Is it cool to be a nerd/geek?

herisson · 25-07-2012 04:36PM

I love being a nerd!! And i love nerdy guys!!

Kev_2012 · 25-07-2012 04:36PM

I'm a software engineer,
I listen to metal, house, rap, pop, rock, drum and bass, and basically every type of music,
I love sport and play rugby and soccer,
I'm very interested in astronomy, geography, physics and technology and I like star trek.

Haven't a ****ing clue what label to slap on there!

puffishoes · 25-07-2012 04:37PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

A man who has an interest in Sports? Ye gads!!!!

water sports :cool:

puffishoes · 25-07-2012 04:37PM

Kev_2012 wrote: »

I'm a software engineer,
I listen to metal, house, rap, pop, rock, drum and bass, and basically every type of music,
I love sport and play rugby and soccer,
I'm very interested in astronomy, geography, physics and technology and I like star trek.

Haven't a ****ing clue what label to slap on there!

ADHD

AnonoBoy · 25-07-2012 04:37PM

foxyboxer wrote: »

A man who has an interest in Sports? Ye gads!!!!

I know! What a weirdo!

Bipolar Joe · 25-07-2012 04:39PM

No, it's not cool to be a geek or a nerd. It's cool to appear to be one. Stuff like the big bang theory isn't marketed to geeks or nerds, it's marketed to morons. It's just another fad. The new wave of them don't know anything about comic books, they don't know shit about technology beyond the surface, they don't understand some of the most basic level about science, maths, so on so forth. Would they sit down and teach themselves Pure Data? No. People want to APPEAR to be a geek, but looking like one and being one are different. Geeks put the hours in. The rest buy a t-shirt with a funny Java code written on it after someone explains to them why it's funny.

Kev_2012 · 25-07-2012 04:39PM

puffishoes wrote: »

ADHD

Can't suffer from a made up problem!

--Kaiser-- · 25-07-2012 04:41PM

Surely a cool nerd is an oxymoron?

Logical Fallacy · 25-07-2012 04:43PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

No, it's not cool to be a geek or a nerd. It's cool to appear to be one. Stuff like the big bang theory isn't marketed to geeks or nerds, it's marketed to morons. It's just another fad. The new wave of them don't know anything about comic books, they don't know shit about technology beyond the surface, they don't understand some of the most basic level about science, maths, so on so forth. Would they sit down and teach themselves Pure Data? No. People want to APPEAR to be a geek, but looking like one and being one are different. Geeks put the hours in. The rest buy a t-shirt with a funny Java code written on it after someone explains to them why it's funny.

Well said.

Wannabe geeks running around the place these days. ****ing Youtube and Torrents ruined it. Trying being a nerd in the 80's when you had to track down a magazine just to read about certain movies, then order them in from Japan.

"Look what I found on the internet!!!" - go **** yourself.

puffishoes · 25-07-2012 04:44PM

Kev_2012 wrote: »

Can't suffer from a made up problem!

who said it was a problem, or that your suffering!

Agricola · 25-07-2012 04:48PM

It seems theres even a hierarchy in nerd circles then!
I certainly never thought myself any programming languages, nor am I blessed with the greatest grasp of maths beyond the basics. I often chipped games consoles back in the day though. Repaired them too. Imported the odd title from Japan. I suppose I was a lightweight nerd. That'll do me!

Bipolar Joe · 25-07-2012 04:51PM

Agricola wrote: »

It seems theres even a hierarchy in nerd circles then!
I certainly never thought myself any programming languages, nor am I blessed with the greatest grasp of maths beyond the basics. I often chipped games consoles back in the day though. Repaired them too. Imported the odd title from Japan. I suppose I was a lightweight nerd. That'll do me!

You also use "Thought" in place of "Taught" which is bad anywhere, but inexcusable in geek / nerd circles.

There are levels of both, and there's a difference between the two, yeah, but in my experience, nerds are the worst for it.

Duggy747 · 25-07-2012 05:00PM

Scenario 1:

Person 1: "Lul, I play games on my phone all the time, I'm such a gamer nerd!"

Person 2: "Ohmagawd, so am I!!"

Scenario 2:

Person 1: "I own an Xbox / PS3 / PC for gaming"

Person 2: "Aren't you a bit old to be playing your little video games?"

studiorat · 25-07-2012 05:01PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Would they sit down and teach themselves Pure Data? No. People want to APPEAR to be a geek, but looking like one and being one are different. Geeks put the hours in. The rest buy a t-shirt with a funny Java code written on it after someone explains to them why it's funny.

