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Would you consider yourself a 'geek'?

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RunForTheHills

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I don't think having a mum as a librarian makes you geeky at all... :lol:

 

Well I havn't skipped ahead any years,and I havn't REALLY built my own computer, but I am on a multimedia course, which involves a lot of techy, animation and sound design stuff, soooo... "Sorta", maybe?

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chuck kottke

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:rolleyes:Justin, that makes you a natural philosopher, but not a geek! (well, maybe a Greek, but no geek:laugh3:). Personally, I love to figure things out in physics, working out the problems on paper - energy balances and such. I want to know how the world really works, not be just mystified by not knowing, but to be awed by discovery.. Although, there is a part of me that just wants to enjoy, without questioning what I am enjoying. A balance in all things I feel is best.:juggle::curtain:

But being one-dimensional isn't the case with anyone really - it's just a part of who we are..

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Bonus_mosher

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My friends always compare me with Ross off friends,

because aparently I'm a nerd and speak in high pitches when I'm shocked about something.

 

they also give me alot of greif for being as lame as JD off scrubs.

 

I think They're both win win for me,

because I love both chracters,

so I voted yeah...

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chuck kottke

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Bose-Einstein Condensate of matter. Electron Fog. Hey, where would we be without the dreamers? Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. An ounce of brains is worth a ton of brawn. And who said this: "Give me a long enough lever arm, and I will move the planet."

My view is that we are all important. Each is a facet of the gemstone called humanity, and each adds to the dazzle of the whole.

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Marisa

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Hey, listen you Michigan Mitten Resident, without us "technical experts" you would still be making horse buggies instead of autos!:P

 

 

:laugh3: Don't get me wrong. I'm a super mega geekoid nerd dork. And I love them right back. Geeks are sexy. :smart:

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Space Cadet

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Yeah! :dance: *points at avatar*

 

If that isn't enough... erm let's just say I'm so obsessed with Middle Earth (or more accurately Arda) that I've studied Elvish...

 

But I think the term "geek" should be clarified, since some people around here seem to think it means "nerd".

 

A geek is a person who is unusually enthusiastic about something. A nerd is a loser who has high intelligence but who is very socially awkward. The two go together sometimes, but they aren't the same thing.

 

I think it's safe to say most regulars around here are music geeks.

I'm definatly a scifi/fantasy geek- LotR conventions and all. A little bit of a tech geek. Rapidly turning into a music geek, though I certainly didn't used to be. Have lots of friends who are anime geeks, though I never got into it myself.

 

And yeah, I am a bit of a nerd too. :embarassed:

 

But my point is, geekdom is something to be proud of.

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ApproximatelyInfinite

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Yeah! :dance: *points at avatar*

 

If that isn't enough... erm let's just say I'm so obsessed with Middle Earth (or more accurately Arda) that I've studied Elvish...

 

But I think the term "geek" should be clarified, since some people around here seem to think it means "nerd".

 

A geek is a person who is unusually enthusiastic about something. A nerd is a loser who has high intelligence but who is very socially awkward. The two go together sometimes, but they aren't the same thing.

 

I think it's safe to say most regulars around here are music geeks.

I'm definatly a scifi/fantasy geek- LotR conventions and all. A little bit of a tech geek. Rapidly turning into a music geek, though I certainly didn't used to be. Have lots of friends who are anime geeks, though I never got into it myself.

 

And yeah, I am a bit of a nerd too. :embarassed:

 

But my point is, geekdom is something to be proud of.

 

i agree with everything you said there! i think geekdom is definitely something to be proud of as well; i think it's something to cherish, because in my generation at this time, a huge number of people are just apathetic airheads with no real passion or interest in anything besides their circle of "friends" and their little teenage romances. blargh. give me books, music and movies any day of the week, please.

 

what is the definition of dork, then? i wonder if it's interchangeable for "geek" or "nerd," because i get called a dork quite frequently, though i count myself as a geek rather than a nerd.

 

so yes, i am DEFINITELY a geek and have been my whole life with various things: space and NASA, the US political system, MUSIC, and now the creation and analysis of film and TV. but i get really really geeky about quite specific things, like coldplay, radiohead, the beatles, the edgar wright/simon pegg movies, the kite runner, etc etc. so yes, HUGE geek right here.

 

i haven't built a computer, but i have written a screenplay, built various things like a deck, a mini-house, and a swimming pool, and i've read a large portion of the ficition section of my town's library. and my parents were engineers-turned-astronomers, and i did skip a grade as well (well, there's a long story with that).

 

so: YES

:smart: :book2: :scholar:

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Darlene_Ihnfsa

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there are only science/technology/maths geeks here?

 

I consider myself a cultural geek (cinema, history, arts, music, philosophy, literature), yes i'm proud of it.

my main interest are mythology, learn languages, know about historial periods in general, and about cultural periods too (romanticism and renaisance in particular, something similar to oratory... i mean i always want and try to use the proper terms for things to i refer to when speaking.

 

i was close to had had some problems in class for that, as my mates always are :o when i say something... because what i say is always shocking so it opens an arguing always but i end up winning all debates.

 

i've been always ahead my classmates on those fields of knowledge, so i won my teachers respect for that, as i was the one that knew the subjects almost as much as them... in fact many times they asked me about some thing in particular when they don't remember it, or even give me the chance to explain some things to my mates (happened many times in literature class, history, english and french).

 

for that teachers respect once a mate told me i was the teachers pet.. :confused: ...

 

(btw i've been talking about it quite recently with my father :thinking:)

 

(does it can be considered as be a geek?).

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