Don’t you just amaze yourself sometimes? I was getting a piece of baloney out of a multi-pack of lunchmeat yesterday. The baloney was in between the turkey and ham so it was kinda difficult to pull out without tearing it.
Honest to OG, this is what I thought to my self:
“Ain’t got much tensile strength, does it?”
:dubious:
Please tell me that normal people don’t think things like that.
Another thought I had one time: I was looking for the last roll of paper towels in the cabinet. I had a new 4-pack but I didn’t want to open them if I had one left from before. I thought to myself: “Where’s the existing roll?”
… you’re at a concert, the bassist hits a note you can feel through your body and you think, “Cool. That’s the natural frequency of my chest.”
… you see nothing dirty about shafting, lubrication, and power screws; after all, they’re machine components.
… you estimate the time to cook a roast by first assuming it is a sphere.
…you dream about sitting in on National Security Council meetings.
…your idea of a hot date is a discussion of the prospects for the democratization of China.
…you’re on a first-name basis with most of your political science professors.
…you honestly can’t understand why your friends don’t want to go to a lecture by the former ambassador to Saudi Arabia in the middle of a beautiful spring day.
…you use the words “traditionalism”, “deterrence”, “compellence”, “vital interests”, and “fungible” in everyday speech.
…your plan for getting a one-night stand involves circulating at dances/clubs/parties and noting the locations, mannerisms, clothing styles, and other factors that seem to aid in the efforts of other men to elicit sexual behavior from women, and then trying to use that data to generate some general principles for use in picking up women. If you enjoy doing this, then you’re really a geek.
Yes, I know I already posted for “political science geek” - but I’m also interesting in this sort of thing, the fields are closely related - and I need to get my post count up.
OMG! This -exact- subject came up at Thanksgiving about 4 years ago, and since then, every year, the ‘Spherical turkey’ joke comes out of the woodwork while folks are enjoying the cranberries and stuffing!
Among my circle of friends, there’s no question weather any of us are geeks, it’s just how many different kinds of geek each of us are: Trek geek, computer geek, medieval geek, science geek,…The list just goes on and on.
I had just started working at a computer shop and was trying to get to know my coworkers. One of them had this exact sign on his office door so, deciding to use this as an icebreaker, I smiled and I said “I like that sign on your door”
Him: What sign on my door?
(Note that this sign was the ONLY thing on his door)
Me: You know, “There are two types of people in the world…”
Him: ::confused look::
At this point, still trying to hold a smile, I turned around and pointed at the sign.
Him: Oh. That says ten. “There are ten types of people in the world…”
…you see a sign near the freeway that reads “MOWERS AHEAD” and instantly think of Andrew Marvell.
…you use phrases like “symbolic self-emasculation” in casual conversation.
…you’ve been to a Shakespeare performance and spotted all the cuts. Or, worse yet, recognized it when the actors used a Folio reading rather than a quarto reading.
…you’ve read Spenser and enjoyed it.
…you’ve read Joyce and enjoyed it.
…you’ve read Derrida and enjoyed it.
…one of your ambitions is to edit an Arden edition.
You are fascinated by reading the history of the state highway system
In your free time, you read two state history texts simultaneously in case one book neglects to cover something in satisfactory detail
You do independent research on a particular issue the state history texts seemed to gloss over just because you’re curious (e.g., why the state boundary was put THERE)
You enjoy reading about state land use patterns
You think visiting Fresno would actually be fun, just to go see what it’s like
You’ve read over the inaugural addresses of every governor
You cried tears of joy when you first walked into the Golden State Museum
You correct other peoples memos and various writings because you can’t help compiling/ debugging even the English language in your head
When hand writing notes, you end complete thoughts with a semi colon (C/C++ and Java programmers). You also tend to indent alot.
When buying a new computer you buy the highest end game playing machine, but never play any games because…
You run Windows Advanced Server, at least 3 databases(SQL Server, Oracle, mySQL), 2 web servers (IIS, Apache), and a few middleware servers on your “just playing around” machine.
When you ask someone a question you say “Query:”
You think code is “elegant”
You get paid to misspell words and abuse punctuation
“Hello World” was your first program; you dream that “Run World” will be your last
