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= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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How Do They Do it? [Part II in the series]
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"Nerds Are Artists Too"
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"Man, I wish I could do that," was all that was going through my
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mind as I listened to my car stereo do an injustice to some vintage Eddie
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Van Halen guitar on the radio. "He plays the guitar like it's part of his
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body," I thought as my car floated down the road. I began to wonder what
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it would be like to be a musician like that. At first, I thought it must
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be tough to crank out those notes and near impossible to do the solos from
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the cuff, but then I realized something. Not only does it sound natural
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when most professionals play music, it looks natural, it is natural! Most
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of these guys have been playing their instruments for almost as long as I
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have been using a computer. When they sit down to play, they just do it,
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their fingers and bodies are on autopilot and they are, at any one moment,
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three steps ahead of where they are going and have no reservations or
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fears about getting there.
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I began to realize that this all sounds awfully familiar until I
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began to complain to myself that I had quit playing drums at 13 and guitar
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a year later. Feeling empty because I really don't participate in any
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traditional artistic expression, I realized where I had felt the same
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natural feeling doing something, the computer. When I sit down to a
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terminal, I feel at home. The keyboard feels natural to me and my fingers
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know their way from the escape key to the numeric keypad like a pianist
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knows the keys of a piano. When I sit down to program or to simply peruse
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a UNIX system. I know where I am going and when my finger start typing,
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they know their way and the path they are going to take to get there.
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So how is this art? Well Merriam Webster defines art as art(n): 1
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: "skill acquired by experience, study, or observation" and "the conscious
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use of skill and creative imagination.." Under these definitions, being a
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computer nerd like myself IS an art. As far as creativity, look at all the
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different ways one program can be written, or look at Linux, the
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culmination of many different artists on one project (a project still in
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development I may add :) ).
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So where's the glory? Where are my thin, large busomed, blondes
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wearing thongs that eventually end up on stage? Why doesn't anyone ask me
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to program in front of hundreds of thousands of screaming fans? Well, for
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the most part, we're just the unsung heroes of the next generation. Granted
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there are stars like Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs, but they are the Elvis's
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and Michael Jackson's of our time. The real stars have yet to shine.
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So keep those keyboards clean, practice and learn, soon we will
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all get the recognition that we deserve.
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-tersIan
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