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thinkgeek.com is awesome!!! I've got three shirts from them -- one that just says geek, another that says codegirl, and an older one that says #!/usr/bin/girl.
My favorite geek item....are these beer glasses that I bought last fall.
Also...I have three computers running in my room at all times and my laptop does get half of the bed every night. Am I a geek -- maybe. Am I strange -- likely. ;)
I think the whole geek thing came to a new level when in a the middle of a college party at a fraternity my buddies cd player started going spazastic so I took it apart with ppl dancing around me cleaned the laser, reset the line and closed it back up to continue partying and having a good time. Just one of the many geeky things I have done. I own almost every new gadget as soon as it comes out (even though I dont use half of them). I live alone and due to my computers my electric bill is equal to that of my 5 friends that live together. Obsessed i think
I feel like a geek now . I used to a party girl :) and now I have 3 computers and 2 laptops all of them running *nix (different OSes...yes I am just beginner *nix BTW, but I am learning fast..faster then you though ;) ). My friends told me my bedroom 's like "computer shop" LOL... but well that's parts of my learning thing and I am enjoy being geek...geek is rock.. :p
well dress wise im pretty normal I most certainly dont wear a pocket protector or anything like that LOL i dont wear glasses or have any of the old sterotype featuresof one that may be labled as a "geek"
at the moment i only have one comp. but I'm saving up to get a new one and then im probably going to turn this one into a *nix box so i can learn that as well because Ive always been interested in learning that OS and now being an AO member it just increases and makes me want to learn it even more LOL thanks alot guys and gals ! (meant as a compliment) LOL
unfourtunantly too I'm working in retail *UgH*! but I would love to be in the tech field in some shape or form someday :D I'm always reading the magazines and constantly ending up at the computer section of my local Barnes and Nobleand of course browsing online I'm always talking about this stuff at work either talking about some tech subject or telling co-workers about the specs' of the computer I'm saving up for LOL just to find that alot of the ones I mention it too have NO clue what the hell I'm talking about LOL .. and I'm sure think I'm weird. there are some exceptions of course but the more I think about it ... LOL yeah I'm with ya bro LOL I'm a geek !!:confused: :thumbsup: but hey I'm proud its something I really enjoy and enjoy learning new things about it expanding my knoledge and understanding.
and I'll shut up now LOL
Heheh, this is a wild topic! Geekiness is in around my area I guess? In high school I was your typical geek, I wa in the A/V plug, I taught classes, I looked over computer labs on my free time, helped teachers outside of school with computer problems, was able to skip school because I could fix a computer, I used all the 'puter lingo, I was happy to be a geek. By my senior year I was actually very popular because of it, and by my looks you wouldn't know by just looking at me because I didn't wear really geekish looking clothing... but I always had fun pointing out I was a geek. Especially with my friends who weren't as geeky as me but were learning, we would always have battles in the middle of class for fun arguing about how the other person couldn't out process a 386SX with no math co-processor and things like that.
Personally I'm kind of happy to see it's hard to be a "geek" today. Because people always use to put a geek out there as someone never to talk to, an outcast, etc. But today it's all a mix, you can be a hardcore nerd/geek/whatever and still be socially excepted. Or at least that's what I've seen around my area and in the few places I've gone.
Oh dear...I'v been out-geeked.....Currently, I have one computer in my room, one downstairs, and I'm building one from scrap... (Wish me luck)
I SOOO wish I had more comps..but there ya go.....I think that geeks these days dress more or less the same as every one else.....and act more or less like every one else......how ever....what pisses my friends of is that they can ask a Hypothetical question, and I can answer it just of the top of my head, and I'll be right, also..I have an annoying habit ot telling every one useless facts that are linked to what ever we happen to talk about...
lol, it's nice to see the geekage grow and expand here in AO and else were.
- Noia
I literally had a dream the other night about a way to "mark" packets at the router to ensure that they were not being intercepted or eavesdropped upon. I'm now working on a way of making it so. All done at the binary level.
Regarding thread_killer's post.
Computer dreams! Another excellent topic! I've had a few code dreams. In some I see the code so clearly but when I wake up all I can remember is that I "could" see the code and the rest is lost.
One was the c++ code for (I know this won't make sense, but, hey, it WAS a dream) for diplaying the trajectory of a car as it flies off a ramp given the angle of the ramp, the speed of the car and the weight of the car. Then (this is the part that doesn't make sense) it would display a visual of the car's path on a wall. Sounds more like VB, but it wasn't. The other was code written to make an old machine age desk lamp work. What was strange about this code was that it was written on some kind of electronic "tablet" (not a computer) and the lamp could be plugged into the "tablet" (which had the code to restore the lamp) and the lamp would just work.
Anyone else have geeky dreams?
I know about lego-porn does that make me a geek? ; ) Seriously though, when I have laryngitis no-one would recognise me as a geek, but the moment I open my mouth. (My T shirts don't help - wore one on Monday which said '404 - shirt/tie not found' to which our Dir of IT remarked: "when you get a bad stomach is it a '500 (internal server error)'?"
I consider myself an ubergeek, ie one with social skills and good hair.
Rachel
I actually dream computer stuff all the time. I won't even go into some of the embedded *nix devices I dream about. I'm actually working on one of them too, as well as the "radioactive" router packets. All playing with fill bits and modifying the Cisco IOS (essentially FreeBSD) a little bit.......that's pretty geeky. :D