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W00t. I was negged for my last post on this thread.. Does that mean I win..?? YAY for me. the geekiest of them all..
Anyways. heh.. today ina hardware class of second semester computer students I was the only one able to completely disassemble the PC and put it back together working.. does that add to my geek points? There's what AO needs.. instead of APs .. GPs geek points. based on how geeky or ungeeky your responces are
hmm, Am i a geek..
I drive a fast car, listen to dance music... and have a military stile haircut - but what it still boils down to....
The 1st thing i do when i get up every morning.... check my email!, Check the news sites... then spend all day sitting infront of the PC fiddling with ppl's web servers.
Yes that includes in the evenings, nothing quite like a cheap night of Vodka & Internet abuse ;)
With today's standards, its hard to point out your stereotypical geek by sight. I mean we do come in all shapes and sizes nowadays right. Its no longer some scrawny overly short young kid hidden away in his parents basement. However, i guess there a few of us left :-). Easier ways to point out a true geek is getting them to talk in front of groups of ppl. You can just tell they some ppl are geeks by the way they talk. Sometimes we even sympathise with these people. I think if you starting using thinks like "lol" or "ppl" ( representing people) in everyday writing, and converstaion; then you are truely geeky. Now me? i think i am a geek. i am 19 years old, own my own computer company, and spend 18hrs a day plus on a computer. If you saw me on the street you'd never assume that. I am 6'4" built like a tampa bay linebacker :-) but yes i am geek.
But only because i truely worry about those little things. un-important things about technology, like theories and technologies based on IPV6 (internet protocal version 6) so we dont run out of ip addresses..
yes this is a big worry for me.
and yes.. its keeps me awake at night
:-)
You know in this day and age, when programmers are in one of the better paid career paths I think we probably need to take back the term geek. I always tell people I consider being called a geek a compliment (it implies knowledge). However I still consider the term 'nerd' to be offensive.
I have dreams about Windows Working.....yes...working.....this isn't a joke...I have had dreams where all of a sudden I could do really cool stuff on Windows...can't remember wot...but I remember waking up...turning on Windows...and feeling disapointed coz it wasn't like that..
A friend of mine had a dream about Windows-Install for XP.....hes spent a week fixing it and musta installed it like 48 times....poor guy.
Lol....Geeks Rule!
- Noia
yeah, same with me.Quote:
Originally posted here by englishgirl1
I always tell people I consider being called a geek a compliment (it implies knowledge). However I still consider the term 'nerd' to be offensive.
as far as geek dreams go... once i dreamt i was buying RAM. i think i'm not sure if that's sheer geekiness, or complete sadness :p
either way, i think once i get my own place and a decent-paying job, it'll only get worse. my room will only glow from the monitor and various LEDs. possible cold cathode lights inside the case. and whatever other gadgets i have. and i'm sure i'll get that binary clock from Thinkgeek :D
I'm with you on that... somehow I associate "nerd" with the "old stereotypical geek" (ie: "pocket protector geek"), which we obviously aren't...Quote:
Originally posted here by englishgirl1
You know in this day and age, when programmers are in one of the better paid career paths I think we probably need to take back the term geek. I always tell people I consider being called a geek a compliment (it implies knowledge). However I still consider the term 'nerd' to be offensive.
(Does this mean we wouldn't be accepted as geek if we went back in the 70-80's ? Would we still be geeks? Are we geeks and they were nerds, or as geekdom itself change? Heh... )
Oh, an btw, yeah, code dreams, useless facts, being right about hypotetical questions, knowing what users did wrong even before they start explaining there problem, and (other techs will surely agree) Tech Aura (TM)* are all definit signs of geekness!
*Tech Aura: You know, when someone swears that their printer or computer or whatever tech gear isn't working, that they've been trying to fix it for days without success then call you in desperate need and then you walk in, try it AS IS once, and works fine... (I've always wondered if that's because the gear in question is intimidated by us or our aura has techno-healing powers... ;)
Ammo
Hmm...Whenever I lose anything in the physical world (not cyberworld) I always think to myself if only I could do a Control-F and search for it, it would be so much easier. (Please note i never say this out loud.) I cant eat popcorn without busting out a corny joke on the latest linux kernel, (get it "corny" hahahah). I wake up in the middle of the night and relize a possible solution why my program wasnt compiling yesterday at work. Then i stay up the rest of the night finishing it. Consequently, I have nothing to do at work the next day except develop my googling skills. Consequently, I have been known by many people to give very inspiring tutorials on all the little known but extremely useful features of google. Contrary to popular belief I dont work for google. What else? Thats all i can think of right now but trust me there is more.
pEaCe
Omg lol its like impossable for me to be a geek i cant even spell lol
ok...the dreams, I network in my dreams, re-run cables, config the server, mess with the switches. . all that stuff.
thinkgeek, love it all - wore my "No, I will not fix your computer" t-shirt to work today (I'm the only computer person @ my site)
and the geekiest thing about me...I have a board mounted over my tub and drops in every room (including the bathrooms) just so I can be online anywhere,
Don't mock me. . . do you know how much surfin you can get done while taking a bubble bath?
BTW yes, every precaution has been taken so that no techtech's will be hurt while surfin and soakin.
*techtech is so very sad. . .oh yes. . .so sad...she is ubergeek...and yes...she knows it.