[CALUG] Way Off-Topic: was Re: Linux TV show

[Rajiv Gunja]

I agree with you Rob. Another example would be the video podcast by a woman
for about 5 to 6 minutes Caly Lewis or something has become so popular that
Apple and other hardware vendors sends her free stuff to test and share her
thoughts on her video podcast. Last time I saw her podcast (about a year
ago), she had some kind of discount on "godaddy.com" when we registered a
domain.

Having a woman present will catch a nerd's/geek's eye, but to keep the
nerd/geek/viewer glued to the TV / web TV for 20 minutes would need a
nerdy/geeky-tech savvy-gadget loving-fairly good looking.

Of course presentation, format, products and content plays a very important
role.

Some how I could not stand Morgan, she seemed more like a air-head to me. I
rather enjoyed Sumi Das's reports as she made her reports more personal than
reading stuff out from a paper.

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com


2008/12/3 Rob Payne <inagada.davita at gmail.com>

> Haroon Khalid wrote:
> > Some dude on the gentoo forum just said I would need a hot girl or else
> > nobody would want to watch a couple of nerds talking.
>
> As the old TechTV showed us (before they destroyed it), the girl does
> not necessarily have to be hot, only nerd-hot, you know - "she's a nerd
> and smart, and therefore, more hot than she would be if she was being
> judged based on looks alone" (I'm thinking of Morgan Webb, who used to
> be the geeky frumpy girl.  I will grant that she has improved her look
> quite a bit with an extreme makeover in style.).  Similar to what a
> current or former military type might describe as "Army hot."  A friend
> overheard a Marine officer on a flight back to the US from Iraq speaking
> to a female, asking, "How does it feel to be ugly again?"
>
> Googling around trying to remember Morgan's name brought me to a
> relevant, and point-reinforcing web site featuring some guy pining over
> the nerd girls of TechTV.
> http://www.chefelf.com/techtv-ladies.shtml
>
> Rob
>
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