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so this morning i took an earlier train blah blah, so i didn’t get to see my regulars. no biggie. so as i was getting up to get off the train, a girl stood up a couple rows in front of me. as she turned around, i noticed that she had ‘dasein’ tattooed on the back of her neck.

i was like–hey i know that name–wait, isn’t that…yeah–it is-that’s fucking heidegger. now i don’t know shit about shit, but she didn’t look german, per se–so i’m thinking the only way an american gets introduced to the word dasein is through good ole marty. man, that’s a fucking statement getting that shit tattoo’d on your, let alone on your neck . perhaps i should have asked her, but christ, what would i say if she said ‘yes, i LUV heidegger’ –it’s a slippery slope-or a false ground, or a glass house, or something to be judging the coolness of someone’s tattoo. but man. i’ve heard of geek tattoos, people getting 404 errors and unix code and shit, but man philosophy terms is pretty hard core.

it did make me think i should get “alt+e,s,u” incorporated in to my next one. for the uninformed, those are the key strokes for pasting unformatted unicode text into pretty much any MS office application–(credit for that one goes soley to jimmy). “why is paste unformatted text?” well at the most root level it is my job. you grab text from a websheet or another document, or ppt or whatever, and you want to put it somewhere else, excep’t it’s broke in to whacky bullets or in garamond or something. well when you paste–alt, e,s,u. i’m not exaggerating that it basically pays my mortgage. but i’m getting off on a tangent.

well nto really i don’t think i have much else to say. to steal from wvsr.com, i’ll end with a question: what nerdy thing would you get tattoo’d, if you were gonna get a nerdy tattoo?