NOTE FROM KIM:

Happy Thanksgiving! For those of you who don’t
celebrate this (mostly) American holiday,
you can read all about it here.

The Top 9 Things
Geeks Are Thankful For

9> Second Life doesn’t require you to have a first life.

8> Thanks to mandatory computer classes, the jocks and cheerleaders have to pretend to like them for a semester.

7> Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds. Because without OS wars, all geeks would have to fight about was whether the Borg could defeat the Death Star.

6> The shining example of Bill Gates gives geeks everywhere hope of being jealously hated instead of mockingly scorned.

5> 20 years from now, the high school football hero who just gave you a wedgie will be changing the oil in your Jaguar convertible.

4> Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine in a skin-tight body suit.

3> Parental control passwords that are easily guessed.

2> That –exp(pi*[0,-i]) = 1. Otherwise my imaginary girlfriend couldn’t exist.

and the Number 1 Thing Geeks Are Thankful For…

1> Thermally-driven oxidation of starches in avian flesh combine homogeneously with protein molecules to render highly palatable nutrients.

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Credits:

Selected from 40 submissions from 13 contributors.
This week’s list authors are:

James Knowles, Bellingham, WA — 1, 5
Nathan Sherman, Bellevue, WA — 2
Bruce Kane, Charlotte, NC — 3, 4
Larry Hollister, Concord, CA — 4, 6
Bill Livingston, Decatur, AL — 7
Brandon Hunt, Braintree, MA — 8, 9
Jim G. Phynn, Horsham, PA — 9
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator, Topic