People
UGH I feel so frustrated about many things, but can’t do anything.
OK, I will not talk about the people I want to rant about who are outside Geekhack. Often there is some politics involved, or at least money involved. Instead I will grouch about types of people on Geekhack whom we recognize.
I really dislike semi-illiterate people. There are many on Geekhack. If you are selling something, they will read your ad. However they can only read half your ad. So they only understand half of what is going on. I notice that these people (usually Westerners who supposedly use a Roman alphabet as a native language) have the greatest difficulty with Roman letters D, C, S or S, A or S, P.
They might be dyslexic, because they tend to read them as G, M, K or D, S, A and are astounded when I say I don’t have what they want.
I also dislike mathematically uneducated geeks. There are some programmers and engineers out there who have their degrees but can’t actually count without the aid of a calculator. So I will have prices like $2 per mod and $1 per 1u, nothing too complicated for an IQ70 geek’s brain. They’ll ask for 5 1u keys and 4 mods or something. When I come back with the final price quote which is $16 S and H included, I never hear from them again. The best is that someone will say he thought the price was $9 actually based on whatever calculation he did using his Linux calculator and $16 is too much for his tiny pocket because he just spent $1000 on a camera.
Now that is very irritating because when people want to buy something I need to go through my stuff to make sure I have it, and to take out the stuff for the potential buyer, and later I have to put it back after some weeks because that potential buyer has vanished. My time is wasted not making a sale on something that I am selling for very little money anyway.
It’s end of year, I’m going to throw away whatever I don’t sell. If anyone can think up what I could do with my sea of keycaps, do let me know. I am actually thinking of keeping these keycaps until the next Hell festival, and then I’ll throw them all into the Hell bins for people to make burnt offerings. Offering keycaps to the spirit world sounds very amusing.
Lastly, I am also pissed off at myself. But that's a story for another time.
