Signs a geek friendship is actually counted as a friendship by non-geeks:

[azurelunatic]

If you can gently tease your other geek friend about some peculiarity of their favored item that you do not favor, when said peculiarity has just caused them some small grief, and they don't immediately blow up at you, you're probably friends by the standards of "normal" people.

Say, if a PC girl notices that her Apple-using friend has just gotten something with documentation on a floppy disk...

*grin, duck, run*

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[wibbble]

*laughs*

Well, I didn't immediately blow up because I was on the phone. ;o)

Not that I would anyway. :o)

I have a floppy disc drive. It's in a box. I hardly use it, or I'd leave it set up.

I mean, really, floppies are a pain in the arse. I have a CD-RW, I have a FireWire HD (the iPod), I have a USB flash memory drive, and a multiple format card reader.

I /can/ read floppies, but they're so archaic, I'd rather not. ;o>

It's just really weird to get documentation on a floppy. CDs are /cheaper/!

[azurelunatic]

The family primary computer back home in Alaska still has a 5 1/4" drive.

Legacy media. I still use floppies every now and then, and I have a bunch of old shit.

[wibbble]

Yup, legacy.

This is why I /have/ a floppy drive, but it's in a box.

Flash memory needs to replace floppies. Smaller, faster, and can hold a lot more.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Whats really sad is I didn't get this till much later after I read it. To be fair though I wasn't parsing alot of things today...too tired to think.

[azurelunatic]

hee, hee.

Have you seen "Mac Eye for the Windows Guy"?

[thette.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

[wibbble]

This?
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/502.html

[azurelunatic]

Yep.