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Afternoon my fellow nerds and not-nerds. The nerdiest things about me — that I’m wiling to admit — is that the only shoes I have that I think are cool are my hiking boots.
I’m a glasses-wearing Silicon Valley electrical engineer. Doesn’t that make me the stereotypical nerd?
I thought that made you a geek.
Wanna be sure? Take the geek, nerd, or dork test.
Thanks for that Andi.
I’m a “Pure Nerd” (69 % Nerd, 17% Geek, 34% Dork)
Like there was any question in anyone’s mind.
As for shoes, I’ll go you one better – I only own four pairs of shoes: two pairs of hiking boots and two pairs of Birkenstock sandals! For “dressy” occasions I wear my good jeans and my good boots and a t-shirt shirt without holes or stains.
Well I have more shoes than but that’s because I don’t every get rid of them — the only new shoes I’ve bought in the last four years have been hiking boots and sandals.
I wish I could dress like you all the time — I’ve just go to figure out how to avoid going to customer sites.
I know that I’m very lucky to be able to “dress down” all of the time. And like you, I don’t throw much out, so I’d probably have a few more old pairs of shoes if I hadn’t moved half-way-’round-the-world four years ago and had to jettison 9/10th of my belongings.
My “good” boots were actually bought secondhand (at the local swap meet) a few months ago, for about a one-fifth of what they would have cost new. My Birkenstocks, likewise, were got cheap when my sister-in-law went to Germany to visit her parents and got me two pairs for less than a single pair costs here.
Maybe the essence of nerdiness is the love of a good bargan. 😉
I’m very picky about my hiking boots and I’m really hard on them so I don’t think I’d ever consider 2nd hand ones. But I got some new Keens 1/2 price when I was in Tucson and that made me very happy.
69 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 30% Dork
heh
Did you go to the public gardens today?
Yep … 😀
OK. I admit to doing the test too.
60 % Nerd, 26% Geek, 17% Dork
We all add up to more than 100% – common schizophrenia?
86 % Nerd, 26% Geek, 52% Dork
Hah!
You’re multiple!
Yep, I’m a dorky nerd. Mother would be so proud. 😉
[Bows humbly to the northeast]
A few minutes ago, I walked into the bathroom and was struck by the sight of a wash-glove floating “palm” up in the bottom of the bathtub. My immediate reaction was how that it was a perfect example of The Uncanny.
I think your geekiness percentage was way too low for the Wizard of the Precise Detail.
I think it had something to do with my lack of technophile points, which I’d attribute to not having electronics more than not being interested in them.
It’s simply a matter of cuteconomics, alpacas are cuter and I can’t afford both.
and pretty much anything else. I have no idea what point I am making but whatever it is, I’m sure it needed to be said.
albert is way cuter than alpacas
Goes without saying, really. But I was trying to spare his feelings about being the most “over-capitalized” rabbit in Tasmania. Although in truth, I’m sure he feels he’s worth every penny, and more.
Best Bunny.
I don’t about anybody but hopped right on over and voted for him when you posted the link.
Hi Ask. I see you’re a bit behind on your Nerd Quotient.
Might I suggest a few courses of study, like memorizing the names of every bone in the human body (all 206 of them – and you probably know most of them already), or fun facts like the distance of the center of the sun to the center of the earth (149,597,871 km/92,955,807 miles, or one Astronomical Unit), or anything relating to Quantum Physics?
😀
Yup – a bit deficient there,
Looks like I need to revive old reading habits. I should know the bones, having one oncologist sister and another being a dentist – but no! Doing much better in the astronomy field – I recall being 11 and the Norwegian equivalent of the $64,000 question was on. Some guy was doing astronomy, and I followed him until he lost in the fourth, or fifth round. Much disappointment, since I didn’t get to know the subsequent questions.
Ooh, ask…that is so sexy…I didn’t know that about you! 😉
Well, thanks.. that’s always nice to hear.
But what was the sexy part? The kid who was at the library most weeks to look for new books on astronomy?
I think it was the Norwegian nerd part. I’ve actually never known one. Go figure. 🙂
Are you froggybottom today, SN?
One nerdy thing I can think of immediately is the almost obsessive need to calculate numbers/averages/relations.
