Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 4 - Digital Toys

I have a young friend, let’s call him Adam, since that’s his name, and we’re calling him young, but at 22 he’s not really young any more and I only use the word because to admit he’s no longer young would be to admit that I am getting old, who enjoys a good debate. I [...]

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 3 - Education

I had another topic in mind for part 3, but a reader asked a pretty interesting question in response to part 2 that got me thinking. It was so good a question, in fact, that I’ve spent most of my idle CPU cycles this morning formulating a response:
How do you think someone who did not [...]

Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 2 - The Job

Hi Slashdot, read this, woulda ya?
Did you ever see that one Friends episode where they make up a game where they test their knowledge of each other? In one of the rounds, the girls are asked what Chandler does for a living, and the answer they come up with is “transponster!” Which of course isn’t [...]

Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Embracing My Inner Geek: Part 1 - The User Group

We heard a sermon a couple weeks ago about giftedness — about focusing on your primary giftedness, because that’s where God wants to use you most.
Whether I like it or not (and sometimes I don’t) my primary giftedness is technology. Despite everything else I think I am, or wish I was, there will always be [...]

Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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