Nerds Unite!

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!!!

Hi my name is tonya i am new here looking for support in my journey to lose a total of 120 pds but taking it slowly trying to lose 50 pounds to start.

I'm a classic gamer. In particular, Nintendo. Though, I do like some current games. Sometimes I play DS while I'm on my exercise bike. I also like reading and drawing manga, though I haven't really had much interest in a while. I'm a total linguaphile, which may explain my verbosity. And I'm all about dog behavior and training. (Does that count as nerdiness? lol) I suppose that's as far as my nerd-dom extends. I think just about anything else I like that even comes close is rather mainstream.

I guess I'm sorta nerdy...as others have said, I'm not sure how I would classify myself either but...I love the most recent superhero movies (Joss Whedon is amazing!), comics (Marvel) & went to my first Comicon this year. Add me if you like.

I'm still contemplating on whether or not I should go to NY ComicCon this year. A friend of mine will have a superhero lingerie booth and wants me to model this year XD We'll see. If I can meet my physical goals by that time I think I'll go. Eve Myles is guest starring this year and it'd be cool to meet her (although I'd much rather John meet John Barrowman).

I wear my nerd badge proudly!

I go to the BY Comic-Con every year! You should definitely do the superhero booth!

I am in a relationship with my 360. Some of my favourite games are Mass Effect, GTA, Saint's Row, Halo, AC. I used to LOVE the Pokemon games on the game cube/game boy. So sad they don't have them for Xbox. If I had a desktop, I'd be ALL over Steam. I'm also a book worm. My library card says "Chicks Dig Big Brains" TRUTH!

FINALLY!!!!! I'm in love with Doctor Who and just about every other scifi/fantasy book, TV show, and movie ever made. If I could I would marry Logan from XMen, but then i'd probably end up dead...which wouldn't be cool. I'm not into video games, mostly because i'm terrible at them, but I've found a special place for Skyrim. Feel free to add me! More nerds=better discussion