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Hmm.. where is my bobble head avatar? Where is the hungry crowd of crazy groupies? Where are my keynote speeches? Where is my VIP pass to GUADEC? Oh reality, that shit ain't gonna happen... What planet sites are gonna list me?... Where is my Ruby code at?

Nah, no Starbucks drinking, no flying around the country on some geek fantasy trip. None of that shit for me, I live in the real world... yeah the one that uses Windows. That shit ain't gonna change, you wanna work at Novell? Redhat? Or some other *BIG* company that has a linux office in the basement next to the sewer tanks and pretends to support your open source cause? You wanna fly around and pretend like you are some hotshot because you get paid to go to GUADEC and blog half the day on company time? You wanna get paid to sit in an IRC channel about your companies big shot open source project? You want 13 year old groupies that idolize you? Go for it. Pretend you are some super smart geek fanboy with your super cool Rails solution. You want to live in big cities and take public transportation to work and protest the big gas guzzling SUV's? Go for it. You wanna support Google's Summer of Code that disallows anyone that is not a *student*? Go for it... Life is not the sum of all your geek pleasures, life is not a Linux operating system. Despite popular belief there are smart people that aren't computer literate.

I'm kinda sick and tired of this new hippy geek generation with their college degrees and their uber attitudes, their superficial ego's and their magnetic attraction to planet.* sites. This new aggregation of supposed *smart* people with their *smart* solutions and their *so called* cool life in the open source community. They tell us about it in their blogs, they put pictures about their cool life on flickr, they brag about their Web 2.0 existance and preach the gospel on AJAX. Yeah you know who I'm talking about, I don't need to post any names or any websites or any channels on freenode. It's fucking obvious as hell.

Where is my iBook with my oh so special Textmate? Where are all my screencasts, podcasts and seminars on all my open source innovations? I am the community, I contribute, I am not replaceable, I am somebody. Look in the mirror.

Life isn't about your LUG and the bazillion cracker jack cookie cutter geekoids you trained in bash scripting, it's not about your presence in the Rails community or your evangelical rhetoric on how Textmate is the new Khaki (OH MY NEW INTEL MAC IS ZEN), it has nothing to do with your involvement in the Gnome desktop and your upstream patches to Ubuntu. When you're dead nobody will give one shit about your *hacking* on Firefox or your love affair and secret coding binges on the Linux kernel. Mom, FF took one more point in the browser market share, I think we are gonna push 12% next year, mark my words! w00t!! Yeah, this is the Open Sores breakout year.

Guido, please save me, your precious Python is the blood that runs through my open sores blood. Can I pretty please be a coder at Google like you? Can I be on your planet site too? I wanna be elite like you open source paid programmers... Google is zen, Google is the mother of all geeks, Google is the foundation of Life.

Blah, meh... Did somebody mention Mark Shuttleworth? Or maybe Miguel de Mono? Nah... I live in the real world, I pay bills and have kids to raise. The only open sores coding I do is for fun, not profit. I'm not a geek bobble head on planet.fuck.org, I'm not good enough, I can't find my college degree (must have gotten lost in the mounds of open sores code I've written)... No Jolt Cola awards on my desk, no Golden Code awards on my *ME* wall. I'm just an ordinary person with an ordinary job that lives in the real world, yeah the one that uses Windows.

So if you are bitching about your plane ride to GUADEC arriving two hours late and you missed your keynote speech then you can rightly kiss my ass. After all you are exactly the person I am referring to in this post. Have a wonderful open sores day, drink that FLOSS coffee for me and have a wonderful existance in your fantasy world.

This post was edited by majic on Oct 12, 2006.