I am a geek because...

[Joe Matt]

Originally posted by MacZealot


I used aqua on my website.....

http://66.127.240.184/

that'll only work right now..
I also did this last night:

http://66.127.240.184/edg/index.html

It, glows.....

It's sooo

pretty....


I want to tuch it....

[MacZealot]

Originally posted by JosephM


It, glows.....

It's sooo

pretty....


I want to tuch it....

Yeah I wish they made aqua candy bars!

Could you IMAGINE what a life-sized aqua bubble would look like?!!?!?!? (drool)

[Joe Matt]

Originally posted by MacZealot


Yeah I wish they made aqua candy bars!

Could you IMAGINE what a life-sized aqua bubble would look like?!!?!?!? (drool)

It would look like those soft snow-globes you can pick up at airports.

[QtKt]

- I am on the internet pretty much from the time I get home from school to the time I go to bed.... I take a few breaks occasionally

- I am on ChiefDelphi for hours everyday... and I just learned about it 3 weeks ago

- I have a record player and 8 records(i need more!).... I'm 15 and obsessed with oldies

- I could listen to most Motown songs and tell you what group sang it

- I know what Motown is... and it's my favorite type of music

- I only listen to oldies stations

- I have 100's of MP3's with almost all of them being oldies

- I just posted 5 ways on how I am a geek because I'm obsessed with oldies... wait now 6

- I unintentionally correct spelling and grammar

- I use spell check to make sure that I spell words correctly when I post messages

- I go to bed at 11 or later and get up at 4 every weekday.... of course I get up at 10 or 11 on weekends

- I confuse myself easily

- I don't totally find these things geeky but I know I'm a geek

- I'm confused by that last statement I made ^

- I made a complete list of all the words from The Word Association thread

[David Kelly]

i have 10 FIRST signs hanging in my room

i got dean kamen's autograph 3 times

i got woodie's autograph once

i have got Dave Lavery's autograph at the Buckeye regional last year.

i have the most posts on Chief Delphi.

i maxed out my AOL buddy list

i TP the houses of kids on other FIRST teams

i almost wet myself when we got our new mill

i dream about robotics meetings

my friends call me a geek

i watch people sign on and off in my buddy list instead of doing homework

i got an A+ on my midterm portfolio for my composition class. this paper was the longest i had ever written and it was about us winning the 2001 motorola midwest regional.

i wear a TechnoKats polo shirt to work and i think it's cool

i am trying to plan how im going to steel, err borrow, the Highway 234 sign in Indiana.

my passwords are numbers of other FIRST teams

my best friends are on a team

i visit former students on other FIRST teams

when i visit family in kokomo i always wear my technokats shirt with the hopes of someone on the team seeing me.

my team asks me first about any rumors or good stuff happening on chiefdelphi



that's about it for now...

[MattK]

Forgot, I have a column in my local newspaper about computers. Durrrrrrrr

[Joe Ross]

My sister just gave me directions in ASCII art over AIM

I use AIM whether the person is across the country, or within socking distance.

[Joe Matt]

-I had sensory overload at the Nats, and liked it.

-I like dancing bannanas.

-I act like Stitch

-I have 820 posts on CD

-Nintendo is god (IMHO)

-I listen to kids and wonder how they can live without being on the internet 24/7 nor not caring about the new P4 chipset.

-If a wood chuck could chuck wood, he would do it with an Innovations FIRST reciever.

-I wonder if a Segway can do through an inversion...

-I want to be in the hotseat, again

[Andy Baker]

I know why a curve ball actually curves

I saw every Brady Bunch episode at least 3 times

The crap that the professor could make out of a coconut on Gilligan's Island didn't fool me.

I can name the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd receivers for each NFL team (Fantasy Football geek).

While I know the torque-speed curves for all of the FIRST motors, I also have been known to forget to bring my wallet to Florida.

I am sometimes disappointed when 5:00 rolls around and I gotta stop running my CAD station.

My wife and kids have gone away for a Saturday and I go into work and design FIRST robots.

During the FIRST season, I cannot sleep at night until we get our team's design done.

While playing Sim City on my home computer, I often grasp in air... trying to locate my Spaceball... then I realize that I only use my Spaceball while on CAD at work.

I refuse to pay anyone to work on anything at my house. Even if I have no experience with some piece of equipment, I can usually fix it.... it may take me a while, but it will get fixed.

I calculated the best way to mow my 3+1/2-acre yard... I start in a circle in the middle of my yard and I can drive continually without slowing down for 45 minutes.

The fact that I have been posting in these forums since they opened before the 1999 season. Go ahead... check the archives... I know you're jealous.

My list of FIRST contacts is almost to 1,000 people.

Other TechnoKats often make fun of me for how geeky I am with FIRST team numbers, the teams, and what their robots can do.

I many not know how to configure my BIOS on my computer, but I am still a geek.

Andy B.

[SlamminSammy]

Although most of mine have been said, I'd like to add 2 more to the list.

1. I learned some Linear B and Egyptian hieroglyphs: not only the symbols, but the languages behind them too (Ancient Greek and Ancient Coptic respectively).

2. While my online banking uses 1024 bit RSA encryption, I use 3072 bit DH/DSS encryption. I have encrypted "hello" below in my public key (If anybody can derive my private key from that I'll give them a nickel ).

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[Tom Schindler]

... because i was one of the first 5 users on CD
... because i can go for 2+ weeks straight wearing ONLY FIRST shirts
...because everyone on my floor comes to me for tools
...because ive been involved in FIRST for 7 out of the 12 years
...because my computer is currently lacking it's side-panels due to overheating
...because i refuse to buy things from stores instead of online unless i absolutely have to
...because i have a pin that says, "100% dork, not from concentrate" on it
...i go to WPI... nuff said

[evulish]

I wonder how many shirts I would have if I counted all the ones I have lost. I buy shirts and they're gone 20 minutes later...now I buy shirts right before we get on the bus to go home

[MacZealot]

Wow.... bad shirt loosing problem!

So yeah, I loveshopping online

[Joe Matt]

Originally posted by MacZealot
Wow.... bad shirt loosing problem!

So yeah, I loveshopping online

I actually like fresh air so I like to shop ouside, ya know, AT A STORE!

[Melissa Nute]

...I like using my computer mouse without its ball just because I can control it better