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I am such an unrepentant nerd

By georgeha (Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 10:12:53 PM EST) slashdot, nerds, geek (all tags)

yes, it's even nerdier than getting a first post in today's Slashdot poll.

Poll: nerdiest achievement?

I'm creating the next generation.

Ten year old is studying chemistry (she asked me what C6H12O6 was), and I showed her the dihydrogen monoxide page. Tomorrow she's going to troll her friends with chemistry.

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Poll

Nerdiest achievement?

-	first post in slashdot	8%
-	in an article on slashdot	0%
-	being in band, in high school	16%
-	$thousands in long distance bbs calls	4%
-	hacking Ma Bell to make long distance bbs calls	12%
-	writing something open source	12%
-	bragging about writing something open source	16%
-	contributing to the Lunix kernel	8%
-	writing a computer book	4%
-	getting ISDN for your first broadband	20%
-	still having your first greenbar output	4%
-	raising the next generation of nerds	16%
-	wipo	16%
-	get an article on k5	4%
-	win a major spelling bee	0%
-	attend a science fiction con	29%
-	run a science fiction con	4%
-	write science fiction	4%
-	write Kirk/Spock slash	0%
-	wrote a language	8%
-	wrote an emacs module for your own language	0%
-	one digit husi id	0%

Votes: 24
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I am such an unrepentant nerd | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

wipo by dev trash (2.00 / 0) #1 Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 10:29:00 PM EST

Had an article on K5.

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Click

: Seconded nt by Phage (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 04:44:03 AM EST

Founder member Golgafrinchan 'B' Ark
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Poll should be multiselect. (nt) by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #2 Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 10:29:49 PM EST

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_{ウセーバラケダ}

Multi select would be good but by johnny (4.00 / 3) #3 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 12:11:31 AM EST

wipo:

I was going to say that breaking into the local high school (which I did not even attend) on Friday nights in the 60's in order to steal cyber 6000 cycles to run a FORTRAN 66 program to solve SOMA cubes (an early Rubic's cube kind of thing) -- instead of cruising around trying to get laid like you're supposed to do on Friday nights when you're in high shcool -- was my nerdiest accomplishment.

But, alas, I can top that. On a fine Saturday last year, a beautiful sunny day in Silicon Valley, I spent 9 hours inside a building on the AOL campus participating in the Dojo hackathon. I did this voluntarily, as a grown man -- cannot claim teenage confusion or hormonal imbalance. It's so fucking pathetic I could cry. Oh well.
... this is dreamworld after all... it isn't? Shit.

I have been named my team's by MartiniPhilosopher (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 12:55:08 AM EST

"Nerd's Nerd" for the following reason:

I told them I had talked to Captain Crunch during my college days. Which is true. In my freshman year, I found one of his old webpages. Never amounted to anything other than a short back and forth of: "You're really the real Captain?", "Yes, yes I am.", "That is so cool!", "If you wish to continue this conversation, may I suggest you start using PGP?".

Now, to top this, I had to first explain why the good Captain was named such. And then had to explain that explanation. At which point all of the rest of the people on the team simply gave up attempting to out-nerd me.

Which brings us to Sunday night.

The leader of the Sunday night gaming group was telling everyone how great his new .gif animating software was and how stoked it make him now that he can do that easily and simply.

My brain's first response?

"If I were having to design that sort of functionality, how would I "animate" an image file?"

At which point it went about attempting to design the process for animating a .gif file.

Until I stopped it from going through with it.

Whenever I hear one of those aforementioned douche bags pontificate about how dangerous [...] videogames are I get a little stabby. --Wil Wheaton.

WIPO: by ammoniacal (4.00 / 4) #5 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 02:04:27 AM EST

Wining a majer speeling be.

General rules are: All skirts no lower then [sic] two inches below the knee (unless it's for Church) --Travis Frey

: Major Spelling Bee? by Bob Abooey (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 09:09:15 AM EST

Were you on ESPN?
Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob
How's my blogging: Call me at 209.867.5309 to complain.
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Running a TLD by Dr Thrustgood (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 05:28:11 AM EST

And having a four-letter email address was pretty nerdy kool, innit geezar

I HAD A 3-FIGURE ID ON HUSI /NT by fleece (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 05:46:12 AM EST

: I have a 3 digit UID on K5 by Greener (2.00 / 0) #21 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 01:12:42 PM EST

but I'm not the only HuSi'ite that does.

