[geeks] It's a small f'ing world after all!

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:23:56AM -0800, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> One of the interesting things an acquaintance did in Silly Valley was
> keep a sign-in list at his parties-- you'd list your name and how you
> knew the host or someone else at the party. Then you draw the
> comparisons-- geeks run in many different circles, but not all geeks
> run in all circles:
> gamers (tabletop) --- gamers (pc) --- coders --- (SAs) --- renn-faire
> --- goth --- firearms --- treehuggers --- old hardware --- comics
> (sluggh) --- comics (goats) --- comics (UF) --- IRC --- fetishists --
> etc.... pick two or three for yourself, and two or three for friends. I
> think a Venn Diagram describes it best after all.

This lets you graph it pretty easily:

http://www.research.att.com/~north/cgi-bin/webdot.cgi

(used by LiveJournal, among others, to graph friends relationships)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX