Calling all Geek,Dorks and Nerds!

steven_goldilocks

I've just taken delivery of my Raspberry Pi, does that make me a geek?

Depends what you do with it. If you programme it, then yes. If you try to eat it with ice cream on the side, then not so much.

On a serious note, though, I want one of those. I should learn to programme things. (And, yes, I'm using the olde english spelling of programme. It's hardwired into my brain.)

I'm also a geek, a nerd and a dork.Literature, music, art, TV, cinema, theatre, and so one and so on. Anyone can feel free to add me if they want.

S.

ETA I'm currently trying to decide whether to go for a walk in the cold Glasgow rain or play some Skyrim...

SongDragon

Score! I found this board before heading to bed! Dungeons and Dragons, Doctor Who, puns (if you can't slip in a pun worth a groan you can't be a relative, nuts that we are), and I'm dragon obsessed. I refuse to give them up.

dcurzon

I've just taken delivery of my Raspberry Pi, does that make me a geek?

Depends what you do with it. If you programme it, then yes. If you try to eat it with ice cream on the side, then not so much.

On a serious note, though, I want one of those. I should learn to programme things. (And, yes, I'm using the olde english spelling of programme. It's hardwired into my brain.)

I'm also a geek, a nerd and a dork.Literature, music, art, TV, cinema, theatre, and so one and so on. Anyone can feel free to add me if they want.

S.

ETA I'm currently trying to decide whether to go for a walk in the cold Glasgow rain or play some Skyrim...

i installed rasBMC and the pleXBMC add in, as i was hoping to use it as a Plex media center (my 2011 samsung telly supported plex and worked brill, but i had to send the telly back and got a 2012 which doesnt support plex yet).

First tests were semi successful... xbmc worked and plex communicated with my plex server, however, wasnt stable enough. Further testing required.

A friend of mine has just moved from essex to glasgow to go to uni... she seems to be liking it and has blended with the locals by wearing shorts when its raining

Ro0kin

There is a group on here that I know you will like...

THE GEEK SQUID!

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1238 other geeks can't be wrong.

logdunne

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yesterday evening, spent in a pub doing freeform roleplay (in glorantha- runequest)- There were many funny looks from the regulars but the barman recognised fellow nerds and came over and had a conversation with us about the star trek convention in london this weekend :-)

Love all things nerdy with the exception of Harry Potter!

xSakura

Gamer and graphic designer here, feel free to add :bigsmile:

SkyVetis

hardcore nerd..work in IT, desk full of programming books im working through and random pc parts, play warcraft, love scifi and fantasy books, love rpg games and point and click adventures..will play them any day over most FPS games.

jeffryjirraf

Well I am a civil engineer, and i will stop the car to take pictures of cool bridges. That may be slightly geeky

diadojikohei

I've just taken delivery of my Raspberry Pi, does that make me a geek?

Just ordered one for my son, he wants it for his birthday, he'll be 13!

I am daughter of a nerdy-geek,I run a gaming shop, (I know that makes me a nerd!) and mother of 4 not so little nerd younglings!

That's 3 generations of nerds, there's no way we'll breed that out of the gene pool!

(My avatar is my cyberpunk rpg miniature, aka Nikki Heat!)

issystclaire

Hmmmm, I don't consider myself a geek/nerd but I do love Lord of the Rings (have done since I was a kid), Harry Potter, a lot of Sci-Fi things, and I larp and play table top sometimes....so if that makes me a nerd, so be it.

Ninnyninball

I am a Harry Potter fanatic can't get enough! I could keep readign them over and over and never get bored!! Also love LOTR

I don't care if that makes me a nerdo!! The husband is also in the nerd zone - he is a programmer! go team

randomtai

Everyone is a nerd or geek now...:yawn:

x_JT_x

But how many of you have your very own portal to Platform 9 3/4??

glwerth

Giant nerd girl here. Well, I'm a bit old to be a girl now, but I refuse to be an adult.

Computer games, pen and paper RPG's, sci-fi movies books and anything else I can get my hands on.

My husband is a techno nerd...so our kids are destined to be little geeklets. They are already on their way.

loner_nell

I love to read, generally horror or fantasy, past that and I don't stay interested... Waiting for next George R.R. Martin book, till then I'm reading older novels by other authors, I could name but it doesn't matter I think I read all the Lord of the Rings books in High School. I read the Harry Potter novels, I'm not a fan of the movies.
I play video games, though some people would think I'm not serious, because though I do play "real" games, I also play The Sims and Harvest Moon games. "Real Games": ex-World of Warcraft, ex-Everquest, Legend of Zelda games(I love those so much). Fable games I love so much. Dragon Age: Origins.... 2 was ok but not much replay value and kinda unsatisfying overall. Ecco the Dolphin when they still did that stuff, those games were hard for me though, only almost won the first one, the rest I'd get stuck, silly me. Mario Bros 1- Yoshi's Island, I dunno once they got to the Nintendo 64 I lost my thrill. Still have many really old consoles, what's great about them is, despite my Xbox sounding like a dying elephant(hyperbole, it does sound awful though), some of these systems are as old as me and run fine. Pokemon, I sometimes think some of the newer ones are silly, like that candle that turns into a lamp(Since one time I was joking about how they'd have a lamp pokemon, then I saw one)... but doesn't stop me from playing. I really, really want to play Guild Wars 2, but been playing the "I'm broke" game, it's a boring game that impedes my enjoyment of other games. I love animals, and enjoy their company immensely to people, it bothers my dad, but that's his problem. I am childish I love all things Unicorn still, though I prefer the ones with the lion tail to the horsey one, I'm not so picky I won't get unicorn with horsey tail stuff, it's just my preference. I'm kinda thinking of going back to WoW, I miss my WoW friends, the guild moved servers but I still had a few on the server my main toon is on. Maybe the new pet battle thing will make it less boring.. I hate leveling and I am not buying the expansion, I don't care enough anymore.
"Not Real" games(I think this phrase is stupid, but hey, who am I to argue with "real" gamers?): Any Harvest Moon made for the Nintendo DS(I also have 2 for the Wii), The Sims 3 and subsequent expansions and stuff packs.

Yes I have bad grammar despite that, it's not something I pay a lot of attention to, just enough to know it's wrong. I can definitely see run-on sentences, and that I don't make paragraphs if I don't see it as a change of subject.

Edited because I forgot my "not real" games

IokiOcto

we can all get geeky about something...all of my stuff was written many times by many different people in this thread. Books, video games, movies, board games, tv & comics. Sci-fi, Fantasy, Horror (favorite).

If anyone wants to add me, feel free.

dumbbanana

If any of you like Avatar: TLA or TLOK, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Pokemon or Homestuck, come to me you've found your people. My weight loss motivation is actually to look better in cosplay haha.

I was going to change my id to Randy Butternubs.

Nerdphiliac

Nerd pride ftw!!
Anything to do with the wonderful world of science is just... !! I'm not a scientist (yet...), but I'm an extremely passionate science enthusiast. Biology and chemistry are second to none. :')

LOTR, the Inheritance Cycle, Doctor Who, Pokemon, Star Wars, Skyrim and The Last Air-bender are brilliant beyond words.

jg627

Getting my Ph.D. in a science field. Math nerd. Love science. Love GOOD sci-fi TV shows, movies, and books. Huge history buff (area of specialty is the late Roman republican era/Julio-Claudian dynasty).

I learned latin just so I could read primary sources of roman history. It also came in handy with medieval history. I found some history about my ancestors in the crusades. I love me some european history.

jg627

I watched a Harry Potter marathon a couple months ago. I'm thinking about re-reading the lord of the rings. I am a dungeons and dragons geek. My brother hosts a weekly game with most of the high school D&D group, but I haven't played in a while. I liked 3rd edition more than 2nd. I wasn't too keen on 4th. Now they're playtesting 5th.

silvergurl518

we had a sexy nerd/geek thread a while back.

i'm a total music geek. jason mraz--i've been a member of RKOP (like MFP for mraz-heads) since 2004. traveled across the country for shows with my RKOPals. i love HANSON. yes, it's true.

i won a typing contest in middle school. against the teacher.

i wear glasses. yes, it's a horrible stereotype but dammit, i'm a sexy nerd.

and i live for scrabble.

