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Unread 01-02-2007, 22:29
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Re: I am a geek because...

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i'm a NERD because i refer to the FIRST Manual as the Bible,
I'm a NERD because the gift i got most excited about this christmas was my jumpdrive, and because i'm on a robotics team, need i say more???!!! I have a counter on my myspace until the next kickoff...
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yeah..i'm a nerd...not a geek!!!!!!!
Maybe us nerds need our own thread. But I'm too much of a nerd to actually take the risk to start something like that. I'll read up on it for a while first.
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Re: I am a geek because...

-i spend most of my free time on chief delphi....(like now for example)
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Re: I am a geek because...

I am a super geek because I got a UNIX BASH terminal and built an entire Linux installation from source (although I used Gentoo Linux's portage system). It took me about 3 days to build everything from source, configure it and make it suit me. Oh, and I stole the SUSE menu for my custom build too. I have my computer check mail for me, and in a few weeks I might try to get it to read it back to me too. Yes, I'm really that lazy that I need my computer to read my mail for me.

I also am coding a game from scratch for my senior project, although I lose points for using the rediculously easy Python language with pygame.

(psst... what's the difference between a geek and a nerd?)
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Re: I am a geek because...

-I joined First with prior programming knowledge
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(psst... what's the difference between a geek and a nerd?)
Straight out of Lavery's mouth...
"and, to be clear, the genus "geek" is not to be confused with the genus "dweeb" "Geeks" (and their associated species and subspecies, including "hardware geeks," "software geeks," and "nerds") are taxonomically different from the genus "dweeb" (and dependent species "dweebus" and "dorks")." -Lavery
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Re: I am a geek because...

I always tell my friends im a geek and not a nerd. They ask why, i said because nerds are the ones who play D&D. ( No offence ) Ill proudly be a geek.
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Re: I am a geek because...

I'm a nerd/geek because I can combine the words Ninja and Nerd into 300 different combinations...Nerja...Nind...ect.
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I always tell my friends im a geek and not a nerd. They ask why, i said because nerds are the ones who play D&D. ( No offence ) Ill proudly be a geek.
I actually have known it the other way; "geek" seems to have a negative connotation, whereas "nerd" has a cool factor to it. My OCCRA team has dubbed me "Turbo-nerd"--hey, that reminds me of "Turbo-tax"...awww, my nickname just lost its shine...

I would tend to say "geeks" are the ones who play D&D...and I play StepMania on the keyboard, does that count for anything?

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What's strange about that? lol....
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What's strange about that? lol....
I just sort of assumed that that was enough to be considered a geek, guess I was wrong
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I just sort of assumed that that was enough to be considered a geek, guess I was wrong
No, it was actually meant as a joke towards myself; I don't think that it's strange to come into FIRST with programming experience, only because I did. Many, many teams are programmer-less because there isn't enough experience out there. Yay for being a nerd!

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Re: I am a geek because...

Because I just got a call from a random person (who happens to have his own law practice, and his own web site) asking for advice on setting up multiple monitors, because they saw my posts on that subject on some forum.
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Re: I am a geek because...

...I spend my saturday watching live feed from various regionals ^.^

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Re: I am a geek because...

* I am able to successfully support the reliability of Wikipedia.
* I am hardly able to contain my excitement at the sound of the words, "Critical Lens Essay"
* I count down the days to the Finger Lakes Regional, starting from the day after the previous regional.
* I have "FIRST-website-update" withdrawals.
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Re: I am a geek because...

ima geek cus

-i kno alot bout the history of the internet
-i speek 1337 every day (u a geek 2 if u kno wat dat means)
-i do this XD, =), lol, rofl, ^_^, @_@, =P, XP at the end of every post
-i hack my comp to put in my own music into my video games rather than turn on my mp3. player
-i wana mod every thing that i own (think USB toaster for my xbox360)
-I BAKE HOT POCKETS!!!
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