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05/04/2004 08:27:26 PM · #1 |
I have boxers with the Periodic Table on them.
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05/04/2004 08:29:44 PM · #2 |
im in gifted doing 10th grade honors geometry in 8th grade.
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05/04/2004 08:32:09 PM · #3 |
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05/04/2004 08:32:43 PM · #4 |
hsteg...10th grade honors in eighth grade here as well...
Nerdiness equalled? i think not!
I self-taught myself the piano and every Beatles' song on the piano in a one yr period. :)
Spelling edit...hey i never said i was in honors spelling!
Message edited by author 2004-05-04 20:37:36.
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05/04/2004 08:35:23 PM · #5 |
| Ah, but can you "self-tought" yourself to spell taught? |
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05/04/2004 08:35:25 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by goinskiing:
I have boxers with the Periodic Table on them. |
I have boxers with my password sewn into them... :) Just kidding! I'm not much of a geek I'm afraid. |
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05/04/2004 08:36:39 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Are_62:
Originally posted by goinskiing:
I have boxers with the Periodic Table on them. |
I have boxers with my password sewn into them... :) Just kidding! I'm not much of a geek I'm afraid. |
Quick Question: Has anyone mispronounced your last name? Just curious.
:D
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05/04/2004 08:39:30 PM · #8 |
guess Im a nerd.... I answered yes to 10 of the questions...
10-13 ANSWERED “YES”: Nerd Alert! Yes, you’re a nerd—but you’re not a full scale nerd quite yet. There’s still time for you to repent. Buy a pair of Nikes and get your ass away from your computer.
James
Message edited by author 2004-05-04 20:39:48.
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05/04/2004 08:39:45 PM · #9 |
I have a tie with the periodic table on it...
and three HP "RPN" style calculators (two 15C's an 11C and a 16C) all working and used regularly...
and a working example of the first electronic calculator (no tubes except display), ca. 1964...
and a small collection of broken mechanical parts that have "interesting" failure modes...
and I've been known to use an industrial datalogger to "profile" my home oven to document it's deviation from setpoint...
and I've been known to conduct designed experments to optimize modifications to my garden tractor...
Geeky enough?
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05/04/2004 08:43:02 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by jab119:
guess Im a nerd.... I answered yes to 10 of the questions...
10-13 ANSWERED “YES”: Nerd Alert! Yes, you’re a nerd—but you’re not a full scale nerd quite yet. There’s still time for you to repent. Buy a pair of Nikes and get your ass away from your computer.
James |
LOL, whoever wrote that list was denfinitely NOT a nerd! (s)he has absolutely NO clue!
Geeky & proud of it.
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05/04/2004 08:43:46 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
I have a tie with the periodic table on it...
and three HP "RPN" style calculators (two 15C's an 11C and a 16C) all working and used regularly...
and a working example of the first electronic calculator (no tubes except display), ca. 1964...
and a small collection of broken mechanical parts that have "interesting" failure modes...
and I've been known to use an industrial datalogger to "profile" my home oven to document it's deviation from setpoint...
and I've been known to conduct designed experments to optimize modifications to my garden tractor...
Geeky enough? |
YESS!!! That's what I am talkin' about.
I need to get myself a Reverse Polish Notaion calculator, my grandfather said it would be very useful for studying engineering.
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05/04/2004 09:05:14 PM · #12 |
| LOL I still have a slide rule... |
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05/04/2004 09:08:39 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by TooCool:
LOL I still have a slide rule... |
I have one straight and one circular, and a log table (never used it though, got it from my dad). |
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05/04/2004 09:15:16 PM · #14 |
| Got mine from my dad to! He could for sure have been called a nerd back in the day! He could read punch cards! |
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05/04/2004 09:19:29 PM · #15 |
| im embedded in a society of geeks at uni.. i prefer to disassociate myself from such a kind.. [they're just so wrong] |
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05/04/2004 09:30:43 PM · #16 |
Kirbic's "you might be a geek if..." list:
You might be a geek if...
- You find it painful to watch most sci-fi movies; the science is all wrong
- TV shows, same thing
- You take issue with the "right" answers on your daughter's science tests
- You can actually explain the concepts of special relativity... without referring to a text.
