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 05/04/2004 10:49:33 PM · #26
-I like to follow-up on the business world and like to track stocks, even if I don't own them
-Have read the Wall-Street journal
-Know every Windows operatin systembackwards and forwards
-Said to yourself one day, "Hey, I think I will build a computer." Then go online and order all the parts of the internet (which is cheaper to do by the way, generally) and then put it all together at midnight when you get the final part.
-Have messed with DOS and actually know what it does and what it means
 05/04/2004 10:50:43 PM · #27
Originally posted by goinskiing:
I have boxers with the Periodic Table on them.

Where do I get one? :)
 05/04/2004 10:54:46 PM · #28
Originally posted by jonr:
Originally posted by goinskiing:
I have boxers with the Periodic Table on them.

Where do I get one? :)


I got them at Old Navy a couple of years ago. I will take a picture of them tonight and show y'all, geekiness at its prime!
 05/04/2004 10:55:55 PM · #29
When you buy a new toy - like a new PDA, cell phone, cordless phone, flash, lens or a digital camera; do you too bring it into the bedroom at night - along with the manual?

Do you have trouble going to sleep when you have a new toy?

When you take a fast elevator down - do you jump as high as you can just as the elevator start so you get that weightless feeling?

Do you ever show your coworkers that you can fit a quarter up your nose? (now - this I have never done!) ;)

Message edited by author 2004-05-04 22:57:42.
 05/04/2004 11:38:09 PM · #30
I have a large display cabinet full of antique scientific instruments. The geeky part: I know how to use all of them,
including the light beam galvanometer and the Gerber Scale. I have a collection of HP calculators and palmtops dating back to 1973, and they all work.
I sold my Altair on eBay for $2400, to a museum in Canada. My first home computer used paper tape to load the operating system, but the bootstrap loader had to toggled in by hand using the front panel switches.
My first programming language was PL1.

I knew I felt right at home with this bunch!
 07/09/2004 02:10:09 PM · #31
Originally posted by kirbic:

- You know who came up with the concept of communications satellites (hint: his name is metioned early in this thread)


Homer Simpson ?

Actually, I always thought this was Arthur C Clarke - though thinking about it, that's probably just geosynchronous orbit satellites.

I think I qualify as a geek.

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07/09/2004 02:23:44 PM · #32
Originally posted by kirbic:
Kirbic's "you might be a geek if..." list:
- You can actually explain the concepts of special relativity... without referring to a text.


... but you keep wishing you had a whiteboard handy.

Originally posted by kirbic:

- 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


... and instead of speaking her name normally, you're struck with giggles from Blazing Saddles. "It's HEDLEY!"

:D

I'm most definitely a geek, but I'm also a gearhead and a football (American football :) ) fan, which mitigates my dorkitude.

/Andrew
07/09/2004 02:39:54 PM · #33
I am a Mac Geek, I have four Macs, from Apple IIC through Powerbook G4, and over 3000 games for them.

I own a Coleco Vision, an Atari, a Virtual Boy, and a Sega Genesis (along with all the modern systems except Xbox)

I can play RPGs for 24+ hours at a shot.

I taught myself to use html.

07/09/2004 02:48:23 PM · #34
I have done several things as previously mentioned. But in addition. If I am traveling somewhere long distance, at every point of reference I have, I calculate how long it will take me to get there at my current speed.
 07/09/2004 02:49:00 PM · #35
Sorry, I think I've beaten you all!!

My Mac Tattoo...
 07/09/2004 02:52:19 PM · #36
I'm an actuary. That's enough all by itself, isn't it?
 07/09/2004 02:59:31 PM · #37
Originally posted by airatic:


...
I own a Coleco Vision, an Atari, a Virtual Boy, and a Sega Genesis (along with all the modern systems except Xbox)

I can play RPGs for 24+ hours at a shot.

I taught myself to use html.


I know these :)

Reverse Engineered the hardware of colecovision w/ADAM computer just to see how it worked... Learned CP/M 2.2 and Machine Language in the process.

Went from Genesis to Saturn to DreamCast and finally XBOX with xBox Live.

Lost almost 3 years of my life playing Diablo, Diablo II online.

Beta tester for xbox live, Warcraft III, Diablo II and Lineage II.

Other signs of geekdom...

