Nerds Unite!

Female nerd here. I love computers. Been in IT many years. It's funny I've worked in gaming etc. but don't really play any of them.

Old nerd...started working with computers at age 8, worked in the industry for ten years, B5, Dr Who, Sherlock Holmes, and, even after becoming a first grade teacher, the entire school staff knows to come to me with computer problems before emailing the help desk. Word to the nerds!

Nerd, though not gamer here.

I worked at Renaissance Festivals for 7 years, making my own costumes, and played text based MUDs online growing up! Love fantasy books, Joss Whedon, and Big Bang Theory! I want to get into Steampunk, but I travel too much for work to do anything with it. Marine biologist, so I have my fair share of excel spreadsheets, and I weigh myself every day so I have more data points! (Is that weird? )

Rachel

Nerd/Geek and proud of it! Always have been. Always will be.

My inner dweeb is becoming excited...

Geek checking in...love superheroes, films, music and play a few steam games. anyone feel free to add. on every day- try and motivate and support.

Ohhh my kind of people!

I'm the same. I am also a software developer.

Hello! Everyone should embrace their inner geek! While I'm not a techie I work in Tech so it's great to get involved in the new stuff - got a bit techie in a meeting the other day and I ended up going over to work with a few developers for a bit - heaven!

Enginerd and Math and Science Nerd here. Much more of a nerd than a geek though, no comic books, no MMORPGs, and not a Whovian. Most of you are more geek than nerd

ETA: Nerd battle!

Thanks for the clarification, lol.

Hi my name's Karl.. and I'm a WoW addict. It's been 4 years since I last logged on. I should get some type of badge for that right? :P

This made me LOL... it's true though. At first, it's hard to stay away. It's been a few years for me as well. Now I stick to free to play games when I get the time. Love that Rift just went free to play, it's not too bad!

Everyone is a nerd and a geek now a days. :yawn:

PC Gamer Here!

You can find me playing anything from COD to SWTOR to The Binding of Issac!

I also started a weight loss Vlog on youtube trying to find a better way to be a gamer and healthy at the same time.

I don't want to give up my nerd habits but I know I need to change some of them.

If you are in a similar situation as me feel free to add me on here or check out my vlog

http://www.youtube.com/user/MoreHPLessWT

Good morning. I too, am a proud nerd.

Let me define: I agree with various venn diagrams around that describe a a nerd as being the curious intersection between intelligence, social ineptitude, and obsession. I work in IT, having done just about every job their is except hardcore programming (I can say "Hello World" several languages.): I've worked on a helpdesk, as a DBA, an architect, a system's engineer, and now a, Infrastructure project manager (I like cooling fans and blinking lights!)

The pinacle of my IT / nerd career was managing the integration of a paper company that bought a diaper company. The glorious opportunities for bathroom humor, combined with the need to wear a hard hat and steel toe boots brought joy that can hardly be compared.

Plus there was cheese involved. (From cows, not lame attempts at humor.)

Having spent my career in small fabric covered boxes, sitting nearly motionless for weeks at a time, and in an environment that values intelligence and can look down on fitness, I'm dramatically overweight and starting to have health problems. (I'm not diabetic--yet, but am slow to heal, have funkly liver enzyme levels due to a fatty liver, and more aches and pains than I've earned.)

In June, my daughter decided to join the National Guard to help pay for school. I'm so proud of her that I am using this as my excuse to get back into shape. I started working out and dieting on July 1.

In that time period, I've dropped about 12 lbs, reduced my body fat by over 2%, lowered my BMI by 1.7 points. I'm burning between 500 and 1200 calories a day in excercise, 4-6 days a week and generally staying under my calorie goals.

Here's where I get nerdy: I got discouraged last week about the pace of my weight loss. I figured it should have been more. (Don't bother giving me reasons why I'm doing fine. I get that now.) So I gathered all of the various formulas and did a huge analysis of my net calories, how much I should have lost based on the math, and what I'd actually lost. I was sure I was going to find a flaw in the math, but the net difference was 1/2 of one pound. Arggh. Nerd rage!

So I'm learning to be healthy, how to be active, how to take small steps, and how getting in shape is not one decision; it's a million little ones. I've also learned that while I can eat whatever I want, I can't eat it whenever I want, nor in quantities I want. I guess if I eat like a 180 lb male who gets moderate excercise, physics and chemistry mean that I'll eventually have to weigh 180ish lbs. If I'm in a fight with the math, the math will eventually win.

Good luck to those on your own journey. It's ok to whine a little (are-we-there-yet?) from time to time, but we can't stop at every exit ramp.

Hi... 22...well I'll be 23 in a little over a month... year old computer nerd/computer engineer...whichever makes more sense... I'm just an information sponge...if it interests me I wanna know more!!!! Movies, cartoons, not the biggest gamer but if you invite me to play I'm definitely down..forgot to mention I LOVE ZOMBIES!!! Anyway...ADD ME IF YOU'D LIKE!!!