Michael – I have now and again taken a walk on the nerd side in my life, and am sympathetic to the way of the geek. I know what you mean when you talk about following geek thought processes (like thinking about creative types, etc). Still it is almost comical to read how the geek poster swerves from “Wow! She’s hot,” to estimating the size of the population of hot, smart brown girls (as opposed to getting the phone number of the hot babe or going home and fantasizing about hot babes).

Some of his musings seem interestingly wrong headed, like the fantasy of “50-100 generations of brainy, high-status males snatching up the prettiest girls in the area.” This just seems to be a mis-reading of history and human nature (see, for example, the articles about the possible number of descendents of Genghis Khan). Still, mildly interesting speculation, even if it is meandering down a blind alley.

As to what it’s like to be married to a geek, a female friend of mine observed, very cynically, that to women all men are geeks.

"Curry-n-Rice Girl" was funny. I wouldn’t be surprised to see it expanded into a feature-length movie somewhere along the way.

Posted by: Alec on August 19, 2006 7:17 AM

curry-n-rice girl is really, really funny. I sort of got the whole indian kids growing up in the west making fun of parents and shaadi.com, but in a gentle, loving way.

Ahhh, shaadi.com. You do know parents post profiles without kids even knowing which leads to some hilarity.

Posted by: MD on August 23, 2006 9:35 PM

Shaadi.com is wild, tks for pointing that out. Everything I know - or think I know -- about Indian family life comes from a dozen Satyajit Ray movies, a half-a-dozen Bollywood movies, "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle," some visits to blogs, and the coaching you're passing along to me. So thanks for it! Anyway, I'm gathering that the guilt-and-expectations thing is pretty ferocious. Fair?

Posted by: Michael Blowhard on August 24, 2006 12:48 AM






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