How much of a nerd are you?

[Brewman_Jax]

I'm such a nerd I learned how to use the calculator on my cell phone and ipager.

[Atmashine]

1. I wore plaid. With glasses.

Every day for the first 15 years of my life.

[Brewman_Jax]

4. Not bad

the glasses help.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

26. Welcome to DU.

[seemunkee]

2. I hacked a Nintendo powerglove to work in a virtual reality program

I also have a cybermaxx head mounted display but the resolution sucks so I never hacked it to work with my PC.

[derby378]

12. Wow! Me too!

I rigged it to work with an Amiga setup. You could control the mouse on-screen with the Power Glove. A little sticky, but it worked.

That had to be about 12-15 years ago. Ah, memories...

I think I still have that glove packed away somewhere.

[seemunkee]

22. I still have my Amiga, so add some more to the nerd factor

and the glove is still around too.

[Brewman_Jax]

14. That's good

[ghostsofgiants]

3. My website is coded in valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Also, I really like wearing glasses.

[Call Me Wesley]

25. Uhm.

Line 35 column 149: general entity "oe" not defined and no default entity.

[ghostsofgiants]

28. Yeah, Yahoo's hosting adds a tag after the html...

That fucks up the automatic validation. Copy and paste the source, minus the tag that's added at the end (ie. everything coded by me), and it validates. I need to figure out how to turn that tag off.

[XemaSab]

76. Me too!!!1!

OMG!!!!!!!11!!!!1!!!!!

[Omphaloskepsis]

78. Do you have a RSS feed?

Atom? XFN? Ajax? Ruby on Rails? Subvertndestry API? Web 2.0? primate.us?

Oh crap I am bored.. Hey, I would wear glasses even if I didn't need them. But I do, so I wear cool ones.

[ghostsofgiants]

86. I have an Atom feed.

Far too lazy for the rest of that shit, haha.

[Shell Beau]

5. Um....

I don't guess I am a nerd, but my husband's glasses were so thick as a child, he would burn leaves with them. I mean coke bottle glasses!!

[Brewman_Jax]

20. Not quite nerd enough

but not bad. Are you sure you aren't a nerd?

[Shell Beau]

23. Well, I like to read! Does that count?

:P

[Brewman_Jax]

39. What genre do you read?

[Shell Beau]

45. Well, I like fiction. Not Danielle Steele crap, but

fun reads. I am about to start a book by Michael Connelly called "The Lincoln Lawyer"

[Brewman_Jax]

66. Good

nerd. :P

How's that?

[swimboy]

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:rofl:

[Brewman_Jax]

16. Nerd

:rofl:

[mikeytherat]

32. In high school: Model Rocketry, Computer Club, Chess Club AND Band!

I wired both my houses with Ethernet (in the mid-90s!), built my own computers, and I have every surround sound format from Quad to DTS (BETA pro deck and laserdisc player, anyone?).

Top that, swimboy!

mikey_the_rat

[swimboy]

42. Wow. I think I'm not worthy to sing in the same church choir with you.

:eyes:

On the other hand you had a cool nerd groove goin on.

I was a nerd, but a bland one. :cry:

:rofl:

[mikeytherat]

71. Ah, but I also did theater (Thespian Chapter President), jazz band,

soccer and football.

The balanced, multi-nerd, I s'pose (or maybe a secret agent infiltrating multiple groups...)

mikey_the_rat

[flamingyouth]

7. I spent my lunch hours in high school reading in the library

Usually light stuff like "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." I'm never without a book.

[The-Cynic]

9. I Dressed up for the Star Wars Movies

I mean the original, Empire Strikes Back, I had a Chewie costume on. I still live in the Star Wars Universe, the originals only though not the shit piles that you've heard about of late.

[derby378]

13. Hey, if I had the money...

...yours truly would show up in a Rebel Trooper outfit from the first Star Wars movie. Big white helmet and all.

[Atmashine]

15. I dressed up for Pokemon.

The first movie. As Ash. I guess that's not really nerdy. That's just...freaky. ::hides::

[The-Cynic]

44. That's just sad....

But hey, you know we're all alike in the dress up way, I dressed up as a hobbit for the Fellowship of The Rings---a lot of people did actually, and a lot of people dressed up for Harry Potter, though I don't think I'll read it, I just saw all those cute kids dressing up like a witch and such.....but nothings as fun as dressing up as a jedi.

