I'm a Nerd and proud of it

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  • miss_jessiejane
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  • Red_sparkling_Titania
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    Uh huh :glasses:
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
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    What's the difference between a nerd and a geek? I get them confused.

    let me help you with a handy Venn diagram:

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    Been laughing hysterically at this ..... I can say with authority that I am neither a dork nor a dweeb .....

    Then you are, by definition, a geek. I think that's where I fall out on this Venn.

    I searched this in vain to find where "engineer" fell. I peeled up the word "nerd" and found it.

    To all engineers - this is NOT a scratch and sniff. This has been verified.

    Can someone tell me if I'm socially inept or not? Because my obsession with palaeoanthropology ticks the other two boxes. So I don't know if I'm a geek or a nerd.
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    OMG I laughed so hard at this....!!!
  • Dragonwolf
    Dragonwolf Posts: 5,600 Member
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    Only one IT Crowd gif? Must fix that.

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    Oh yeah, and I..
    - am a software developer by trade and passion
    - have contributed to the Open Source community
    - enjoy anime/manga (and have since high school)
    - was the curve-buster in every class
    - actually had some teachers use my test as the grading key
    - passed all my classes in school without cracking a book
    - was the one everyone wanted to team with for review games (until I stopped giving answers)
    - learned computers by repeatedly tinkering with (and breaking...then fixing) my first computer (with the help from my nerd dad)
    - run Fedora as my primary operating system
    - know the implications of the previously-mentioned comment about chmodding the bash scripts to 777 (ftr - generally bad idea, 655 is usually sufficient; allowing the world to edit an executable file is usually a very bad idea)
    - ranked in the 99% percentile in both ACT and ASVAB (nothing like having West Point and every branch of the military tripping over each other to recruit me...)
    - have actually trained in Ninjitsu
    - own several thousand Magic: The Gathering cards and have built several custom decks
    - own more books just on computers/programming than I do shoes
    - have met John Resig in person
    - have hung out with Greg Weisman and Thom Adox-Hernandez
    - have built nearly all of my desktop computers
    - not only played World of Warcraft for four years, but dressed as a night elf Druid (only because I don't have the costuming skill to go as a Tauren Druid, my race/class of choice) to earn my collector's edition of Wrath of the Lich King
    - married a man who was president of the chess club and ran the computer independent study program in his high school
    - met aforementioned husband while he worked in the computer department at Best Buy and was still in his uniform

    Yeah...I'm a nerd...
  • dpwellman
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    Yeah...I'm a nerd...
    Where's your Apple Newton? Or I'll accept a Sharp Zaurus. . .
  • whovian67
    whovian67 Posts: 608 Member
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    I am Whovian so I think that qualifies me as a terrific nerd (& proud)
  • Dragonwolf
    Dragonwolf Posts: 5,600 Member
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    Yeah...I'm a nerd...
    Where's your Apple Newton? Or I'll accept a Sharp Zaurus. . .

    I was just a Poor Nerdling in those days, so no handheld devices for me until the Android days. Just an old DOS machine that I don't even remember the model of at the time.

    And speaking of 'lings...how do we have a Nerd thread and no StarCraft references?

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  • _errata_
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    Great. Now I want to play star craft all weekend.

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  • detox_pixie
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    I was a nerd before it was cool, so..
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  • _Pseudonymous_
    _Pseudonymous_ Posts: 1,671 Member
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    Not a gif... but entertaining all the same

    Epic Rap Battles Nerd v. Geek!!!

    http://youtu.be/2Tvy_Pbe5NA

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