TV in bathroom.
Lights in my house control themselves.
700 Watts of 6.1 home theatre in 12x20 living run.
HDTV LCD hanging on wall in bedroom.
All computers in my house are overclocked.

I think I might fit in the Geek club.

07/09/2004 03:07:23 PM · #38
Well, if we're talking home theater here, I have a DLP front projection system with 72x90 screen and 7.1 surround in my 2 bedrrom apartment :)

And a laserdisc player to boot!
 07/09/2004 03:13:01 PM · #39
I collect and prominently display disturbing action figures.

I have four scientific calculators on my Palm T3, THREE of which are emulated HP ROMs.

I write python scripts to generate clickable HTML front-ends for my 42GB MP3 archive, so I can browse all the album reviews and cover art that I carefully scour from the Internet. My ID3v2 tags are asymptotically close to 100% accurate.

I used words like asymptotically.

I hacked my TiVo to slap an extra 90GB drive in it, after getting Microsoft to pay for it during that California/Oregon Best Buy MSN sign-up debacle, a sign-up I immediately cancelled once I had my free TiVo.

Should I go on? :)

P.S. I not only played Diablo II for years, I wrote large chunks of Diablo II. I also worked on After Dark (the screen savers) and Dogz & Catz, your Virtual Petz. ;)


Message edited by author 2004-07-09 15:16:45.
 07/09/2004 03:15:25 PM · #40
I took that quiz and got:
14-17 ANSWERED âYESâ: An undeniable nerd.  Youâre a dork and very lame.  And you probably make a lot of money, using your nerd-skills in the private sector.

but I am a girl, does it count?

I hate sports, hate beer, love atari, love star wars, but hate star trek, have to take allergy medicine daily, don't eat meat (order special foods on planes and at restaurants), own star wars toys to sell in the future when George Lucas passes away (which I hope doesn't happen for a very long time since he's amazing and needs to keep making movies), can quote gazillions of simpsons lines and know almost every single episode within 1 min of the credits, futurama was my 2nd favorite show (still is, but it's not in production anymore), i know php, html and some mysql and i love coding, I would rather play atari or old nintendo than xbox, i hate sports games, i have a cat named raziel, vampires & fairies are cool, i prefer to only go out at night, if at all (if i am not home coding), I love photography more than any other hobby, but don't leave the house much so I mostly have photos of cats and abstracts, i think smallville is a great show but i do get mad when they go too far of course from the comic, i've been to megacon in Orlando, i stare at luke's lightsaber in Puzzle Zoo wishing I could own it, i love legos, math & logic puzzles, i am married to a gamer/programmer who can solve a rubik's cube in 15 seconds, and we mostly listen to underground industrial and alternative, hate the mainstream!

Haha, so, where do I fit in in this world? :)
 07/09/2004 03:17:32 PM · #41
*gives everyone in the thread a wedgie*
 07/09/2004 03:23:06 PM · #42
Oh yeah, I do virtual and augmented reality programming as a day job. :D

/Andrew
07/09/2004 03:23:07 PM · #43
I'm in the process of hacking wireless access in to my TiVo.

I've written Palm applications.

I've converted PowerPoint to generate floorplans to lay out Verilog.

I've built a full size arcade emulator. and wrote my own front end.

I've written a Windows VxD for a graphics accelerator PCI card that I also designed, built and populated.

I designed my own graphics accelerator chipset, which I hooked up to photoshop as a plug-in, for fun.

I've built my own flashing LED message wavey thing, to display random rude messages in the air.

I design video and camera phones for living.

I have a 5 digit slashdot ID.

I wrote parts of the infrastructure for one of the longest running MUDs on the net (14 years ago now - and it is still running)

Do I need to go on ? :)

Message edited by author 2004-07-09 15:32:00.
 07/09/2004 03:23:42 PM · #44
For anybody who wants to see how much of a geek Gordon really is, paste his Geek Code Block into the decoder =]
 07/09/2004 03:25:48 PM · #45
Originally posted by EddyG:
For anybody who wants to see how much of a geek Gordon really is, paste his Geek Code Block into the decoder =]


Note that I extended the default geek code syntax with deprication operators, so you'll need to remove the '<'s to translate
 07/09/2004 03:27:03 PM · #46
I need to go back to Geek College . . . . I can't keep up with you guys! lol And to think my family thinks I am the geek!
 07/09/2004 03:32:55 PM · #47
I answered yes on 6 questions so I'm not a nerd (of course I'm also not a man). Two don't really count since it was my husband that named our Iguana (maybe owning a reptile should have been a nerd question) Fin Fang Foom after an old comic book villain. I thought it was cool and I like comic books also. He probably would fail the nerd test also.

