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I've heard a rumor about long haired guys:
All long haired guys are computer geeks and/or loves metal.
Myself i am a computer geek, and i love metal.
Then, how many here are computer geeks and/or loves metal?
Im certainly not a computer geek but I do like metal. Other long hair males may be neither pc geeks or metal heads. There are many artistic types with long hair.
Hee hee i like metal and im on the computer alot :D
I don't know if I'm a computer "geek", but I know my way around the computer (build my own). I love metal but also will enjoy almost anything else. (Thats' almost!!) I guess I'm stuck in the middle!
Keep on growin'
Bruce
Does having a CableTron NMAC 9000 Switch in the bed room make me geeky enough? 15 Blade chassis that's about 3 feet high. I keep it as a display piece. :-)
I am a huge computer geek. But not so much into metal.
guilty lol
i eat sleep listen to metal and play online games haha
I'm not a computer geek, but I'm big into console games. And I'm lukewarm to most metal anymore.
Massive computer geek, like metal but i'm more into Queen and 70's rock...
I sit alot in front of the computer, play games and such, and i do like metal also, but i fancy country and rockabilly much as well:)
Simon
I'm software engineer and I love metal. :-)
Those are two stereotypes that happen to overlap in some cases, but I think for the most part are unrelated. There's also some hippies here, quite a few musicians (not just metal) and a bunch of others that don't fit any stereotypes. There's also overlaps of everything I've mentioned.
This also isn't a very accurate sample. This is an internet message board. Of course you are going to find a lot of "computer geeks." It's like going to a chinese restaurant and polling to see who likes asian cuisine.
Metal is my favourite genre, and I'm a programmer. Go figure!
Matt
well i love metal, but not only metal. i like some grindcore and other types of music aswell. I'm not a computer geek, but I know my way around a few programs, but i would not call myself a geek; not that smart.
-animosity
Metal is my life, and the computer fuels my life. However, I also love walking in the woods and such.
Haha. Man. Quite a true stereotype it seems.
Those people are the people that grow their hair to fit into a society of people, like alot of people here on this site.
Other people have different ways though.
But yeah, for the most part, people with the long back length hair like all that!
When i have longer hair i still will dislike metal, but i like computers....ore into girls and football though.
Gee, I neither like metal music, nor am I a computer geek; but, I guess in your mind I still grow my hair, "to fit into a society of people"???
ROFL!!!!! If that was my *real* motivation for growing my hair long, I guarantee you I would have cut it YEARS AGO!!!!!!
- Ken
I like metal, wood and plastic.. My favorite metal is aluminum.
As far as computer geek? My favorite is the abacus, followed closely by the etch-a-sketch.
Long hair? Check. Computer Geek? Check. Metal? Nope. My favorite kind of music is classical.
Stormy
Well.. let's see. I think I'd called myself a computer geek jr. Not a full fledged geek... yet! Working on it, though.
As far as loving metal, I do. I work with lead, tin, and zinc almost every day. I'm a pipe organ technician and these are the materials that most pipes are made from. And yes, they are VERY heavy. [Not the heavy metal normally discussed here! ]
--Rick
I'm good at computer stuff and spend hours on it every day, and I'm a total metalhead, and I have long hair. :P
I'm in the same boat with Rick. I work with computers but I don't think I have attained the status of the Geek priesthood.
Geek priesthood... umm.. it does have a certain ring to it, doesn't it?! :)
Since I got laid off in high tech, I haven't used computers at work. In the pipe organ business, we don't use computers to do the work. I'm learning [self teaching with the help of a good friend] how to program in C. Should be fun!
