I'm a Nerd and proud of it

headofphat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA4FxBQ020k

Oi_Sunshine

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch me soar.

j_bark

I love nerds....when my computer crashes.

Erin_goBrahScience

I'm so happy my little nerdfest has kept going.

StarsAreMyOcean

I was ashamed to be a nerd through middle and high school.

Got to college, went "f**k that!" and since then have proudly brandished my nerd card whenever the moment called for a touch of nerd.

miss_jessiejane

miss_jessiejane

maab_connor

how did i not see this???






















i feel like that's enough spoiling you for now, JJ. goodest of nerd threads to you!!

TX_Thundercat

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miss_jessiejane

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miss_jessiejane

maab_connor

13Elimin8

Everyone knows nerds do it better...

sixout

Collier78

#geekporn for you

THIS IS AWESOME!!!

Collier78

I walked down the aisle to the theme song from Superman...and after we were married I walked back down to The Imperial Death March...Do I qualify??

Not to mention we dressed as superheroes for our last set of family pictures...

miss_jessiejane

Mikkimeow

MagnumBurrito

dpwellman

dpwellman

Collier78

Red_sparkling_Titania

Uh huh :glasses:

neandermagnon

What's the difference between a nerd and a geek? I get them confused.

let me help you with a handy Venn diagram:

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.

neandermagnon

OMG I laughed so hard at this....!!!

Dragonwolf

Only one IT Crowd gif? Must fix that.



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...