Always wanted one those [loadbang] t-shirts. But would feel like a dick wearing it.

eth0 · 25-07-2012 05:05PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

The rest buy a t-shirt with a funny Java code written on it after someone explains to them why it's funny.

java code is never funny. Python, C and even assembly have the potential to be funny but never java

IloveConverse · 25-07-2012 05:07PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEiuEvTH_z4

Kev_2012 · 25-07-2012 05:17PM

eth0 wrote: »

java code is never funny. Python, C and even assembly have the potential to be funny but never java

#include "std.h"

tee hee :pac:

Ray Palmer · 25-07-2012 05:21PM

When younger I played sports and programmed. This was when each computer took different code common program languages a dream.
As a teenager I read comics from dark horse. Had long hair and wore black. Then wore flares and 70s clothes.
Now a collection of comic, video consoles, records, CDs and various collectibles. Wife says I am a nerd. She bases it on my knowledge of scifi, physics, construction. Being smart was never about being a nerd I am not socially or physically awkward.
Many former nerd interests have become mainstream. Mythbusters has more to do with nerd acceptance than big bang

Biggins · 25-07-2012 06:06PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

No...People want to APPEAR to be a geek, but looking like one and being one are different. Geeks put the hours in. The rest buy a t-shirt with a funny Java code written on it after someone explains to them why it's funny.

I take except to that.
I put a HELL of a lot of hours in - and have done over many years/decades and yes, I buy the geeky t-shirts too!
Don't write us all off with the same brush!

For computer geeks

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

If it weren’t for C, we’d all be programming in BASI and OBOL.

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurling down the highway.

An SQL statement walks into a bar and sees two tables. It approaches, and asks “may I join you?”

Q: Why is it that programmers always confuse Halloween with Christmas?
A: Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor

Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. It’s a hardware problem.

Two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, “So what’ll it be?”
The first string says, “I think I’ll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu”
“Please excuse my friend,” the second string says. “He isn’t null-terminated.”

“I’m not interrupting you, I’m putting our conversation in full-duplex mode.”
- Antone Roundy

A doctor, a civil engineer and a programmer are discussing whose profession is the oldest.
“Surely medicine is the oldest profession,” says the doctor. “God took a rib from Adam and created Eve and if this isn’t medicine I’ll be…”
The civil engineer breaks in:
“But before that He created the heavens and the earth from chaos. Now that’s civil engineering to me.”
The programmer thinks a bit and then says:
“And who do you think created chaos?”

csi vegas · 25-07-2012 07:00PM

Green Mile wrote: »

I agree,
these wimmen you speak of like all types of men. I read that a study was carried out on that species and they are attracted to different types of men, depending on their menstrual cycle whatever that is

This is true.

Mickeroo · 25-07-2012 07:05PM

Hazys wrote: »

Being a geek or nerd doesnt necessarily make you smart.

Being a hardman doenst necessarily make you dense either.

Pretty sure a nerd is smart by definition. You're right about geeks and hardmen though

csi vegas · 25-07-2012 07:33PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

No, it's not cool to be a geek or a nerd. It's cool to appear to be one.

Stuff like the big bang theory isn't marketed to geeks or nerds, it's marketed to morons. It's just another fad.
The new wave of them don't know anything about comic books, they don't know shit about technology beyond the surface, they don't understand some of the most basic level about science, maths, so on so forth. Would they sit down and teach themselves Pure Data? No. People want to APPEAR to be a geek, but looking like one and being one are different. Geeks put the hours in. The rest buy a t-shirt with a funny Java code written on it after someone explains to them why it's funny.

I agree with you almost whole heartedly however on the point of The Big Bang Theory I do not - for I am not a moron.

I understand existentially the lingo of which the cast speak and I repress a giggle now and then, even when alone (in advance of possible future need not to appear socially inept) and also I am a girl.

Should a genuine, certified geek happen along my path then I would gladly intervene with his biorythms and delight to be the muse of his aptitude, for where further education is concerned I am young and I have much to learn and although the eloquent way in which you articulate your vocabulary stirs up feelings of latent lust in my inner phyce, for casting such generalisations upon the fanbase of The Big Bang I shall now telepathically bend you over and smack you like a bítch.