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nerd confession by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 05:55:21 AM EST

I ran a (unsuccessful) science fiction convention.

Ah... by bob6 (2.00 / 0) #10 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 08:33:13 AM EST

Wrote a toy language... wait a minute... and wrote an emacs mode for the said language.

Also I corrected a CS teacher. She had said that the etymology of "algorithm" was algos, which meant other in greek and rythm. I'm serious, no further explanation. I've never seen someone so wrong and so pompous at the same time.

Cheers.

wipo: One digit UID on HuSi by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #11 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 08:38:45 AM EST

Had first post in slashdot stories a few times.

Haven't had $thousands in long distance bbs calls, mainly because I stuck with local BBS's.

I managed to get several articles to FP on k5.

Attended several science fiction cons. Highly recommend reading "Bimbos of the Death Sun" to anyone who's been to cons.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

7? by Bob Abooey (2.00 / 0) #12 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 09:07:56 AM EST

PSHAW.

NOOBIE.

BWUAHAHAHAHAHA! 7? MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob

How's my blogging: Call me at 209.867.5309 to complain.
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Yeah, well, you're an Old Fart in the online world by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #15 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 09:30:33 AM EST

Which means that you probably find Britney to be too young for you. Unlike people like me and Hulver, who think she's a hottie.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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Britney is sooooo 2003 by Bob Abooey (4.00 / 1) #22 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 01:40:56 PM EST

I've moved on long ago - Frankly Jessica Alba has always been 10 times hotter and doesn't have all the emotional baggage.

Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob

How's my blogging: Call me at 209.867.5309 to complain.
[ Parent ]

: True, true. by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #23 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 01:50:07 PM EST

She's no Alyson Hannigan but...

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}
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The nerdiest things I've ever done by lm (4.00 / 1) #14 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 09:12:42 AM EST

In order from greater nerdiness to lesser nerdiness:

Participated in `live action' role playing games where you dress up like your character and beat each other up with padded weapons. While far short of the SCA ...
Used the word `concatenate' in a natural conversation unrelated to anything IT.
Bragged about #2.
Had the person I was bragging to about #2 say to me that the word `concatenate' just happens to be in the academic text she's currently reading and now she doesn't have to look up the word because I've told her what it means.
Browse through unabridged dictionaries for fun.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic

WIPO by barooo (4.00 / 1) #16 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 10:41:08 AM EST

I was the captain of my high school Scholastic Bowl team. :) And we missed prom to go to the state championships (not that I'd have had a date anyway).

Hex Edited Red Baron II by cam (2.00 / 0) #17 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 11:09:55 AM EST

to add the Australian Flying Corps (and the Belgian, French and German Navies too IIRC).

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic

: I sort of did that with Capture the Flag by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #18 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 11:14:43 AM EST

from Carr software, I forgot my password. I didn't edit anything, I just read it.
I have hex edited PCL files.

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nerdi-EST? by StackyMcRacky (2.00 / 0) #19 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 11:22:56 AM EST

geez, i wouldn't even know where to begin.

: going to sf cons to meet guys? by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #20 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 11:38:58 AM EST

Wonder woman cosplay?

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Also by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #24 Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 03:10:51 PM EST

Read all the appendices in LotR several times.

WIPO: Had a USENET group named after me by MohammedNiyalSayeed (4.00 / 1) #25 Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 04:19:18 PM EST

Or maybe "Have my own psychotic blogosphere stalker" or "mentioned in the New York Times over some internet bullshit that no one cares about except the vain target of my derision, and 'her' 'blog buddies'". Hard to choose, really.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.

: It's frickin sad by georgeha (4.00 / 1) #26 Thu Apr 26, 2007 at 04:32:16 PM EST

nowadays just knowing about USENET makes you a nerd.

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