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You make some valid points here. However, lets start with the fact that
I'm married and have a daughter too. If I end up attending, my wife
would at least be with me and possibly my daughter. However, on the flip
side.. If I were single. Jeri and I are the same age. Truth be told,
she isn't that attractive. Maybe I should rephrase to say she isn't
TTHHAATT attractive (emphasis on the word "that").. When I say this I am
referring to the super hot sci-fi chicks you referenced in your last
email. She is, however, quite pretty. Enough I would certainly date
and/or marry her. But the main attraction is her mind. You don't find
many women with an analytical mind. Most are all about emotion and
couldn't care less how the computer, TV, microwave, telephone,
automobile, etc... how they work. As long as they do work. Most women
computer technicians I know learned the trade at school and although they
can troubleshoot basic issues, they are incapable of understanding the
computer on a deeper level. Not because they are dumb. It is because
they just don't care enough. They don't have that high curiosity. Don't
get me wrong, most MEN don't either. But there are a lot, lot more men
who understand things on this level than there are women. If you take
the metroplex I live in (Dallas, Fort Worth) and rounded up everybody in
the city that knew as much about computers as me, I think you'd have
maybe a thousand. Then of those, who know more than me.. maybe 500. Of
that 200, I doubt any of them are women. I'd be surprised if there were
one. However, I can say that Jeri knows more than me.
On a seperate note. I actually worshiped Jeri from the moment I learned
about the commodore one and DTV. Funny thing is, I thought "Jeri" was a
guy. I guess I should have realized the spelling was different. But I
know a lot of men named Jerry and being the nature of the field, assumed
Jeri Ellsworth was a man. Once the slashdot story came out I realized he
was a she. Then it became even more interesting. So even if Jeri was a
man, I'd still want to meet him/her because of the accomplishments. I'd
have lots of questions. and I'd try to bribe him/her into giving me a
DTV chip that I could mount on my own board! (snicker!) or a DTV-2
I've also talked a lot to my wife about Jeri. Not because I am trying to
make her jealous or anything. I have always wanted her to be more
interested in computers. She'd be happy if I took all my Commodore,
Amiga, Apple, and old Mac stuff to the dumpground. She doesn't care much
about her computer until it stops working correctly and I have to fix it.
She is kind of one of those femi-nazi type women. so I figure if I could
show her that another woman our age is really into computers like this,
maybe she could be too.
> I'm sorry to pick on you, but I've been wondering something.
>
> Reading older messages, I've found quite a bit of Jeri worship. While
> she's definitely worthy of worship for her technical and marketing
> prowess, I notice that a fair amount of the worship surrounds her
> physical attributes.
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