Sunday, January 26, 2003

GeekFest 2003 GeekFest 2003 seemed to have been a success, hurray! I think I owe a debt of gratitude to the chili, which offered itself up as burnt offerings by opting to self-immolate. The list of movies was: Desk Set--GirlGeek Katherine Hepburn as a research librarian IS who I wanted to be if I ever grew up. Spenser Tracy is the geek who appreciates her weird sense of humor and her incredible intelligence (she trounces both his IQ test and his computer, ha!). This movie has not lost any of its own humor and intelligence over the decades, and I would recommend it as the movie to watch with a geekfirl. Sneakers--Every flavor of geek! Of course I'm rooting for the blind geek, though his tech is the only tech that really stands up to be more than a MacGuffen. Free Enterprise--Beyond geek. This movie proved to be even more fun to watch with a roomful of geeks than I thought it would be, especially since it takes the collective geekiness of the group to catch all the material quoted and the references in the background. This is one of the most fun movies ever. Okay, that's my movie report, back to the books. Current read: George Landow's _Hypertext 2.0_. If you are interested in exploring the space where literature and computer technology come together, begin here. You can proceed through the bibliography and materials cited in the text, and Landow does an amazing job of summarizing the issues involved in where literature is going in the 21st century. I also appreciate his exploration of the "Technology will result in the death of the book" argument, which I found to be particularly useful in understanding the perspective of those opposed to technology. Oh no, one of my housemates is playing the evil bovine level of Diablo. They make such pathetic mooing sounds when they die... 12:25:41 PM    comment []