You Might Be A Geek If ...............

Actually, mine is “The violence is not realistic”

Addendum : You Might Be A Geek If…
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the new tape isnt as sticky as the old tape

Not only are you a geek, but your life is filled with geekishness if…

…your children won’t let you have the dictionary or thesaurus because they know you will become absorbed for hours

…you’ve raised your children to be so persnickety about grammar that they correct you if you speak incorrectLY

…you read textbooks for fun

…you can’t leave the public library without making two trips to the car; library fines are a line item in the family budget

…you use terms like “line item in the family budget”

…the best treat day at your office is March 14, at 1:59 pm (all 9 kinds of pie that Harold liked best)

…when your son could barely walk, he took a newspaper sword and lisped “hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.”

…you go out to dinner at a nice restaurant and everyone in the family has a book with them

Seldon:

Or, you’re pissed anyone else passed, because everyone else memorizes equations while you’ve just been “solving for the units” since the end of the first grading period.

… you convert everything into metric/Kelvins in head, instantaneously, even if it’s just to remember it, because it’s easier.
… you say “Kelvins” and become noticably ired when someone says “degrees Kelvin.”
… you know what a Mantissa is and how to use sig figs with it
… you developed your own “change of base” formula way back in trignometry because the teacher’s couldn’t be programmed into a calculator/only worked by going through base 10, but never used it because that took took longer than doing it in your head.
… people in later courses still use it, it’s now part of the final in all introductory programming courses, and all of the students just there because they have shiny new computers in the room that can play games in school begin to “fall in love with you” about two weeks beforehand, regardless of gender, because they honestly believe anyone that geeky has to be desperate.
… the inevitable “your friends refuse to go to movies with you anymore because” list is longer than this box
You ARE a European History geek if
Looking through the TV guide before you turn on the TV, you see something about 1865 and you’re upset it’s about Lincoln’s assassination instead of the Crimean War.
You waited for half an hour because you consider the whole war funny enough to be worth it.

I’m a geek of all trades, master of none.

might be…spending a child-free Saturday night, alone with my husband, Drachillix, sipping margaritas in our night clothes in the back bedroom…side-by-side at our own computers at our individual desks, Doping.
We’re networked…that’s romantic, right?

…you spend copious amounts of time planning, designing, and implementing a system for accessing resources, through the Internet, on one’s home network from anywhere.

…you run Kismet and search for wireless networks when in the car.
+2 if you find encryped networks and seriously consider cracking them.

…you name your computers.

…you not only participate in a MOO, but build and run one as well.

But you can use some of that stuff in your robotics projects. Especially the parts ripped out of old printers. Oh, how I rejoice when a printer bites the dust - - - stepper motor heaven!

You are a geek if you read that the bologna…

—And think, 'Ya know, I could hang a slice on the Instron and find out exactly what the tensile is…"

—You’ve ever paid 50pp for a KEI and PoTG so you can solo the last 20% of xp to make your lvl.

—You’ve ducked out of a night of partying with friends so you could find out what happens in the next chapter of the book you’re reading.

Ahhh. This month marks my second birthday, what have I been missing?

Hmmm, birthday away, or birthday inside?

If away, first off grats, and second off you’re missing some badass mana regen buffs that are readily available in the Nexus 24/7 for a small donation. The stuff is so worth it.

If inside, where the hell have you been? Extended vacation in TD?

This IS the geek thread, right? Hopefully the cutie doper ladies wont come here, unless of course they dig us geeks :wink:

Birthday in the EverCrack Anonymous sense of the word.

I was a Rogue (played every class beyond lvl 25 at one point or another but I was always a rogue at heart ;)) so I’m not really missing the mana buffs, and unless you’re talking about a server, I don’t even know what The Nexus is :).

I do know that A LOT has changed since I left. I never even made it to Velious. It was a few months old when I left but I was too busy in Kunark to bother at the time.

It’s a whole different ballgame now. My main (Wiz) started out just after Kunark was released, and eventually made his way to lvl 55 over the span of about two years. I just started out my baby Cleric less than two months ago and he’s already at 35. Those mana buffs help you even if you’re mellee, cause your healers can go longer without a med. If you have the free time, now’s a good time to come back. Course, if you don’t have the free time, stay the hell away :slight_smile:

Hmmm, I think I have just transcended ‘Geek’ and progressed on to ‘Complete and Irreconcileable Dork.’ Bah, I gives a damn :slight_smile:

aa… HEM.
Let the record show that the Original Poster is a Cute Doper Lady.

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Another IB geek here. :smiley:

-you spend more time sleeping in class than at home.

-you wonder about things like what would happen if your car traveled at the speed of light and your turned your lights on.

-you footnote everything

-you think the world is a hexagon

-you sign checks with your candidate number

-it rains and you carry your umbrella over your backpack instead of yourself.

-you see symbolism in real life and start to analyze it before realizing it’s insane

You may be an internet geek if…

You know more URLs than street addresses.
Your pet has a web page.
You send an e-mail to someone sitting next to you.
You get up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your email on your way back to bed.
You chat with someone while talking to them on the phone.

If you worked out a formula to remember stopping distances for your driving theory test, because you find it easier to remember formulae and plug numbers in on the fly, rather than just a few numbers…

Ravesaint , I think it’s safe to say that any Cutie Doper Lady who posts on this thread is a geek herself. I certainly am! :smiley:

And of course I dig geeks. “Normal” people do not comprehend the Geekly World!

Ya know, QB, I’ve been thinking about that. Reckon how many Cutie Doper Ladies he miffed with that statement? :stuck_out_tongue:

You might be a Medieval Geek if you…:

…ever chased a burglar. While naked. With a sword. And you are okay with it…

…have ever corrected your King about some of the finer points of the Knight Templar order, and their role in the Crusades.

…have ever contemplated building a matchlock pistol. Because no one sells the damned things any more…

Ditto for a bombard. Or you even know what one IS.

You have a photo of yourself in your cube. In garb.

Your boss cuts out any medieval based cartoons and gives them to you to put up in your cube.
You might be a Unix Geek if you…:

…laughed at the shell, C and perl references in this thread!

…if you realize that EVERY line of Vanilla Toasts’ post applies to you!

…if you use vi. With joy. And consider anyone who doesn’t a “Johnny~Come~Lately”.

…if the Unix Admins for your company come ask YOU for help on different, esoteric problems!

…you obfu perl code. Just for fun. Or job security.

…you know two backdoors onto your system, all the security holes, and can bring up a root prompt in a matter of seconds, and you AREN’T the administrator.

…you have ever written a four line shell script that warns you when your boss logs on. Or off. And schedule it.

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I owned a Mercury Zephyr with a flakey engine control computer where this actually worked…

Now wait a minute!!! As an academic exercise for a Data Networking class, I’m working on a remote database server that uses a web browser as a terminal. I have SEVERAL places where I use C to write output pages from scratch as HTML files. I HAVE programmed in HTML…

They work just fine, too, but look pretty sucky

-You caught yourself mentally classifying the soil at a graveside service for a relative. Using USDA classification.

-You’ve ever assumed a person weighs a kip to make the math easier.

-You added an RPN calculator program to your Palm Pilot because you can’t use any other kind.

-The deck you built on your house is capable of supporting a helicopter (you know, in case of injured partygoers).

-You know what “kip” and “RPN” mean.