Nerd, no.
Geek, yes. And that’s a good thing. Really.
Now if you own one of these you’re a total nerd and I envy you.
Okay a little late to the thread but the following should hopefully define where you stand.
I myself, work in the computer industry as a Unix System Admin, know far too much about RAID and until I read the link, had not heard of “furries” and now am a little sadder that I have.
Or his movie, Help! My Son is a Nerd, in which he is horrified to learn his son is a nerd?
I went to college at a school that was schizophrenic. Half the students were studying some kind of engineering. The other half were, mostly, liberal arts students. I had many friends on the engineering side of campus where I learned what was the ultimate definition of the word “nerd.” A nerd was somebody who knew all 25 ways to spell the word “nerd.”
nerd
nerde
knird
knerde
knirde
nurd
nurde
knurd
knurde
nerdd
nirdd
nurdd
knerdd
knirdd
knurdd
nerdde
nurdde
knurdde
nirde
nirdde
knirdde
well, you get the idea.
And, of course, the fact that I got my picture taken with MC Chris confirms my own geekiness (well, that, the D&D playing, the ability to identify any ST:TNG episode in ten seconds or less, and most of my other hobbies).
A friend of mine, while more hippie and less geeky, has an even geekier MC Chris story. Chris, winded after a song, borrowed my friend’s asthma inhaler and took a few drags before moving on to the next song. After the show he signed the inhaler.
I’ve been in the nerd-closet for a long time. Recently, though, I’ve returned to college, and when we were told to introduce ourselves using a show-and-tell approach (I’m in elementary education), I decided to break out of the closet.
So I brought, among other items, a set of polyhedral dice. “And last,” I said, “I’m really, really nerdy. These are a set of dice used for playing Dungeons and Dragons”–
and a gasp went up around the room. It was impressive.
Daniel
Nird.
Nerd vs. geek
Nerds play classical piano.
Geeks play art-noise synthesizer.
Nerds talk obsessively.
Geeks achieve obsessively.
Nerds wear “nice” clothes with wrinkles and stains.
Geeks wear scruffy clothes that don’t show them.
The bigger the glasses, the bigger the nerd.
The smaller the glasses, the bigger the geek.
A geek can imitate a nerd.
A nerd can’t imitate a geek.
Jesus! That nerdy guy at the start, rapping in his car, you’re right! When me and my S.O. watched this, she nearly wet herself laughing, saying “hey! He’s just like you!” Thats what probably started this whole identity crisis. looks like I definatly can be considered a nerd, or a geek. I look at both terms as being basically the same.
I do remember some Geek/Nerd defining arguments, though, which I always thought were pretty funny:
Nerds would like to meet William Shatner, and chat about his career.
Geeks would like to meet Captain Kirk, and chat about the shield system on the enterprise.
Nerds wonder what sex in zero gravity would be like.
Geeks wonder what sex would be like.
BTW, did I mention I’m a published playwright of horror theatre?
Got to count for something!
Why am I picturing something from “West Side Story”?
:: snap snap snap :: Listen man, you got a pocket protector, and like sci-fi. . .
. . . you gotta choooooooose.
Tripler
I am both nerdy and geeky. But I have guns, which makes me sort of a ‘redneck geek-nerd’.
You have some nerdish qualities but I wouldn’t call you a nerd, perse. And hell, if You can bench 200 lbs I bet you’re a hot nerd- the best kind!
I, on the other hand, am a proud, female(!) nerd. I was one of the people standing outside Borders at midnight dressed up like someone from the Harry Potter books, have watched every Star Wars movie in a day, go to bed at 10 PM on a Saturday night while reading, and I study latin in my spare time.
But [minus the Harry Potter shirts and a shirt that says “Speling is my fortay”] I don’t look nerdy, so I guess it balances it out.
What’s wrong with being geeky? I find geeks to be really sexy. My SO is an uber geek, but he’s a geek that gets a good deal of hot, sweaty lovin so no complaints from his end or mine! If you have a girlfriend, then quit worrying about what she thinks you are, just be happy that you have someone who likes you for you. And if you’re feeling like it, use it to your advantage:
You: honey…I bought a new comic book today…I’m pretty happy. How about a backrub for you tonight then let’s hit the sack a little early? 
Your SO: why dearest, you’ve been getting so many comics lately! hops into bed
Haha I’m too geeky for my own good…
I have to agree with most others, you are a geek. It’s no big deal. I’m a geek (a girl geek and proud of it, too). My boyfriend is a geek. Most of the people I know are geeks…
A couple of points about geek love:
There is no love like geek love.
In the land of the geeks, the man with the girlfriend is king (I told that to my boyfriend after we started dating. He just smiled and laughed.)