Geek Cruise.

January 20, 2005 11:48 AM

Nothing like spending time on the beach... with your laptop. (.mov trailer)
Geeks On Board is a documentary about a unique phenomenon, a one-week cruise designed for people who have an extraordinary relationship with their computers.
posted by jba (9 comments total)

I like how the geekcruises website has a section on "convincing your spouse".
posted by stupidcomputernickname at 12:00 PM on January 20, 2005

I always wanted to go on one of those Geek Cruises - a hardcore programming one, not Mac or Photoshop. I figure as a basically-kinda-cute, if plump and aging, coder grrl, I would be in a statistical minority and probably kinda popular with the straight males onboard. And I'd maybe learn something about software development too.
posted by matildaben at 12:01 PM on January 20, 2005

I'm sold. When's the boat leave?

Matildaben, come hop on my boat, we'll drive them insane.
posted by erisfree at 12:04 PM on January 20, 2005

matildaben, I admire your bravery.
posted by odinsdream at 12:05 PM on January 20, 2005

"convincing your spouse".

I know someone who went on a Geek Cruise for her honeymoon ... she's an IT marketing executive and he's a Linux developer so no problem there.
posted by terrier319 at 12:11 PM on January 20, 2005

I have a friend who went on the geekcruise, he IM:ed me from it that he had just met Larry Wall and wanted to show him my (Perl code) tattoo "send me a .jpg now". well I thought it was fun.. it's like, I met Larry Wall, by proxy.
posted by dabitch at 12:23 PM on January 20, 2005

odinsdream, I think some geek guys are cute, and I know how to fight off the ones I'm not interested in.
posted by matildaben at 12:25 PM on January 20, 2005

It's the "fighting off" that I admire, matildaben ;-)
posted by odinsdream at 12:35 PM on January 20, 2005

Is being chubby a requirement for being a geek (Pogue excepted)?
posted by letitrain at 1:38 PM on January 20, 2005