[Fenris]

50. Honest to God, I did the exact same thing.

To a T. :wow:

[flamingyouth]

51. And that's why we're together.

We're too nerdy for anyone else. :rofl:

[Fenris]

52. That's true!

Who else could you find that spends vast hours reading quietly about economics or the Seven Years War? :D

[flamingyouth]

54. Or the life of Cicero!

:D

[Fenris]

55. We lead such exciting lives.

:D

[flamingyouth]

56. And soon we shall combine the world's finest libraries!

(Perhaps the nerdiest as well!) ;) :loveya:

[Fenris]

57. Heeheehee.

Incoming! A history of the Barebones' Parliament and an exhaustive look at late medieval English Catholicism!:D

[flamingyouth]

58. I'm clearing a shelf!

I mean a bookcase!

Er, I guess... I mean a room. :D

[Fenris]

59. Room.

Definitely a room.:D

[flamingyouth]

60. I can't wait!!!

:woohoo:

[Fenris]

61. We should probably stop hijacking this thread.

:D

[flamingyouth]

63. But.... we're NERDS, goddamn it!

x(

[mikeytherat]

73. Throughout college, I read a new author every week.

I'd select an author, research a few works by them, check 'em out and dive in. I often got chided by roommates for "reading all the time" (like that's a bad thing). I reads lots of different things and ideas; it was so cool.

mikey_the_rat

[DS1]

8. You had to read the manual?

*scoff* *puh-too*

[Brewman_Jax]

17. Nerd

You're jealous that I took 5 seconds and you took 10 seconds.

[DS1]

19. I didn't take any seconds, I just started using it

I am the R2D2 to your punch-card interface

[Brewman_Jax]

21. Punch cards?

I saw those--as museum displays. I am the voice interface to your keyboard.

[haydukelives]

10. I am on break from

nursing school and i'm reading the text books for next semester
I am such a curve breaker.

[Bassic]

11. I'm more of a geek than a nerd.

And even then I don't look the part. That's how I managed not to scare my Fiancée away in the beginning :)

[MiniMandaRuth]

18. Um... All of the posters in my room are of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings,

and various animes. I know practically everything about LOTR, my first movie ever was SW: A New Hope. I write and read fanfiction. I bought my gamecube myself. I have a shirt saying 'Everyone Loves a Nerd'. My second favorite brand of music is nerd music (J-pop).

Yeah. And, I named my cats Elrond and Elros and Viggo.

And, I want to name my daughter Eowyn.

And, I forgot to mention, I went to the first showing of ROTS and had my hair done up like princess Leia. And then I went to the first showing of LOTR: The Two Towers and wore a wizards hat.

That all might just be freaky stuff... but...

I know more about my computer than probably the programmer, I outsmarted my computer friend on the internet through rabid netspeak, and for Christmas I want photoshop.

[ghostsofgiants]

31. We have a winner

[MiniMandaRuth]

33. *AHEM*

I thought so.

bow before me, because all your base belong to me.

[ghostsofgiants]

35. *bows*

ALL HAIL HER ROYAL NERDINESS! :P

[Brewman_Jax]

38. What a nerd!

[MiniMandaRuth]

49. Darn straight.

IS that still even a DU smiley thing? I know it used to be, but I think it got erased or something..

[Brewman_Jax]

65. Not a DU smiley

but we named our cats after the characters in Battlestar Galactica (the original)

[pdx_prog]

24. I get insulted if I have to use a calculator without RPN....

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

27. No VCR in my house has EVER blinked 00:00. -nt

[FuzzySlippers]

29. I used to play flute duets with myself when I was a teenager.

I would record one part and then play the other along with the playback.

[imperialismispasse]

34. Oh wow. I think you should win.

[FuzzySlippers]

46. Thank you! I never win anything.

Welcome to DU!:toast:

[LSK]

30. i have computers in my living room

[Taverner]

36. I can name all 5 doctors, all 4 masters and can wax eloquently on why

Cybermen and Daleks are not robots....

[imperialismispasse]

74. You must be the biggest nerd because I dont understand this post

[don954]

80. and i must be such a nerd 'cause i can.. :)

[hyphenate]

37. I'm such a nerd

that when I was 4 years old, I was taking clocks and radios apart to see how they worked! (We didn't have computers back then in the stone age!)

[Brewman_Jax]

40. Not bad

my mom said that I would always find my dad's old college algebra book take it off the shelf. They'd move it to one side or the other and I'd always find it--at 4 yrs old.

