Geek boys and conspiracy theories

[trixtah]

Over the course of this week, I attended the RedHat course that is the last one for achieving the RedHat Certified Engineer qualification. I won't be doing the actual exam any time soon, since it has been the most difficult course I've done as an adult. While I had no problem with the concepts (except for bloody SELinux, give me a break), carrying out the lab sessions was an exercise in frustration. Even when I followed some solutions line by line, they were still frustrating - ie. they didn't work. The instructor couldn't figure out why some things didn't work. Not one of my happier weeks. Although getting the email working was a breeze, hah.

Anyways, we all had lunch together, and of course I was the only female in the class. Within half an hour of chat, they all got onto their outré theories as to the origins of 9/11. I really don't have patience with conspiracy theories on that matter. Anyone with any brain can see how the towers collapsed. The planes were most definitely civil aviation planes. If you have the slightest inkling of how aviation systems work (and my own inkling is very slight), you know just how easy it is for an air traffic controller to lose a particular plane when there are thousands flying around, its transponder is turned off, and it's not where you expect it to be. ATCs manage sectors. If a pilot doesn't update the ATC of his/her location, and flies into another sector, that unidentified blip on the radar screen could be anything (assuming that sector has full radar coverage). My boss, who should know better about the aviation side, is another one of these conspiracy idiots.

Ranting aside, I've decided that conspiracy theories fulfill the same mechanism for a certain kind of geek boy that those schmaltzy "you're a special person, forward this on to 5000 people and make a wish" chain emails sent by certain females do. It's a kind of bonding thing. Both things drive me absolutely insane. What happens if you get a conspiracy geek-boy making babies with a glurge-letter chick? I'm sure the resulting offspring would be slaves of Cthulhu in short order.

Oh, and to the uber-nerdboy who couldn't eat with his mouth shut, and who thought Torchwood was too much with the sexiness, because you know, there has been "lesbian kissing"? Get a fucking life.

[Wine and eps 8 & 9 of Torchwood are starting to make me human. Just as well.]

Comments

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

There was a man complaining about lesbian kissing? That's something you don't hear every day.

Project for the New Year: Trix gets permanent employee status.

No, really, 9/11 was arranged by the US governements in a bid to screw everyone else's date system..

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Terry Pratchett paraphrased:
"It continued to amaze him that a government which was regularly credited with the inability to manage its own affairs, grasp simple concepts or organise a piss-up in a brewery was also supposed to have concealed an alien invasion and sustained a long-term conspiracy over the moon landings..."

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

:::brainless Servalan swoon commment:::

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

You know, all the "you're a special person, forward this on to 5000 people and make a wish" chain emails that I get are from men. (Well, from one man in particular most of the time.)

[ironed_orchid]

There's nothing wrong with being a slave to Cthulhu.

I've heard a bunch of geekboys complain about the emotional and sexual stuff on teh new who, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to find them a little stunned by Torchwood. Actually, if all he saw was was lesbian kissing, I suspect he only watched the first two episodes and then gave up. Idiot.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

It's good that someone likes Torchwood. :-7 Artyem and I have given up on it because it just irked us to the point where we didn't enjoy it any more... they're a Big Sekrit Above The Government Agency and they've got their name on their car wiv blinkenlites? They're doing Vital World-Saving Stuff and they put up with unprofessional idiotic behaviour from their staff on a weekly basis? Puh-leeeze. Several of the plots almost seemed as if they were going to make sense, until the Amazing Hand-waving Pull A Rabbit Out Of The Hat Solution appeared again. And if they're gonna have the cameras focussing so much and so detailedly on them waving firearms around whenever threatened, it'd really help if someone on the production staff actually knew how to use them. *sigh*

Sorry, I'll stop ranting now. :-\ I really wanted to like Torchwood, but I found that the idiotic writing got too much for me. I gather you find plenty to like in the show. If you felt like telling me what you enjoy about it, I'd be interested in seeing a different angle on it.