Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Dave Schappell is Seattle's Geek of the Week
Oh, I'm so proud -- I have so many people to thank. My computer teachers, Mr. Fisher and Ms. Rothermel, who taught me everything I know about BASIC. Radio Shack, for developing and marketing the wonderful TRS-80 that I pined over. Texas Instruments for making the even more incredible TI-99/4A, that was connected to my tape recorder backup drive. My parents, for getting me my own phone line, to power my bedroom-powered bulletin board, the Magical Tavern. All of the engineers at TeachStreet, who I've taught so much to as we've built the site -- they've learned quickly and have taken well to my guidance and technical wisdom.
Thank you all -- I love you all.
Yes, I'm Seattle's Geek of the Week -- take THAT, Daryn -- who's your daddy now?!?
Labels: geek, seattle, teachstreet
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
You Know You're a Geek If ...
- You've used the glow of a cell phone or PDA as a flashlight
- You've typed quietly to secretly surf / blog so as to not wake your spouse
- You look forward to defragmenting your hard drive
- You like to uninstall programs from your computer
- You read 100's of blog posts but not the good ones... Those you flag for later, but never get to them!
- You call someone to tell them to read an email that you just sent them
Anyone have others for the list?
And, yes, I've done all of the above...
Labels: geek, nerd, you know you're a geek
