Funny you should mention that.
For several years, the only time I noticed that the super bowl
had happened was first, during my morning commute, after the
game. There would be a rather large number of individuals (all
men, it seemed), lovingly going over each particle of activity,
never coming to any conclusion, but never getting tired of it,
either. It was the same thing coming home. However, this was
certainly better than them yelling, but either way, my earphones
went in and I worked remotely via cellular based VPN.
At work, football analogies abounded for a few days, which I
often needed to Google, having not paid any attention whatsoever
for the other 364 odd days. I eventually found that knowing the
terms was unnecessary because the people using them weren't
saying anything that a technologist needed to hear. I could
concentrate multi-tasking on something else.
On 1/24/22 2:42 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
As a person who spent the first 1/3 of his life being criticized for being interested in technology and furthering our understanding of the universe, rather than (for example) watching grown men chase a ball around in the grass, I'm sensitive to the word and it's most common connotation.