I like my calculus and physics books better. :D

[NewJeffCT]

41. I have a few shelves full of Dungeons & Dragons books

I also have a few thousand Warhammer fantasy miniatures.

And, I didn't date until I was a senior in college.

[Strong Atheist]

43. Ditto on the D&D. I was reading adult sci-fi in sixth

grade. Read thousands by the end of high school. Also am a gamer.

[kedrys]

47. I carry everywhere with me the gizmo that scans for wireless networks

So I don't have to boot any of my wireless devices just to find out there isn't an available wi-fi network.

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. I still have my compass set

from high-school drafting. Does that count?

[Brewman_Jax]

64. Nerd

that counts. :P

[tsakshaug]

53. I have a slide rule

and know how to use it.
Still have stacks of punch cards I filled out to write programs.

[mwooldri]

62. AAMF BNG A GK IS GR8.

U Get 2 spk in shrt sntnces.

CU L8R.

Mrk.

[Parrcrow]

67. I'm alot more familiar with Star Trek than I'm comfortable with.

[hfojvt]

68. what kind of a nerd is it

who actually needs a calculator
instead of being able to perform complex calulations in their head?
Get real. Any jock can do 2 to the 12th power with a calculator.

[Brewman_Jax]

70. Nerds can

jocks can't.

[Brewman_Jax]

69. My longest thread yet

:woohoo:

thanks to you nerds--even the threadjackers!

[lakemonster11]

72. Last night I went to the weekly trivia night at the same bar I

go to every week (we won!). Then, during karaoke, I sang, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." Then, I came home and finished Claudius the God before falling asleep.

[The-Cynic]

75. I memorized Dunes "Litany against Fear"

If anybody's a fan of the Frank Herbert series, you'd know what I mean, "...I must not fear, fear is the mindkiller...."---yeah....

[XemaSab]

77. Harry Potter buff.

Memorized the Latin names of 50 Brazilian birds and plants.

Can curse in 5 languages.

Got first in my class on the soil taxonomy midterm. Aeric halaquept. Yes indeed....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

79. I still use a slide rule.

That makes me an OLD nerd.

[Maestro]

81. I just finished building my wife a new computer

and not stopping until I figured out the problem with Win XP and its recognzing my SATA drive. I had all the necessary drivers but the damn thing would only look for a floppy disk. I only had the files burned on a cdrom. Anyhow, I had to cannibalize a floppy drive from an old computer just to install the SATA drive so that XP would recognize it. Stupid XP.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

82. Do I count

I Categorize everything, DVDS, CDs, Albums, audio Cassettes, Video Cassettes, books, Video games & food in the cabinet, baseball cards when I was younger.

I made a map of the Grocery store, using retangles as Isles writing what stuff I need from each isle inside the retangle to get in and out as quick as possible, it looks like a play out of a football playbook

I purchased a ticket online for Star Wars Attack Of The Clones, to make sure I saw It on the first day in the theater.

I've drove 2-3 Hours to see pro wrestling events in other states.

I've watch pro wrestling now for 21 years.

I've Played in fantasy sports leagues.

I use to type my homework for bible study out on a computer.

For all you Amateur ham radio enthusiast, I've actually went to major conventions before with my uncle, I must of been the only person under 40 there.

I listen to Coast To Coast AM with George Noory, often, I've been listening off and on for at least 12 years back to the Art Bell Days.

[LibertyorDeath]

83. Well I posted this & Zero replies..........

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4480562

[NMMNG]

84. In college, I would spend the time between classes in the library

Whether or not I had research or assignments to do.

[NJCher]

85. the dummy at the computer

I used to live on a busy street and my computer was by the window facing the street. I had total strangers come knocking on my door to ask if the person sitting at the computer all the time was a inflatable dummy intended to scare off burglars.

I had to answer, no that person is I. They would bluster, "But that person is there morning, noon and night!"

Yep, I'd say.

Pretty soon I developed a physical disease from sitting at the computer for so many hours. It took me a long time to straighten that out. I had to figure it out on my own because the doctors had never seen anything like it.

I turned my living room into a computer room. I had five monitors facing the main window, which was a courtyard. If I left the blinds open, I would often come home to find an audience standing in front of my picture window, trying to figure out what the story was with all the computers. They couldn't figure out if it was a house or some kind of art display.




Cher