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The Little Prince is one of my all-time favourite Books

So I wanted to make a Geeky Version of this Book… Maybe Some more Geeks and ppl would find this fun and decide to go read the original work ( i would recommend reading in french )

Chapter I

Once when I was Eleven Years Old I Read a Magnificant Story on the Internet About a Duck Named “Ping” . The Book is Called “The Story About Ping”.

Here is a Link to the Book and to its Review on Slashdot.
Book (pdf)
Slashdot Review

In the Book it Said : ” All Day they would Hunt for Snails and Little Fishes and Other Pleasant Things to Eat” on the Yangtze River.
I Pondered Deeply, then, Over the Adventures that One Could Have on Yangtze River and After Some Work with Photoshop I Succeeded in Making my First Photoshoped Drawing. My Drawing Number One. It Looked Like this

I Showed My Masterpiece to the Grown-ups, and Asked them whether the Drawing Frightened them.

But they answered: “Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?”

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting a duck. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:

The grown-ups Response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to Logo Programming,math and physics.
That is why, at the age of eleven, i gave up what might have been a magnificent career in Digital Art. i had been disheartened by the fealure of my drawing number one and my drawing number two. grown ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and
forever explaining things to them.
So I chose another profession, and learned to program computers and engineer complex database systems. i have made all kind of scripts, and it is true that math has been very useful to me. at a glance i can calculate all the possible scenarios my algorithm could go through. if one wants to elaborate an advanced test scenario, such knowledge is valuable.

in the course of this life i have had a great many encouters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequences.
i have lived a great deal among grown-ups. i have seen them intimately, close at hand. and that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
whenever i met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, i tried the experiment of sending him my drawing number one, which i have always kept on my hdd or in my email account. i would try to find out, so , if this was a person of true understanding. but, whoever it was, he,or she, would always say:

“That is a hat.”

then i would never talk to that person about ping the duck and the adventures on the Yangtsee river. i would bring myself down to his level.
i would talk to him about operating systems, new technologies, benchmarks. and the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.

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* Why “The Story About Ping” ? : well It’s a timeless geek humor classic.

* What is in the “boa” ? : it is the photoshop classic duck, the msn default avatar, i was not able to resist putting a duck inside the boa, besides i was pondering on the things the ducks eat, well they can also get eaten, no? ( i ponder in a reversed manner).

Characters in this Comic are Courtesy of xkcd

www.zerohoursleep.com always has a good read in those lonely sleepless nights
Hope You Enjoy it as much as i do

beside that.. without them things would be boring and dull.. no stories to tell, no movies to make
and who do you think history will remember from our era ?
ohh.. and one more thing … Both are HOT ! or is it just me that thinks that

oh..well, isn’t the internet as well an amazing unlimited mysterious magical infinite place where we somehow “exist”
and at least both have nice representation pics that can get me daydreaming

Characters in this Comic are Courtesy of xkcd
the representation of the internet is for real and can be found here

Characters in this Comic are Courtesy of xkcd

WouhouW the very First LifeGeeked Meeting took place !

It was a closed meeting for contributors, people helping around and couple of close geeky friends

the only reason it was a closed meeting is that it really takes resources, time and planning to do a good open meeting.

11 Geeks were invited ( read in decimal plz, not binary :P), 9 managed to make it … quite impressive no ? 9 Geeks Managing to Get away from computers at the same time to attend something that can be called a social event

so it was

• 7arami
• Battikh
• Elly
• Farah
• Insomiac
• Karim
• mir
• Nuclearcat
• Padre

I Really wished that Antoine,Badi,Nabil,Samer could attend… but well,Life is Buggy!

Personally I Enjoyed the Meeting

Maybe it was seeing Geeky Friends (some i haven’t seen in a while, some i have terribly missed, some i am never bored of… )

Maybe it was Having Geeky Conversations while Everyone around the table Finding the conversation really Normal and Interesting as opposed to Not Following, Staring with eyes wide open and Jaw Dropped

Maybe it was going to VISP, Checking the Server Room, watching Insomiac Crack VISP Encryption or Nuclearcat sneak past the alarm system in 20 sec (James Bond Style)

Well… I Guess Geeky Friends and Geeky Activities have that effect on me… who Knew !

and.. OoOoPs… we forgot to take a pic… Geeks !

Inspired by Elly

Characters in this Comic are Curtosey of xkcd