--Rick
Hi Rick; i've never learned C and I wish I knew it. good luck with it. one of the guys i work with who has a lot more experience with our database once in conversation said something about inducting people, once they get enough experience, into the high database priesthood or something like that so that's where that came from : )
my problem is that i hardly ever spend any time on slash dot : )
I am not sure what it is meant by computer geeks, if it means being able to break into bank computers with ease and steal stuff or write complex programs just in an instant, that's not me. I do like to mess around with computer equipments and googling programs online to do what I need to do, but I can't write programs any more complex than making a window to display something or solve simple math problems. I am moderately competent in electronics but then again I never soldered a motherboard together from components, I only failed to assemble a telephone from kit in high school electronics class.. if it weren't for that stupid speakers that would break when heated too much and I had to solder some thin wire on it... I also build guitars, but I have not turned a driftwood into a working guitar because I don't have shop tools, but I sure could if I had them. So I just paint them for now..
I am getting ready to assemble a tube guitar amplifier from a kit and I hope I dont kill myself in the process.... 450 volt DC is nothing to laugh at.
I do love metal though, sure more than other crap styles like cRAP.
Hey, Rohtie, you new here or sump'n? I don't remember seein' ya ever post bufoure . . . anyway, yes, the scary rumor is true! I'm longhaired, on and off since high school, I'm just at the half a century mark today, so wish me "Have a Happy!", and (k)not ONLY am I a computer geek whose high end Mac Os 10 keeps him busy, busy, busy (I hail from a long line of artists; you'd be surprised at how easily centuries of oil-paints-slinging translates into computer technology!), but I'm a rocker, too, with a freakish three octave range singing voice (hello Rob Halford and Ronnie James Dio!). Thanks for posting!
Yours for computers, music, and longhaired camaraderie,
Quenyan (+:-)}
...welcome to the "Old Farts Club"
Bruce
Just for the record. Computer geek - yes, probably; metalhead - no.
Well, I'm good with computers (modest there) but I've never really been into raw programming, which is the classic stereotype. Likewise, although I like metal, I love classical music far more, and hence symphonic metal is probably my favorite. I also like Jazz :)
Haha, quite true, I'm both a compute geek (altought I'm not capable to hack the CIA website :p) ant a metal fan.
I'm a bit of a geek (got into ham radio in 1963, plus an EE degree in 1969) but all of my programming has been self-taught. As for music, I like the late 60s and early 70s stuff, what really rocked when I came of age.
The fact that longhairs often are geeks is why you all are at a site where we run our own show, rather than staring at some atrocity like a Yahoo Group. It has been said that longhairs are men who own themselves, and we also are of a mind to own our own web site.
I wrote about 80% of the software that runs this site and I maintain it, but if I were to vanish tomorrow, I have no fears that among us are plenty of qualified guys, and one of you would pick up right where I left off.
Bill
First time I've posted, but I felt this would be a good one to go into. This rumor is strangely true. I am going through the base Cisco networking classes right now and plan to go into Network Security in the long run. Not only that, but I am an avid fan of metal, and plan to go to Wacken at least a few times in my life. Funny how that works out... metal fans I can understand, but computer nerds... no idea.
I'm a technology journalist and have a degree in electronics and I use a computer a lot in line with my work and spend more time than I should on the Internet. Music wise, when I came of age in the late 60s and early 70s I enjoyed heavy metal and still do, though I'm more a fan of Pink Floyd's progressive rock.
Having said that, stereotyping long hairs with computer geeks is a far, far better than the stereotype of long hairs with gangsters, hooligans and druggies as was so, especially among the authorities in Malaysia and Singapore in the 60s and 70s but overall, I think stereotyping long hairs is wrong either way.
What is true in this part of the world is that long hairs are either musicians, artists or metal fans and there were lots more long hairs around in the 80s and 90s, which was the heyday of heavy metal.
Also, many long hairs are also manual workers, since the corporate envirironment generally frowns on it, so the profile of long hairs tends to be skewed to manual workers or independent small businessmen and workers in musical bars pubs.
However, with a growing information technology, graphic animation and multimedia development industry, you can find a number of long hairs in this sector, though they generally are in behind-the-scenes positions.
Whatever, I don't think stereotyping long hairs into any category is right.