Geek woman news story of possible interest...

JoeHill joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Sat Sep 22 18:04:31 UTC 2007


Jamon Camisso wrote: 

> On September 21, 2007 09:35:50 pm Glen Strom wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:57:56 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:  
> > >Ran across the following bit about Star Simpson, a
> > >student at MIT arrested in essence for acting like a
> > >geek:  
> >
> > I saw the article at the Toronto Star website. The first thing I
> > thought was, how can smart people be so damn stupid. And it sounds
> > like she really doesn't see the problem.
> >
> > It reminds me of an expression I heard years ago: book-smart and
> > life-dumb.  
> 
> I wonder about that. Seems like there's some contextual information missing 
> from the whole story.
> 
> That, and I'll pose the question: what is wrong with what she did? Were it
> the street, why would the cops have been more or less justified in their
> reaction since the law is the law regardless of location?
> 
> Besides, someone's already patented and is working on clothes with integrated 
> lcd/leds, so in a year or two once we're all walking advertisements it'll be 
> like she was a pioneer and everyone will be walking around airports with lite 
> brite clothes.

First they came for the people wearing circuit boards, but I said nothing
because I did not wear circuit boards... ;)

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