Geeksta Rap, Nerdcore Hip Hop, Filk – call it what you will (I call it Awesome Sauce). Nerdcore has become one of my favourite musical genres over the past year. Check out this gem that I just stumbled upon during one of my tumblr binges…

The geek is now damn cool :) Solid.

I jammed out to this track for the first time while walking to school the other day. I was like “YAH! YAH! SING IT BROTHER! OMG, SO TRUE! BWAHAHAHA!”

Like I’ve said before – I must look straight batty when I’ve got my headphones in.

Anyways, this song is so good that I put it on repeat for the walk home and got a little bit memorized. Productive, right?

Presenting “I’m not your personal I.T. Guy” by Devo Spice.


Shashashasha – do you love it???

I would like to take a moment to dedicate this song to all of the random people out there (don’t feel singled out – there are LOTS of you, trust) who send in emails asking me to “explain Twitter”; asking me how to adjust Facebook privacy settings; asking me how to “make a website”; asking me straight up if I can make a website for them.

Hey n00b – Let me f*cking Google that for you. That’s how I learned almost everything I know. Yes, I did do some programming in university, but I also built my first website when I was 14. It was hideous and had about a kajillion errors in the code, but I did it myself with the help of search engines, online tutorials and a whole lot of good ol’ fashioned right clickin’ source viewin’. I kept playing, reading, learning, and eventually… I got better at it. If I could figure out how to set up a mySQL database before I was old enough to drive a car, you should be able to change your password on Twitter by yourself… right? Or maybe not. Maybe I’m just a big ol’ jerk for thinking this way. keeheehee…

(Family members and homies, please take note – these comments are directed towards the randos. In other words, yes Mom, I will still burn your DVDs for you, and yes, friends, I will continue to guide you through the process of setting up your own blogs.)

I could rant on about this for a very long time, but I’ll spare you and just bask in my own self righteous smugness while you read the lyrics to Devo Spice’s phat little ditty:

I’m not your personal I.T. Guy

CHORUS : Click on help. (Call someone else!)
Or figure out how to freakin’ (Google it yourself!) (4 times)

I’m not your damn personal IT guy
I get no peace but at least now I see why
You ask me about computers, apparently I’m
The only person who knows how to turn the damn things on

Oh look, you can’t configure your Outlook again
Well maybe you should write the settings down, my friend
But that might require a little effort from you
And Mr. Big Shot has more important things to do
It’s fine if I have to explain it one time
But we’re at number 29 and I’m losing my mind
So I’ll just drop everything, deadlines be damned
And explain again though I know you’ll never understand
Close all of those windows, let’s begin
Click on this, click on that, now put your password in
See, you don’t need to be a total wiz
No, I don’t know what your password is

(chorus)

Why are your problems automatically mine
No, it’s fine, I’ve nothing better to do with my time
But it’s not like I ask you every day for help
When I make a dookie and I can’t wipe myself
So what were you trying to do when the error appeared?
Then I curse, ’cause it’s even worse than I feared
I see your PC is an ancient jalopy
And you’re trying to copy a DVD onto a floppy
First of all, where’d you even get a floppy disk?
‘Cause really, I didn’t think those things still exist
Secondly, I don’t want to be a spoil sport
But that’s an ethernet cable, that’s a USB port
If you buy something new and don’t know how to hook it up
It doesn’t make you less of a man to look it up
You claim you’re not an idiot, well prove me wrong
And stop giving me more material for this song

(chorus)

*beep*
“Hey Tom. I was wondering if you could help me out.
(Oh, here we go.)
I picked up a PC on ebay and got a great deal.
(Uh-huh.)
It’s a Pentium “eye-eye” with 16 “M.B.” of “R.A.M.”, whatever that is, and it’s running at 120 “M.H.Z.”
Is that fast? And I want to see about installing Windows 7 on it. Can you help me out with that?
(Bill Gates couldn’t help you do that.)
Anyway I got a great deal on it.
(No, you got ripped off.)
So I bought some songs from the Windows Media store and I can’t get them onto my iPhone.
(Of course.)
I was wondering if you could help me with that. Also I’m working with some pictures I took. I downloaded PhotoShop from this web site I found
(Oh no.)
and I can’t find the red-eye reduction button. Do you know where it is? Oh, and while I was on that web site I got an alert that my PC was infected with a virus, so I clicked on it and downloaded a bunch of software.
(You didn’t!)
So I should be protected now, but my PC seems to be running awfully slow all of a sudden.
(Well yeah, NOW you’re infected.)
I was wondering if you could give me a hand with that. Give me a call when you get this. (I most certainly will not!)
Thanks, Tom. Bye!

It happens every day, and I can’t get away
‘Cause they follow me around like a dog who wants to play
I know when my phone rings my day will be wrecked
When my boss says “Tom, can I see you for a sec?”
A second rapidly becomes an hour and a half
I would laugh, but I’m not part of the IT staff
So I don’t know what I’m doing, I just click around and curse
And pray to various gods that I don’t make the problem worse
Funny how I said before this day was gonna drag
Now I’m workin’ quick ’cause his cologne is making me gag
He says I have to fix it and it can’t wait till later
And somehow it’s my fault he never backed up his data
There’s still a couple quirks and it’s making me berzerker
Dammit Jim, I’m a Mac, not a miracle worker
And when I finally fix every problem he ever had
My uncle calls asking ’bout his son’s Leap Pad

(chorus) “

You can download the track for free at The Fump.

/basking

Ahhhh culture. Identity. Humans… I’m getting sleepy, don’t mind my brain vomit.

I think I’ll start to do a bit more research into this subculture. Like, beyond compulsively downloading and LOLing at singles. I’ll be producing a radio piece about it soon :) Oooh, maybe I can even host a screening of Nerdcore Rising as part of the project! I’ve been wanting to do that forever!

On a related note, I’ll also be writing a feature article on the big business of nerd merch for one of my elective classes (forthcoming). That’s going to be fun to write – and dangerous for my bank account.

I guess I really AM on the geek beat, eh? Happens to the best of us, I suppose. They say that journalists tend to gravitate towards what they know and what they’re interested in. I’m seeing a lot of this at J-school among my classmates already.

I guess it’s better to be known as the geeky tech girl than say, the middle eastern conflicts girl or the municipal politics girl, right?

Ideally, I’d be the go-to “hilarious interviewer of famous people / front row fashion show correspondent / professional television watching and frozen yogurt eating” girl. Maybe someday :)

Now, check out this sweet geeky ink if you please. I’ve always said I’d never go there, but who knows? Maybe when I mark a milestone or something I’ll shell out for a very subtle, not-visible-when-clothed version of something like this…

And I’ve always loved this…

OWIE!

I need to crashhhhh, jayze!

It’s been a long day. I worked on my trucker ladies documentary all morning, had class this afternoon, went to see Andrew Keen speak after school (effing suhWEET, btw – dedicated blog post on said talk forthcoming, if I can find the time), went back to the studio to do some more work, and then shuffled on home and well… here I am.

Gorgeous weather out there though, eh? I love me some pre-spring springyness :)

Something else fan-fecking-tastic? I’m winning the latest AXE gig challenge! Check it ootskis and enter it yourself, why don’t cha?

Eeee! :) This makes me restoopulous happy. If I stay in 1st place until the end of March, I’ll win something super super awesome. Something that’s almost as awesome as Nate Black.

Pyaw!

Night night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite, chugabeerhavesexwitheverybody, Vote Lauren for AXE, Don’t be a fool – stay in school.

<3 L

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