The other question that didn't count (for me) was about taking daily vitamins. I had gastric bypass surgery. If I don't take daily vitamins I could get ill and die.

And who the hell can't tell the difference between a Snickers and Milky Way blindfolded? A Snickers is much heavier.

I'm pretty sure I'm not a nerd anyway. :D I did not to relate to any of the experiences mentioned on this thread.

I disagree that tighty whities are nerd underwear compared to boxers. I don't recall those Markie Mark CK adds being for boxers. GRRRRR. My daughter's best friend and my son are definitely not nerds and they wear regular old jockey shorts (not white ones though). My husband and son agree that boxers don't keep their boys in safe and comfy.

In case you are wondering how I know about my daughter's friend's underwear choice, he sleeps over a lot, sleeps in his undies, and is not shy about it. In case you are worried for my daughter's virtue, her friend is gay. ;-D

I am a bit of an autodidact so maybe I'm kind of a geek. But definitely not a nerd.
 07/09/2004 03:43:54 PM · #48
Am I the only one here who sees a distinction between geeks and nerds?

To me, you can tell a geek by looking at him or her. They are the ones who would probably score high on the nerd test link posted earlier. They are into Star Trek, MUD's, role playing games, etc. They write programs on their computers for fun. Don't know a thing about sports outside of medeival battle reenactments. They don't own a car or if they do it is all dented up.

Nerds, on the other hand are much better at blending in and are more difficult to recognize. They may actually enjoy Star Trek but don't advertise it and certainly don't go to conventions. They know how to program their computer, but don't do it for fun. They often have some "normal" interests, like sports or beer or music along with their interest in astronomy or geology or any other -ology. They got their periodic table boxers as a gag gift from their girlfriend/wife who is also a closet nerd.
 07/09/2004 03:44:06 PM · #49
I forgot these:

While working at IBM, I created 'ACTECH: The Movie' in Autodesk Animator, detailing the process of constructing an ACTECH MOSFET step by step, for Lab Day 1992.

I recreated both the Berkeley Systems offices and my San Francisco apartment as levels for Doom. I also hacked the Doom engine to tweak it so it would keep score the way I wanted it to. :)

I have two t-shirts with Harold Edgerton's strobe photography prints on them.

I bought and use the both the Philips Pronto and Pronto Pro universal remotes, and painstakingly generated 100% custom artwork/page layouts for my home theater equipment. I also published it all online in easy to use libraries and galleries for other people to customize their own Prontos.

I created scripted web art to protest the government's lack of understanding about digital intellectual property and rights management, inspired by the legal battles surrounding DeCSS.

I have been on MUDs/MUSHes/MUCKs almost daily since 1990, including Star Trek and Furry themed ones.

I LiveJournal.

Whew! I'll try to come up with more. :)

Message edited by author 2004-07-09 17:18:50.
 07/09/2004 04:06:34 PM · #50
Originally posted by sailracer_98:
Am I the only one here who sees a distinction between geeks and nerds?

To me, you can tell a geek by looking at him or her. They are the ones who would probably score high on the nerd test link posted earlier. They are into Star Trek, MUD's, role playing games, etc. They write programs on their computers for fun. Don't know a thing about sports outside of medeival battle reenactments. They don't own a car or if they do it is all dented up.

Nerds, on the other hand are much better at blending in and are more difficult to recognize. They may actually enjoy Star Trek but don't advertise it and certainly don't go to conventions. They know how to program their computer, but don't do it for fun. They often have some "normal" interests, like sports or beer or music along with their interest in astronomy or geology or any other -ology. They got their periodic table boxers as a gag gift from their girlfriend/wife who is also a closet nerd.


I'd agree, but say that you've got it backwards - to me nerds are the folk with pocket protectors and bad clothing choices. Geeks are the folk that got rich and lost it all in the .dot bomb, but don't go near star trek conventions.
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