by | February 7, 2011 · 1:42 pm
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root access by Guy Yasko

I like my cubicle. I have my sunshine, my tea cup and my figurines:
Jabba the Hutt, Chewbacca — all the good ones.

But what i really like is logging in. Push the button, type, return,
enter the circle. I can do things. I’m wanted. I belong.

Then i think i could do more, be further in. I want more.
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12 responses to “root access by Guy Yasko”

  1. Matt Potter
    February 12, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    Oh oh oh … I smiled at this … and then thought, should I be smiling? Ha ha … well, that was my reaction. A nerd happy in his nerd-dom. An there is a bit of nerd in most of us, so it’s quite universal. And I enjoyed the laugh.

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  2. guy
    February 13, 2011 at 5:49 am

    It’s perfectly OK to laugh. Glad you did.

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  3. timeout2
    February 13, 2011 at 10:19 am

    I’m not laughing – and that just goes to prove that every reader comes from a different place. I know this guy. His insularity is sad and a bit scary. The uppercase “I’ getting smaller and smaller and finally just lowercase “i.” I am totally impressed that you did so much with so few words. Doris

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    • guy
      February 14, 2011 at 4:15 pm

      To tell the truth, that’s a bit how i read it. He — probably a he — gets off on hieararchies of inclusion and access.

      Thanks for the read and feedback, Doris.

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  4. Melissa McEwen
    February 15, 2011 at 6:29 am

    I didn’t see it as a bad thing, at first. I saw him feeling safe in his own little world with his figurines and logging in. He is home there. But by the end, I see, that he will be consumed by it and only know this “world.”

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  5. susan
    February 16, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    Hits hard with both fear and longing for that need to belong. Nice.

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  6. LindaSW
    February 16, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    this is so powerful. susan nailed my reaction. you got so much in such a small space. peace…

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  7. Kelly
    February 17, 2011 at 3:13 am

    all the good ones….was it a coincidence that the common denominator might be how far from human they are? tension in nerdom, I think, stasis and movement both shaped by character

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  8. Robert Vaughan
    February 17, 2011 at 5:00 am

    I think you are the wizard of the least words used each week. Masterful.

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