Geeks check in here

How are you a geek. Have you come to terms with your inner geek? Are you proud to be a geek?

D&D playing, Dr Who watching, Anime geek here. Proud to be a geek. Found a person that loves me for being a geek.

Girlfriend is understanding to a point, but the train thing really irritates her. I don't know why, all I want to do is play with my model trains from time to time and make a layout eventually.

dry erase board and started getting hives. When he started having trouble breathing we went to the hospital with him. They even put him on oxygen.

i really dont understand it...


or nerd

Geeks are people that get caught up in certain areas of study, hobbies, or other such things that are ... outside the norm.

http://jameslewis.com/blx/?p=116

"Geeks and nerds can fix your PC, but nerds don’t realise you don’t care how they did it." -- I think that sums it up. --

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And see who shows up.

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(music geek here, though my tastes are neither refined nor eclectic)

im a geek. love final fantasy. am a biology major. makes analogies with examples from science. has all the final fantasy soundtracks and action figures

and am a girl who found another geek to love!!

I love science, history, fantasy novels, scifi, video games, etc.

But you can be a geek without being a tool ;)

And besides, even if someone lacks social skills and is not impressive physically.. i'd much much rather be around them than someone who thinks they're cool but is woefully ignorant. Positive attitude + knowledge + interests = Fun :D

:blocks massive RPG collection, library of fantasy novels, model army and anime DVDs from view:

Edit: I just realized blocking the rpg books with the star trek sheets was self-defeating.

:rofl:

but I think they will be my next army, because converting them would be fun.

and gadget loving geek here...

Been one all of my life...I'm not going to change now.

I liked Trek before it was cool.

but I scored big negative points on this geek test, so who knows?

http://www.student.ipfw.edu/~simodk01/Geek.htm

which made me solidly non-geek, but I think the test is biased to youngsters. How old is this RPG stuff? And anime? I lost alot of points because I play basketball. Does it matter that I am not very good?
Some of that stuff seems to social, the gaming and conventions and such. I would claim to geekdom because I read and study alot, or I did. I spend time with books and computers, rather than people, even other geeks. I would rather have a serious philosophical or literary discussion than play a fantasy game or a video game.
Also I like my sci-fi books and movies and TV shows, but to get totally involved in them is too bizarre or pathetic to me.

I scored 680. Help me.

:hi:

Brit scifi, RPGs, math, physics, anime, manga.

Obscure independent foriegn films (Am I the only man on earth who likes subtitles??????)

Eighteenth century literature.

And I even know what the word "geek" actually refers to.....


Khash.

We have an entire rack dedicated to our foreign films over here. Each movie more obscure than the next. You got Pistal Opera? Thats obscure.

And leave the poor carnies out of this.... :D

It was a throaway comment I thought no one would get... Read "Geek Love" Az? There can be deep passions among the "poor carnies". :)


Khash.

...the only man on earth who likes subtitles that is.

I remember when _Life is Beautiful_ came out on DVD it took me some time to find a version of it that wasn't dubbed.

My daughter has for some strange reason "inherited" this, but it manifests it a weird way. She'll turn on closed-captioning on the television because she wants to read the dialogue.

CC is great! On Letterman once the CC was "the music sucks, the band sucks, the audience hates it" Truer words... or at least honesty....


Khash.

but I'm not a man--sorry.

I accidentally lost my feminism in one sentence.

I love women who like subtitles....


Khash.

I am a very well rounded geek which is a clever pun considering my built.

-How am I a geek?

Computer geek:
Wrote my first computer program at age 9... my house has no less than 7 boxen, locally I run MacOS 9, OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Fedora (Core 3 and 2), Windows XP pro, Windows ME, and Windows 95. In addition, I work remotely on Solaris, OpenVMS, HPUX, IRIX, etc. Currently working in network security for very large deployments (Class A size and bigger). I can't sleep without the sound of computer fans running... it's too unsettling. Longest I've been away from the 'net in the last 8 years was when I took a 16 hour break to get in touch with nature.

