for something that would be true pain. And I found it: Neil Young, live in concert. Off key, trembly voice, songs whose lyrics would depress a hyena.
     I put on the record player on automatic repeat, turned it on, and set to coding. Six hours and 1,500 lines of code later, I was done. I tried assembling it for the first time. No errors.
     So I ran it. The keyboard worked; I typed "a", and the Mac knew I typed "a". I was really impressed. so I got ready to debug the mouse code (which I was really dreading); I moved the mouse to make room for a legal pad to take notes on... and the mouse pointer onscreen tracked with the mouse as I moved it.
     I played with the mouse in utter amazement for a few minutes. It worked.
     This is the first piece of programming I have ever written that worked the first time. As any programmer will tell you, this doesn't ever happen; it did for me, just this once.
     I attribute it all to Neil. So, these days, I keep in reserve a cassette of Live Rust (no kidding, that's the name), and when the programming gets tough, Neil gets going.

- Dave Small

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Oh my. I felt EXACTLY like this guy.

Only the equivalent of Neil Young for me was the perspective of having to work nonstop, no holidays, no Saturday, no Sundays, no lunch breaks, no leisure time, no nothing, until things worked.

It was pain enough for me.

[qnr]

20. oooo touchy touchy... the response was to hfojvt, I appreciated your work

--- but then again, I suppose it's SOP for royalty to have tantrums, geek royalty or not :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. ?????

I liked that post. I identify with the guy you quoted. :shrug:

[qnr]

22. I just like screwing with big shots, (read my hobbies in my profile and

you'll see I'm just doing my job :) )

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. "Confusing as many people as humanly possible."

Yep, did a good job on that. :thumbsup:

[zanne]

17. We secretly admire geeks.

Don't let us fool you. The way you guys manage to connect one thingy to another thingy and make the whole thing work makes us hot. The techno vocab makes us tingle. (No, really. We all secretly wish we could do what you do).

[Ellen Forradalom]

18. CPD, I adore you.

I'm a geek and I always enjoy your posts. Congratulations!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Ahhh, a fawning, groveling clique. It's nice having one of those. -nt

[Ellen Forradalom]

24. Calling all Diggers

Digg the story!
http://digg.com/search?area=all&age=7&sort=new&s=chanskype&submit=Search

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. Oh, that.

A coworker of mine posted it. In all fairness, I think the language was too over the top.

[qnr]

27. del.icio.us too n/t

[swag]

26. Geeko Supreme.

A geek among geeks.

Geeky McGeekerson.

Geekberry Geekstein.

[Blue_Tires]

28. ttt