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Okay, I'm <b>dying</b> over here. Just for fun a month ago,
I saw a posting on a contest for the "Sexiest Geek Alive."
Giggling, I <a href="http://www.geekandguru.com/sexygeek/sexygeek.html">went
to their page</a> and <a href="http://www.geekandguru.com/sexygeek/geekapp.html">filled out an application</a>. I laughed and didn't think about it again.
<p>
Then on February 20th, I got <a href="sexygeek-letter1.php3">this letter</a>,
which began with:
<blockquote>
<code>
Congratulations! Out of 16,709 entrants to the "Sexiest Geek Alive Contest,"
you have been selected to be one of the Top 500 Sexiest Geeks. We had a
difficult time choosing among the 8,742 men and 7,967 women who filled out
our questionnaire...
</code>
</blockquote>
I laughed and sent the message to some of my friends and mentioned it
on <a href="../about/update.php3">my mailing list</a>. Two days later I was notified:
<blockquote>
<code>
A reporter from Industry Standard may be contacting you about the Geek
contest. We're narrowing the Top 500 down to a hundred and she wanted to
interview my favorites. I added you to that list because I had read your
<a href="http://www.playboy.com/oncampus/feature/mp3/weekly1.html">Playboy Online feature</a>
and told her you were an "MP3 warrior."
</code>
</blockquote>
I started to wonder...sure enough, the next day (today; the 23rd),
I received the
<A href="sexygeek-letter2.php3">following letter</a>, beginning with:
<blockquote>
<code>
Congratulations again! You have made it on to the Top 100 of the Sexiest
Geeks Alive.
</code>
</blockquote>
I'm not sure what to do at this point; I think it's hysterically funny,
but am not quite sure what to make of the whole ordeal. I'll post more
information here as it comes in...
<p>
<font color=red><b>UPDATE</b></font> -- Uh oh. I just got the
<a href="sexygeek-letter3.php3">following letter</a>,
whose first paragraph reads:
<blockquote>
<code>
Guess what? You've made it to the Sexiest Geek Alive Top 24!
</code>
</blockquote>
I'm a little nervous now. It was pure hysterics at being part of an
anonymous top 500, but now it's starting to get personal; if I am
selected for the next round, it looks like they want me to go down
to the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) festival in Texas mid-March. The
main problem with that is that I have finals at about that time!
Aie! Something in me hopes I don't make it any further...
<p>
<font color=red><b>UPDATE</b></font> (@4:37pm 2/25/00) I've dropped
out of the contest for personal reasons and while I was told that I
had made it to the next round (top 12), I would have had to have gone
to Texas in the middle of finals week.
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