Yours,

csi

csi vegas · 25-07-2012 07:38PM

Biggins wrote: »

I take except to that.
I put a HELL of a lot of hours in - and have done over many years/decades and yes, I buy the geeky t-shirts too!
Don't write us all off with the same brush!

For computer geeks

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

If it weren’t for C, we’d all be programming in BASI and OBOL.

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurling down the highway.

An SQL statement walks into a bar and sees two tables. It approaches, and asks “may I join you?”

Q: Why is it that programmers always confuse Halloween with Christmas?
A: Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft… and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor

Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. It’s a hardware problem.

Two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, “So what’ll it be?”
The first string says, “I think I’ll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu”
“Please excuse my friend,” the second string says. “He isn’t null-terminated.”

“I’m not interrupting you, I’m putting our conversation in full-duplex mode.”
- Antone Roundy

A doctor, a civil engineer and a programmer are discussing whose profession is the oldest.
“Surely medicine is the oldest profession,” says the doctor. “God took a rib from Adam and created Eve and if this isn’t medicine I’ll be…”
The civil engineer breaks in:
“But before that He created the heavens and the earth from chaos. Now that’s civil engineering to me.”
The programmer thinks a bit and then says:
“And who do you think created chaos?”

Ssshhhííít...blown away...

I will never argue with you again. Not that I ever did...

*hides*

Bipolar Joe · 25-07-2012 07:53PM

Biggins wrote: »

I take except to that.
I put a HELL of a lot of hours in - and have done over many years/decades and yes, I buy the geeky t-shirts too!
Don't write us all off with the same brush!

You put the hours in ∴ you are a geek. Get it?

csi vegas · 25-07-2012 08:00PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

You put the hours in ∴ you are a geek. Get it?

Hey, where's MY reply? I will be checking later. I expect a full reply.

Must run - CSI on 3e now, NEW (allegedly)...well it better be...

Bipolar Joe · 25-07-2012 08:04PM

csi vegas wrote: »

Hey, where's MY reply? I will be checking later. I expect a full reply.

Must run - CSI on 3e now, NEW (allegedly)...well it better be...

I still think it's an awful show and if you like it you are bad and should feel bad. It's the T.V version of the geeky chick who is all of a sudden totally not a geek when she takes off her glasses, lets her hair down and wears a shorter skirt.

Also they use Norton. Weak.

pragmatic1 · 25-07-2012 08:33PM

Don't know about being geeks but intelligent people have always impressed me more than sports people, musicians, actors, etc.

csi vegas · 26-07-2012 07:55AM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

I still think it's an awful show and if you like it you are bad and should feel bad. It's the T.V version of the geeky chick who is all of a sudden totally not a geek when she takes off her glasses, lets her hair down and wears a shorter skirt.

Also they use Norton. Weak.

My bad, but I am not bad and I don't feel bad (or unclean

)
but your loss

The new episodes on tonight were pretty good, done in a new way, different from the old/original format.
The only thing I don't like is at the start there is 'commentry' now "last time on csi" with the inevitable re-caps.
But who can argue with Ted Danson as an actor? Or Laurence Fishburne?
Yes, they were made for tv (before you say anything) and y'know - stick with what you know...

Also - are you a fan of Katy Perry?

Yes, Norton is písswater - my course leader once told me that free Avast or AVG are much more reliable than anything monetarily available, bar programming your own of course.

But let's not get into marketing here - if they do 'advocate' Norton on the show it's for the royalties. But you already know that. I hear your simple yet effective statement. I hear you.

ruthloss · 26-07-2012 09:35AM

Geek is the new chique.

Tomk1 · 26-07-2012 10:00AM

There's only two letters between cool and fool, d&e : after drink I thought I was cool, but just another fool.

Never a thrend follower, don't get the whole comic book thing, and no idea what a geek T-shirt is meant to be, but I like my cardigan, bought a Telescope with me confirmation-money, spent many great days typing assembly into a C64, and think PE in school was some kind of punishment against smart kids, to make not-so-smart-kids feel better. Once I had the joy of being joint last in a race, rather than just being last.

I agree that TBB is aimed at a mass audience, but sometimes there's a nugget that would just fly over most peoples heads, but don't watch it anymore.

As V goes from C => 0 Einstein => Newton

Is it cool to be a nerd/geek?

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