Krizzo87

I am a huge nerd, but people always seem shocked by this..

maab_connor

geek pride!

Darkskinned88

Did someone call for a nerd *Superman poses*

I'm a total nerd but apparently we're in now (sure wasn't in high school :grumble:)

bushidowoman

My house is full Trekkies, Whovians, and Jedi. I also love Weird Al Yankovic.
Being homeschoolers, my kids are mini-geeks who read science books, my anatomy and physiology books, and the encyclopedia set for fun. I love homeschooling...their questions and curiosities spur many impromptu field trips. We had a tornado headed toward us this past week (it dissipated about a mile from us), and today we are on a quest to find out who makes the decision to activate the sirens in our town, when/how/where they are activated, how many sirens we have and where they are located, etc.

gmad87

Someone rang?

Let's see... I love Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, anime, lots of cartoons from my youth like Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Two Stupid Dogs, (just about all of the cartoon-cartoon era stuff basically), and even more recent cartoons like Flapjack, MLP:FiM, and I'd like to see Gravity Falls--just haven't had the opportunity to watch it yet. I'm a 25 year old grown-*kitten* man and still coming to terms with the fact that I'm an adult :P. Not sure if I could ever let go of my inner child.

I also love video games, from flight simulators to racing to fighting, adventure and RPG games. Current game fixations are Faster Than Light, Guild Wars 2, Natural Selection 2 (pre-ordered), and Minecraft. There's a huge laundry list of games I've loved to play growing up, but I wont go there. For more mundane stuff I love academic subjects like history and as far as sports go hockey is my main staple.

elijhasmomma

*nerd girl signing on!!* :bigsmile:

I'm a big techie, I love all things electronic. I'm completely hooked on Tomb Raider, Assasin's Creed. One of my ideas of spending time with a significant other completely revolves around kicking butt in DC VS Marvel or good ole Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat. I loved all the Harry Potter movies, I used to read books 3-4 at a time....in the 5th grade. I beat my entire school in the 6th grade for having read and tested on the most books for a program called accelerated reader...did the gifted and talented classes...
And recently am proud to say I am in my Sophomore year at Northwestern State University majoring in Addiction Studies and have thus far remained on honor roll every single semester Nerds, Geeks, Dorks....we make the world go round! :drinker:

evereadysmile

Maybe more of an obsessive fangirl and freak than a geek. Definitely a nerd, although my proclivities lean toward civil engineering and roads these days. Proud to let me freak flag fly though, no such thing as a guilty pleasure. Mine are: LotR, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Whedonverse(s), Doctor Who/Torchwood, music, sci-fi and fantasy books and most vampire things that are *not* Twilight.

jeffryjirraf

Maybe more of an obsessive fangirl and freak than a geek. Definitely a nerd, although my proclivities lean toward civil engineering and roads these days. Proud to let me freak flag fly though, no such thing as a guilty pleasure. Mine are: LotR, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Whedonverse(s), Doctor Who/Torchwood, music, sci-fi and fantasy books and most vampire things that are *not* Twilight.

civil engineering is always a good thing

bostongeek

reporting in!

total sci-fi/fantasy geek--I have a Firely tattoo, throw Star Wars parties, read comics, etc. I love me some B5, some Star Trek, and crazy old British spy shows like the Avengers and Man from UNCLE. (I still want to be Emma Peel when I grow up.) My favorite comics hero is the Flash, and I'm going to run the Disney Princess Half Marathon dressed as Wonder Woman (if they'll let me in--Disney doesn't own DC haha).

Feel free to add me as a friend, still kind of new here and looking for "my people."

ETA: also I watch the complete Batman: TAS and Justice League (+Unlimited) about every other month. I'm basically an 8-year-old boy disguised as a 20-something woman.