Nerd/Geek Discussions

[elisedance]

welll, I for one just learned 7 things this morning all ready

[Lioness]

And yet again I've proved myself to be nerdy, to yet another one of my teachers.
Today in science I was the first person to answer a question, and it was one where most other people were just sitting there looking confused. Really easy if you actually listen in science and psychology: 'What is quantitative data'. I mean, c'mon. She then asked if anyone knew what qualitative data was, and BF piped up with the answer.
So now she apparently has a 'pair of smart cookies' in her class. I'm happy BF is there - we have races to see who can finish the questions on time, so it keeps me working hard instead of slacking off. Yay for molar mass and learning it in one lesson.

She's a really good teacher, though she did call BF 'darling' and scare him. But he gets scared of stuff like that
I just sit there and feel him suffer. He was cringing inside, I know.

[Bordertangoman]

DID DID you hear that scientists are planning to observe the Yosemite redwoods for the next 50- 100 years as tleast to ascertain why they are dying prematurely and not reproduicing ;

now that is devotion;

bow bow bow

[elisedance]

DID DID you hear that scientists are planning to observe the Yosemite redwoods for the next 50- 100 years as tleast to ascertain why they are dying prematurely and not reproduicing ;

now that is devotion;

bow bow bow

...I want that research grant.  50-100 years?

[Bordertangoman]

you might need a tree gene implant if you hope to live that long; not that I'm saying you're old or anything....

[elisedance]

good. 
just good.

[Bordertangoman]

xylem cambium and phloem

[elisedance]

Isn't that a woody guthrie song?

[QPO]

Bumping this up for the NERDS amongst us 

[samina]

I am still trying to find out if I am a Nerd, a Geek or neither

you're a ballroom geek? meh... not really. those are the ones who will debate ad nauseum about the exact foot position at the exact curvature of swing at the exact articulation of hip at the exact angle to the floor at the exact... well, you know what i mean. 

me, i'm a computer validation geek, currently happily on hiatus from that... and a Metaphysical & Manifestational Principles geek, for sure. 

[QPO]

I am just a geek full stop!. be it ballroom or normal. ok I might not be into the true geek stuff but I am not the normal.,, what ever that is 

[samina]

every time i see "geek" i think i'm seeing "greek"... which i most certainly am.

[elisedance]

I guess I'm a bit unusual - I'm a scientist and I love facts and detalis but not really a true geek.  I don't (at least as I see 'geek') bury myself in details for the sake of it...

I like this from Wiki:
:. In a 2007 interview on The Colbert Report, Richard Clarke said the difference between nerds and geeks is "geeks get it done."[3] Julie Smith defined a geek as "a bright young man turned inward, poorly socialized, who felt so little kinship with his own planet that he routinely traveled to the ones invented by his favorite authors, who thought of that secret, dreamy place his computer took him to as cyberspace—somewhere exciting, a place more real than his own life, a land he could conquer, not a drab teenager's room in his parents' house."[4] "Geeks in suits clothing" is phrase which has been used for IT technical stars which also have knowledge about business needs.:

wait a mo... only a real geek would have done that...

[Lioness]

I'm a gaming geek, and an education nerd.

Well, a real life gaming geek. Not computer games, I suck at them. But I am certainly D&D geeky.

As for education nerd: I love English, I enjoy learning, I love almost every subject I take (chemistry gets the love-hate relationship). The teachers are awesome, and I respect them for putting up with the majority of the students.

And people look at me oddly when they off-handedly suggest picking on the teachers and I give them a flat out 'no'

Yeah. Nerd is me.

[SwingWaltz]

I'm a dance geek.