Man Eegee and I discussed this on his blog many moons ago – the propensity to calculate the ETA when out for a long drive. Re-calculating as unexpected traffic conditions (better, or worse), or pit stops make changes in the progress. Also calculating fuel consumption in the same process.
but I never knew that anybody else thought the same. 🙂
I do the ETA thing on trips, too. I also like to keep track on maps looking for exits/cities so I know just where I am.
Hi Andi,
I really have no clue where that came from 🙂
Yes, the map-thing, too – if in the passenger seat.
Well I’m kinda obsessively anal so I choose to be the passenger so I can do the map-thing.
The nerdiest thing: I spend vast amounts of time on political blogs. (I’ve even been called a dkos operative. I can’t imagine anyone less likely to fit that title.)
An operative isn’t nerdy; it’s sexy — it makes you all James Bondish or something … doesn’t it?
If only.
You have to practice saying 2….boran2. 🙂
Good one b2 … 🙂
nerdy? probably more like cynicism, as H.L.Mencken said: A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.…guess quoting curmudgeons might count as nerdy though, eh
as for obsessions…well that’s been
and the names have been changed to protect the innocent
lTMF’sA
Hey dada,
Funny you mentioned that.
A few years ago, I went to a longtime client`s house, who was having a showing.[I didn`t know that]
When I entered the house, it was filled with flowers.
I asked,”Who died?”
She laughed but told me I was horrible.
Well gosh, I’ve always thought of myself as more of a geek (sci-fi geek to be precise) than a nerd…but, sometimes, I will decide to cook something. To do so, I will search out countless recipes for the dish, compare and contrast each detail and then make a new recipe from my research. :>)
But being a geek is actually cool and I want people to tell me all the uncool stuff about themselves so I can hoard it away and then bring it out at the
worstbest possible moment. 😛Hi everyone!
One time a friend wrote me directions to her house….in html. I made it there without a hitch 😉
That’s makes you a nerd and your friend a geek. 😀
she most certainly is, and happens to be a lurker around here as well. Maybe this’ll draw her out 🙂
Show yourself. The nerds need to be balanced out.
w00t w00t!! imma geek!
but a lurking geek at that 😉
Hope next time you’ll delurk before we’ve all trundled off to sleep (or to errands in the southern hemisphere).
What are your nerd, geek, dork stats?
73% Nerd, 65% Geek, 34% Dork
Yikes!
Congratulations, (unless I missed someone’s stats) you appear to be the Big Geek of the day!
Your Klingon Dictonary is in the mail.
You mean Andi lost? But…… that’s impossible. 🙂
Do I get royalties if I wrote it?
kidding, although I spoke a bit of Quenya a few years ago and am still considering getting my name tattooed in it. It’s purty lookin’
took the test and here are my results:
43 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 8% Dork
i guess i’m not so much teh geek i thought meh was =/
/sadness
I went and took the test and I feel so embarrassed by my results. For this group in the Welcome Wagon, I’m a low achiever.
LOL.
So, what you are saying is that you are an statistical outlier to a bunch of statistical outliers?
It’s just because you’re way too high on the slacker ranking to put any effort into such useless stuff.
The test called me Joe Normal.
I feel so ……. normal. 🙂
I got that too, but I was way too embarrassed to mention it. I’ve got to start remembering stats on my favorite Sf author and finally put the words to The Holy Grail in memory. “It’s just a flesh wound!”
I’m afraid to take it, too, FM. I don’t think I’m smart enough to be a dork, geek or nerd. I do say neat and cool though, so what does that make me?
OLD!!!!
But are you be-sonned?
I am be-sonned and both he and his wife have to be at their new jobs at 7AM! We flopped a mattress on the floor of their apartment and they went to sleep 5 minutes after the truck was empty.
Of course being the perfect mom, you’ll be there with a picnik breakfast and fresh coffee for them when they wake up. Don’t deny it. 🙂
More likely I’ll go to Starbucks where she works and let her wait on me. I’m the MIL…remember? 🙂
Yep but you’ll probably tell her she’s had a hard move and to sit down for awhile and you’ll take care of all the orders. 🙂
Oh now that you’ve got both of them down there, you’ve got to teach them how to say ya’ll.
Nevah!
I know you’re a closet ya’ller. Can’t fool me. 🙂
The full force of his return must not have hit yet.
That makes you groovy. 🙂
Good answer…luckily I’m not as dorky as someone who says groovy.
