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Bjørn

Sat Jun 24 2006, 12:56AM

Registered Member #27 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
Location: Hyperborea
Posts: 2058

The Bill and Steve analogy fails here:
Tesla Coils <> Practical computer software

Bill saw something practical, sold it before it existed then managed to create it in time. Tesla Coils have a negative value for Steve (in the sense he is talking about) because it drains resources instead of creating them.

Feis competitions, dog shows and morris dancing would have been far more effective hobbies.

Quantum Singularity

Sat Jun 24 2006, 10:51PM

Registered Member #158 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 09:53PM
Location: Central Ohio
Posts: 282

What I have come to beleive is that if you have to change yourself for a women then its not going to work anyhow. Eventually you will revert to your original hobbies and things you like to do. However, if your not looking to get very serious (if you know what I mean) I would probably not mention all the HV hobbies lol.

I must admit that when I first met my wife I didnt mention much about all my HV stuff but she new I was atleast a computer geek. I ended up not doing anyhting with any of my HV projects for a few years... until this year I am trying to get back into it with some induction launchers and quarter shrinker I am building. Its probably been since around 2000-2001 since I had any HV projects out.

Steve Conner

Sun Jun 25 2006, 12:17AM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706

Bjoern, I'm sure you get Morris dancing and dog breeding nerds too.

I guess you are right about the draining resources thing. It always cost me a few hundred pounds to go to a UK Teslathon by the time I'd paid for fuel, food, and accommodation, and I'm always dead tired after driving 600 miles in my crappy old car. :-/

In return for my investment, I got an ego boost from a bunch of fellow geeks saying "Woo your coils are cool." I also got a nice feeling from knowing that I contributed something to the hobby electronics community.

Now that's all very well, but I started to perceive the value of those things as being less. Dan McCauley and Steve Ward are doing a much better job of bringing SSTC projects to the community than I ever did. My own SSTC designs were all experimental, and now I think about it, they weren't really suited to the average builder. If I tried to write a book like Dan's, I bet nobody would understand it, and I would sell about one copy.

I've also been putting a lot of the energy that went to coiling, into the band that I joined last fall. It's been great fun, and I guess a good way to "Improve social skills" and all that crap.

And, whenever we travel to gigs, the promoters pay our travelling expenses, and often give us a cut of the ticket sales and free beer.

I don't mean to seem ungrateful to any of the UK Teslathon organizers by saying this. They are all great guys, and a teslathon is a totally different financial ball game to a gig where you can have 100 people turn up who all paid $5 to get in and will spend at least $10 each on drink. (We played at one big charity gig with 4 other bands, where the bar take was $5000.)

Hey, maybe we should organize a UK NerdFest with tesla coiling, battle bots, DJs and a huge LAN party, and sell tickets

Bennem

Sun Jun 25 2006, 10:22AM

Registered Member #154 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:28PM
Location: Westmidlands, UK
Posts: 260

Hi Steve,
Speaking as one of those who said "woo your coils are cool"
you will be sadly missed at the UK Teslathons!
I know from my point of view, its one of the reasons i like to go to one, to see one of your coils in action!
But i understand how you feel, at least from the 'cost' point of view.
Good luck with the band thing!

EEYORE

Sun Jun 25 2006, 07:06PM

Registered Member #99 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:10PM
Location: florida, usa
Posts: 637

My current GF of over 3.5 years now, loves that I am into so much"nerd" stuff...And shes a hot colombian woman!Ive never had girls turned off by my "nerd" stuff. They all say that intelligence is a turn on for them.(And I dont talk to ugly girls either

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Its all about how you handle yourself. You need a bit of swager and confidence. And I would never change myself for a girl...Well, I never need too anyways cuz ima hotty

, I know, Im a bit conceited, but in this day and age, you got to be!
I always act like I could care less about "getting some", and then the girls just line up!(they lose their power when you do that)
-Matt

Desmogod

Mon Jun 26 2006, 01:10AM

Registered Member #139 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 11:01AM
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 358

mattrg2 wrote ...

.And I would never change myself for a girl...Well, I never need too anyways cuz ima hotty

, I know, Im a bit conceited.

I would say conceited is a bit of an understatement....

Heiders

Mon Jun 26 2006, 05:52AM

Registered Member #268 Joined: Tue Feb 28 2006, 02:44AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 48

I know we geeky females are few and far between, but we are out there. I'm sorry I don't have better advice on where to look, I met Nick in high school. I cracked a dumb joke and he couldn't respond, we ended up seeing each other in the halls and spending a lot of time together.

What do you guys do aside from job/college/university? Clubs, sports, interest classes, even just going to the pool for a swim can help you meet people. You can say "Hi" and if you run out of words then you can continue swimming or whatever.

The good thing is that if you find a nerdy girl, we usually hang around for a long time. None of this "messing around" BS. And awesome for you for getting into this band and actually getting gigs! Do you guys have a cd or sample music online for us? (I promise to say "woo your music is cool"

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ragnar

Mon Jun 26 2006, 08:09AM

Registered Member #63 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:18AM
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I just talked to a very pretty gurl not less then an hour ago... she could easily have been twice my age (but looked very good for it! hehe)... and the discussion about fuel etc was quite smooth. Didn't want to ruin it by asking for her email/phone# though. She wasn't married though! ^^

Heiders

Tue Jun 27 2006, 03:36AM

Registered Member #268 Joined: Tue Feb 28 2006, 02:44AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 48

You're only 17 BP! I guess that makes the "twice your age" less of a difference then... Good luck on that.
*weirded out anyway*

ragnar

Tue Jun 27 2006, 04:41AM

Registered Member #63 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:18AM
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Tee hee... actually, I have a bad reputation for wooing the older women. See, I've always had great affinity for older gurls (i.e. < 25y/o) because they're mature, and if you're, lucky they've come to terms with themselves, the world, and what they want, what they like etc.

But even over the internet, I'm weirding you out! It's no good... I seem to have a knack for being odd and/or freaking gurls out. I often wonder if it's because I'm too down-to-earth (yeah, right, hehe), talk too much about food/cooking, am too focussed on my own work, or something else altogether.

Oh, I just realised I the 'talking about fuel' in my last post was totally out of context - see, that pretty gurl worked at a car dealership, and we briefly touched on fuel economy, rising prices, how she gets to work, etc. =P

So what IS it that freaks all my might-be gurlfriends out?

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