Music Geek:
I'm on something like 16 CDs, some 20-30 tapes, 6 records (remember those?) and one 8-track. Home studio has 36 channels, 3 keyboards, 3 more synth modules. Toured nationally, decided I'd rather be in computers than music.

Geek hobbies:
D&D, AD&D, Vampires, Diablo, etc etc. (RPG's, both dice and electronic). Kit electronics. Hardware tinkering. Mathematics, Ontology, and Philosophy studies for the sheer fun of it.

-Have I come to terms with my inner geek?

Yup. I resisted in my mid-to-late teens, realized I wasn't happy. Went into larval stage, came out much better.

-Am I proud to be a geek?

Oh, most certainly. Say it loud!

Edit: Additional words were not needed.

I've watched so much A&E, Crime profile shows, etc. that one day without facing the television, I correctly identified Jeffrey Dahmer's voice. :scared: Since then I've cut back some... :P

Stuff I know way too much about that probably makes me a geek:

Serial killers

Musical theater

Film--actors, actresses.

Music videos (primarily era of 80's into early 2000's--most current stuff and videos don't hold my interest--takes something special. But I have a ridiculous collection of a lot of older stuff--Ritts, Martel, etc., etc.,)

Music eras and artists vary

Want my credentials?

--I've engaged in three hour debates defending the many merits of the Star Wars prequels (and if anyone dares assail "Revenge of the Sith," I go bonkers).

--Whenever I find myself in weird situations, I construct narrations in the style of Rod Serling.

--I've written my own creation myths (yeah, just for the hell of it).

--I had something of a religious experience watching "Fellowship of the Ring"; two years later, I attended the trilogy marathon. (Have you ever spent 14 hours in a movie theater?)

--I've been on the Dean's List for seven of eight semesters, and I'm in several college honor societies. (If you're curious: no, I didn't go to keg parties. I had better things to do than converse with the banal, future yuppies of America.)

Plenty of geeks and munchies. It was worth it. Thank you Mr Jackson.

I love Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Final Fantasy.

Your a geek.

I haven't yet come to terms with it though.

Can I still participate? :)

Beyond all that I do.... My wife has this little quote she likes to tell all her girlfriends...

"I married an Engineer... everyone should have one"... nuff said. *smile.

MZr7

And damned proud of it. :woohoo:

on my home computer. These days I am into Linux and Unix.

I am also a wannabe jazz geek, but I have to offer my obeisances to progmom in this regard. :) I know my place, and it's as a computer geek.

Computers.
Sci-fi.
Games.
Comics.
Math.

The works.

IT geek by day, music/literature/sci-fi/wine/beer geek by night. I own every original Star Wars figure (the Kenner ones from the 1970s). The nooks and crannies of my brain are filled with useless trivial historical and geographical and cultural knowledge.

:-)

I am an engineer who works with other geeks...

for instance...one of my coworker's halloween costume was this number

6.022*10^23


....pasted on his shirt...do you know what he was?

If I'm correct, it's because I googled it. :)

:D

We like to spend lazy evenings having anime marathons. This Saturday we're uber-excited because the NY public library is having a special exhibit of Medieval and Rennisance illuminated texts.. ooh, medieval times!

lost points on the travel and sports and popular with opposite sex. :P I think the test should've added points for having a calculator within arm's reach at any given moment.

Have my comic book collection, D&D hardbacks, CD-ROM games, a fair sci-fi/fantasy collection, along with a closet full of garb (I'll be scaring the locals all weekend :D ). Watch Miguzi and Toonami and anime at my brother's house (he's at least Level 4, a true game fanatic and anime collector)

though I only scored 180 (non-geek) on the geek test above.

I play RPGs (D20 D&D, Star Wars, also played Vampire briefly - plus we're probably going to be starting a Serenity game soon) - like Star Trek, into micronations, have a vampire thing...

and I'm engaged to a woman who's a MUCH bigger geek than I am...RPGs, comics, Babylon 5, former computer programmer...and colors a web comic...for money.

Geeks of the world, unite!

And yeah, I'm proud. :)

Everyone I ever dated was a geek except my husband!!

Well, I suppose.:crazy:

Now bird watching, that's normal.

Yes, I AM a geek.

Oh, I thought you said Greeks....