Well that’s cool. 😛
heh…you said groovy!
It said I’m a total nerd, with 56 % Nerd, 34% Geek, 39% Dork.
Harumph.
At least you scored high. Mine were:
34 % Nerd, 17% Geek, 30% Dork
I didn’t get over 35% in anything. 🙁
I’m not sure high scores on that quiz are much of an achievement. 🙂
I never was good at test anyway. Even the ones you can’t fail. 🙂
FM
I noticed you were wondering.
This should do, I hope.
Very cool Knucklehead.
Good to see you putting some pictures up.
Here`s a “FRONTAL LOBOTOMY”
Looks like you took a paint brush to it. You aren’t touching these up are you? 🙂
FM,
No I`m not, but if I wanted to, where would I start?
There`s enough color on this fish, with such subtle variations, I wouldn`t start even trying.
This is a different story. Notice the background change.
Appears the top one is the dressed up going out to a disco exoskeleton. 🙂
I think that`s what happens to them when they try to eat the fish.
OT: I remember getting bit by a mosquito [on purpose] while on mescalin & wondering, if seeing through compond eyes, would affect his flight.
Damn I miss the sixties, some times.
Hey you can’t miss them more than me. Though I’d have to have a body transplant to live through them again. Can’t party like I used to.
FM,
About the colors. Here are two fish together. The large one is an herbivore, a “Rabbitfish” that is venomous, next to the “Mandarin” that eats only live prey that develops in a reef tank over time. They are completely different fish in almost every way, yet their respective colors are almost done with the same pallet.
If you hadn’t told me, and I just glanced at the fish, I would have thought the smaller one is the same fish, but just smaller.
The small one is the first one posted upthread. [maybe you knew that].
Check your mail.
I`m outta here.
I have to go feed my charges.
See ya Head.
Because I win! I win!
Whew. At least I was higher than you! ;>)
My Score: Modern, Cool Nerd
82 % Nerd, 73% Geek, 21% Dork
But then, I write Science Fiction and Fantasy for a living. The nerdiest thing about me is a tough call. Maybe it’s that I’ve still got thousands of comics left over from my high school years, all neatly filed by series and number. Maybe it’s the complete database of all our books and movies organized alphabetically and by subject in an excel document. Or it might be that I’m married to a physics professor. It’s really a tough call.
Hey Kelly.
It’s good to see you. I don’t think we’ve hit a cafe or welcome wagon at the same time in awhile.
Howdy FM, the feeling’s mutual. I haven’t been around much, if at all, lately. I had a hugely compressed deadline on the most recent book which wouldn’t have been too bad if it hadn’t coincided with a mom mess flare-up. Both are now under control just in time for a traveling season of epic proportions. Life is good right now, and the deadline’s a problem I’d have given an arm and a leg for a couple years ago, but man I’ve been crazy busy.
It sounds like a good crazy busy though. I’m glad things are going so well.
Thanks, how are things on your end of the world?
I agree, it’s good to see you. I hope the deadline was for the sequel to WebMage! ;>)
Good to see you too! It’s book three actually, and the official deadline’s still a little ways off, but I’m kind of a freak on the subject of book deadlines. I want to have things in about three months early if at all possible. I won’t manage that because of upcoming travel and needing a draft between first and something I’m willing to turn in, but after busting my butt for the last five months it looks like I’ll be able to get it in with 2-1/2 months to spare. For which diligence I get to reward myself with writing a spec book in the fallow time (it really is a reward-I absolutely love what I do).
Damn. You beat my highest total score. But I’ve still got the highest single score!
Oh .. hi, Kelly.
Good to see you in real time as opposed to in passing over at Indy’s blog.
But it is a fine place to cross paths.
Did you go to Wiscon?
It is that. I did indeed go to WisCon and it was fabulous. It’s far and away my favorite con–smart and fun and feminist.
I’ve been reading some of the panel transcripts over at the feministsf wiki — I especially liked the ‘Why is the Universe So Damn White‘.
Yeah, WisCon’s mix of literary, analytical, and political programming and its density of publishing professionals and academics is just unmatched. Unfortunately, my bedtime has caught up with me, so I’m going to have to check out now, but nice chatting with you as always, Andi.
See everyone later. It’s bedtime.
So, Klaatu barada nikto and asta mañana to everyone.