- You've actually read Darwin's "Origin of species"
- You know who came up with the concept of communications satellites (hint: his name is metioned early in this thread)
- You know which hollywood actress received a US patent for spread spectrum communications... and you know why the concept of spread spectrum communications is important
- Your computer has processed over 1000 SETI@Home work units
- You track your gas mileage to the nearest 0.1 mpg, but you never balance your checkbook
- You have ever plotted your DPC scores as a function of time
- Extra point if you have ever done statistical analysis of your DPC scores
- Another extra point if you've ever posted the results...
- And finally... you might just be a geek if... you enjoy it when your co-workers refer to you as "the super geek"
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05/04/2004 09:33:34 PM · #17 |
| I'm not that big of a geek...I'm only 5'10" and 155 pounds. |
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05/04/2004 09:41:11 PM · #18 |
I have boxes and boxes of out dated computer parts that I know I will never use.
Tom
//www.deltonalakes.com/galleries
Feel free to post your photos |
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05/04/2004 10:17:25 PM · #19 |
Ever since I bought the 828 I’ve been carrying the thing over my shoulder in a bag that looks disconcertingly like a purse. I go to work with it and shopping. I went to dinner and it was slung over the shoulder. It’s like a curse. I have to bring it everywhere and I had to have bought this girly bag. Good Grief!
Jm
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05/04/2004 10:27:05 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by goinskiing:
I have boxers with the Periodic Table on them. |
I think you win :P
(LOL)
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05/04/2004 10:28:12 PM · #21 |
| Well, my dad has always been a bit of a nerd/geek/conservative. Now he calls me a geek. LOL... pretty scary when you beat dad! |
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05/04/2004 10:36:27 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by TomH1000:
I have boxes and boxes of out dated computer parts that I know I will never use.
Tom
//www.deltonalakes.com/galleries
Feel free to post your photos |
Me too, seeing that I build computers for fun!
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05/04/2004 10:42:58 PM · #23 |
let's see
- I've programmed at least 40 graphing calculator games and screen savers (currently working on hangman), and hardly ever show them to anyone.
- Yes I have plotted and analyzed my DPC scores
- I carry scotch tape around in my backpack and keep the end of the tape folded over, so it is more accesible.
- I really enjoy looking up big words, and using them (epiphenominalism is one of my favs, and recently I found that I am a nemophilist)
- I read the New Yorker, that is, only the comics.
- I wear hand knitted wool socks...during summer
- I guess I'm just geeky and nerdy enough to post this in this forum!
:)
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05/04/2004 10:46:15 PM · #24 |
Okay, here's how I measure up according to Kirbic:
- You find it painful to watch most sci-fi movies; the science is all wrong
- TV shows, same thing
- You take issue with the "right" answers on your daughter's science tests
- You track your gas mileage to the nearest 0.1 mpg, but you never balance your checkbook (This one is so true its scary!)
- You have ever plotted your DPC scores as a function of time
- Extra point if you have ever done statistical analysis of your DPC scores
- And finally... you might just be a geek if... you enjoy it when your co-workers refer to you as "the super geek"
And a few of my own:
-You have Periodic able boxers
-You brag about it on DPC
-Programmed the calculator to do the Algebra in 7th grade and have all your classmates mad at you because they think you're cheating and they tell the teacher and you plea your case by stating the fact that you have to understand Algebra in the first place to program Algebra into the Calculator
-Taught yourself html when you were bored
-Taught yourself any other language or script for that fact, just for the fun of it
-Enjoyed physics and calculus so much that you had Math buddies and can recall fun times in Math, that were actually realated to the material
-Carry a Palm-Pilot on your belt like a cell-phone
-Have programmed a game or two in your time
I've got more
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05/04/2004 10:47:50 PM · #25 |
I play with Lego.
Paying for electricity and phone/dsl is more important than heat and breakfast cereal...
P.s. I own 3 Palm Pilots (1 working). 3 digital cameras (only use one). I check out my score on dpchallenge before the news.
/probably more, too tired to think..
Message edited by author 2004-05-04 22:49:41.
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