Jun 05 2006
first geek experience
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Note: this is a repost of a deleted post where the formatting totally f*******-up my whole blog lay-out. Apologies to people with RSS feed who saw all my attempts to correct the formating. You’ll have to squint to read the paragraphs because using copy and paste for the repost hasn’t worked, I can’t work out how to get back to the default font size for this post
My first experience of ‘geekism’ was meeting ‘Transport Management’ students at the Univeristy of Aston in Birmingham. One student had wall-papered his room with the Birmingham bus schedule. He had a telescope that he used to check whether the buses were running on time. Another had his room full of blown-up photographs of the aeroplane’s that he had flown on. I went on a day trip with three of them to Stratford upon Avon train station. We never left the train station. We wandered around photographing the trains. One lad went on to become an Air Traffic Controller. Another lad drives armoured gold bullion vans. His quirk was kissing cars, he would kiss any beautiful car he saw. Once on a very cold day he left the skin of his lips on a red Porche. Transport students were strange, very happy, individuals. Their enthusiasm was infectious. From them I developed the skill to love the circular, octagonal, windy 11c Birmingham city bus route. The Transport students understood. They lived in the house with mice. They didn’t mind because their love of Transport seemed to fill their hearts blinding them to many, personally insignificant, details of social conformity. In the picture above the 11c bus route is portrayed as an oblong with gently curved corners.
Can you feel the love?
Shall I go back into my hole now or later?
first geek experience
