Embracing my Geekiness

I've always been a geek, but it must be bigger part of me than I want to freely admit.

As I was reading my randomly delivered emails into one of my 4 active email accounts, on my Ubuntu powered hand-built desktop PC, I noticed an ad for a Geeky Christmas Gift for a 7 port USB device. Now, it shocked me to see this, as I have had one of these devices for a couple of years now (exactly the same) and I assumed that everyone would also have one. Why shouldn't they. It just makes common sense to have a device that takes one USB port and allows seven other devices to plug into it. OH Duh!


I had to show you what I 'm talking about, so I dived into the Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manager, ran a search for a screen shot application (not an app but an APPLICATION -sigh- I'm so over the Appleistocracy laziness of certain marketing ppl - whoops I meant to type people) loaded the application, reopened the email, figured out what keyboard sequence I needed to use, snapped the portion of the screen I needed to show you, the reader, noted where the internet friendly PNG file was automatically stored, clicked on the icon on the Blogger application that allows me to paste or upload an image file to my blog entry and voila! Ohhhhh      I'm a geek....aren't I :(

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