wabmester
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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I look on-and-off for volunteer opportunities. Not because I am a sweetheart who feels a debt to society, but helping people makes me feel good, and sometimes I find good company to hang with.
Often, I quickly get disillusioned by politics, weird agendas, or hard-to-deal-with personalities.
This weekend, I went to check out our local robotics club. Oooh, neat gadgets all over the place. A room filled with geeks!
Once I fended off the head geek who couldn't stop talking about the crossbar supercomputer and dataflow language he invented as a younger geek, I helped a super-smart 12 year-old hack a C program, cross-compile it, download the new firmware to his self-built bot, and watched it go. He was seriously jazzed, emitting monotone utterances of delight.
Later in the day, some 8-year-old corrected me. Massive blue stars aren't massive due to high density, it's their high *volume* that makes them massive. He was right.
I think I found my spot.
Often, I quickly get disillusioned by politics, weird agendas, or hard-to-deal-with personalities.
This weekend, I went to check out our local robotics club. Oooh, neat gadgets all over the place. A room filled with geeks!
Once I fended off the head geek who couldn't stop talking about the crossbar supercomputer and dataflow language he invented as a younger geek, I helped a super-smart 12 year-old hack a C program, cross-compile it, download the new firmware to his self-built bot, and watched it go. He was seriously jazzed, emitting monotone utterances of delight.
Later in the day, some 8-year-old corrected me. Massive blue stars aren't massive due to high density, it's their high *volume* that makes them massive. He was right.
I think I found my spot.