Are you a nerd? - Page 5

PhishStyx · 07-04-2009, 06:19 PM

My wife tells me that I strongly resemble the tv show, Big Bang Theory, so I suspect that I'm a nerd, yes.

mklynds · 07-04-2009, 06:32 PM

According to the chart I am a split nerd/geek hybrid.

ahammer · 07-05-2009, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by mklynds

According to the chart I am a split nerd/geek hybrid.

me to.

man I don't check the boards for a few days while I play wow, my dnd game and to get ready for my new programing project and there like 50 new topics on this board.

so hard to keep up with you lot. when do you find time to read?

GeoffC · 07-05-2009, 03:26 AM

I may have been a geek once upon a time, but as the windows OS system developed I became increasingly 'left behind'; so at my age I'll say I'm now just a nerd - and I write just a little too ....

Crusader · 07-05-2009, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Teyrnon

.... I'm an avid reader, a gamer, a writer, an amateur astronomer, a philosopher, and probably a hundred other things at any given time.

That pretty much sums me up too. Although amateur astronomer is getting to be priority number one nowadays.

PhishStyx · 07-05-2009, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Teyrnon

Me on the other hand; I'm an avid reader, a gamer, a writer, an amateur astronomer, a philosopher, and probably a hundred other things at any given time.

Cool, what games do you play?

sakura-panda · 07-06-2009, 03:17 PM

I am neither a geek nor a nerd. I am too well-rounded to fit any label.

(I'm an engineer, a Camaro fanatic, I have more cameras and computers at home than any one person should have, I love video games although I can't remember the last time I played one, I dislike most science fiction, I love anime but dislike giant robots fighting in space, I love to knit and scrapbook, which I do with paper and digitally. Does that make me "geek", "nerd", or something else?

)

pshrynk · 07-06-2009, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by sakura-panda

I am neither a geek nor a nerd. I am too well-rounded to fit any label.

(I'm an engineer, a Camaro fanatic, I have more cameras and computers at home than any one person should have, I love video games although I can't remember the last time I played one, I dislike most science fiction, I love anime but dislike giant robots fighting in space, I love to knit and scrapbook, which I do with paper and digitally. Does that make me "geek", "nerd", or something else?

)

Well, you are a "Michigander" which is a strange enough label without adding more...

sakura-panda · 07-06-2009, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

Well, you are a "Michigander" which is a strange enough label without adding more...

(I don't have anything to add to that.

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Teyrnon · 07-06-2009, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by PhishStyx

Cool, what games do you play?

Pen & Paper RPGs, boardgames, and miniatures.

rlparker · 07-06-2009, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Peverel

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I am a robot builder and work as a software developer.
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Cool. What kind of robots do you build? What kind of software. I'm a ASP.NET/C#/Sql Server guy myself, but I'm very interested in ASP.NET MVC.

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Originally Posted by Teyrnon

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I never really got the whole claim a pejorative label for oneself thing.
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Pejorative? No, man, I think these are compliments. At least "geek" is.

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Originally Posted by PhishStyx

My wife tells me that I strongly resemble the tv show, Big Bang Theory, so I suspect that I'm a nerd, yes.

Haven't seen the show, but it's kind of hard to imagine anyone resembling a t.v. show

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Originally Posted by Crusader

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Although amateur astronomer is getting to be priority number one nowadays.

Cool. What kind of hardware do you use?

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

Well, you are a "Michigander" which is a strange enough label without adding more...

Michigander? You sound like you know what you're talking about--is that really the term for someone who hails from Michigan?

Verencat · 07-06-2009, 07:13 PM

For Pev's robots pictures here, post 14.
They are cool!

rlparker · 07-06-2009, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Verencat

For Pev's robots pictures here, post 14.
They are cool!

Thanks for the pointer, Verencat, I had missed that thread! Pev's robots are cool, and I was happy to find out that there are so many other talented MRers too!

pshrynk · 07-07-2009, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by rlparker

Michigander? You sound like you know what you're talking about--is that really the term for someone who hails from Michigan?

Yes, I do know whereof I speak. Being from Wisconsin, right next door to Michigan...

We get to call ourselves "Wisconsites," which sounds like some form of fossilized poo. An alternative form is "Wisconsiners," which sounds rather perverted.

I went to school in a small town in Iowa called Le Mars, which made me a temporary Le Martian.

Folks from Illinois call themselves "Illinoisians." We just call them "Annoying."

rlparker · 07-07-2009, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by pshrynk

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I went to school in a small town in Iowa called Le Mars, which made me a temporary Le Martian.
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Okay, pardon my dementia

but what's the word that means "what you call someone based on where they're from"?

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07-04-2009, 06:19 PM	#61
PhishStyx The me that I am Posts: 413 Karma: 1078 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: In my house! Duh! Device: Kindle 1 & DR 1000s	My wife tells me that I strongly resemble the tv show, Big Bang Theory, so I suspect that I'm a nerd, yes.

07-04-2009, 06:32 PM	#62
mklynds That guy, no not that guy Posts: 337 Karma: 2846 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Alberta, Canada Device: PRS600 Red	According to the chart I am a split nerd/geek hybrid.

07-05-2009, 03:26 AM	#64
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	I may have been a geek once upon a time, but as the windows OS system developed I became increasingly 'left behind'; so at my age I'll say I'm now just a nerd - and I write just a little too ....

07-06-2009, 03:17 PM	#67
sakura-panda Guru Posts: 939 Karma: 9558874 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Southeast Michigan, USA Device: Kindle Oasis; 11" iPad Pro (Books, Kindle, Kobo, MapleRead SE)	I am neither a geek nor a nerd. I am too well-rounded to fit any label. (I'm an engineer, a Camaro fanatic, I have more cameras and computers at home than any one person should have, I love video games although I can't remember the last time I played one, I dislike most science fiction, I love anime but dislike giant robots fighting in space, I love to knit and scrapbook, which I do with paper and digitally. Does that make me "geek", "nerd", or something else? )

07-06-2009, 07:13 PM	#72
Verencat Wizard Posts: 2,615 Karma: 96491 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Montreal, Qc Device: xxx	For Pev's robots pictures here, post 14. They are cool!