inner nerd
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tortuga_veloce at 03.13.09 - 12:40 pm
More importantly than any nerd costumes, it is important for us to acknowlege our inner nerds. We all have one, it's that tendancy to do something incredibly creative and idiosyncratic, which is also deeply uncool. Anyone care to share?
I'll start. I'm RIGHT NOW wearing shoes with thin strips of old inner tubes as laces. they're flexy and supportive, but not too tight, and incredibly comfortable. also, they don't shred like cloth laces and theyre a reused resource.
I get excited every time I look at my shoes and that's what makes me a...
NERD!!!
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at work I carry about 4 or 5 pens in my pocket. I really only need one but you never know. oh, and technology rules!!!!
sancho103.13.09 - 12:54 pm
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one time i had sex with a pumpkin
Purp03.13.09 - 1:40 pm
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THANK YOU!
YES
Find that inner nerd.
If I had a tan photo vest I would be rocking one of those.
Because, I'll bet you a nikkormat i'm a bigger photonerd than you.
trickmilla03.13.09 - 1:43 pm
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As I was preparing my nerd costume, I strongly considered bringing my complete anthology of Shakespeare's works. And then I realized I couldn't risk having my baby get hurt like that, so you guys are just stuck with the Shakespeare I've memorized. All 200 lines.
danya03.13.09 - 4:35 pm
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I've been thinking about linux all day
godmode03.13.09 - 4:40 pm
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Steve Wozniak came and spoke to our high school when I was a freshman, because he was an alum. He got us to all pledge allegiance to The Woz.
BellBeefer03.13.09 - 4:46 pm
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I'm more of a geek. But.....I've stayed up the last 4 night reading about my favorite videogames. About the hidden story lines and the missed connections. Youtubing the soundtracks. And drawing little sketches of characters.
Tarmonster.03.13.09 - 4:53 pm
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i know all the lines to Star Wars. i can play Star Wars trivial pursuit and win. i didn't like the first three movies, but i'll admit, i enjoy watching all 6 one right after the other on a lazy afternoon. my favorite character is Obi Won Kenobi. and secretly, i have outlined 7, 8 and 9 and i don't care that everyone else has too because i am pretty much proud my nerdologyness in that i love Yoda - and wouldn't mind hnaging out with him for long periods at a time where i can just pick his brain.
and my favorite part of all 6 movies is in Empire:
Yoda: That boy is our last hope
Obi Won Kenobi: There is another.
bondink03.13.09 - 5:00 pm
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Man, Brad looks like my old "wood shop" teacher... Or Teen Wolfs dad!
Rogue Rida03.13.09 - 5:03 pm
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""If I had a tan photo vest I would be rocking one of those. ""
Candy Cane03.13.09 - 5:05 pm
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hey bondink you cant possibly know more about star wars than me... including the fac that you MISS SPELLED Obi WAN Kenobi's name!
better brush up cause I got your targeted like a womp rat in beggar's canyon!
Roadblock03.13.09 - 5:07 pm
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Funanu looks really hot. In that pic. And by hot I men that in the most "friend" mannerisms. But srsly.
I love yoda. I'm wearing a star wars watch right now. The far back right side of my hair is shoeter that any other part. (Behind the ear) Because I made myself a padawon braid and I never took it off all of my junior year in HS and it became a dread and I had to chop it in half for it to become undone.
Tarmonster.03.13.09 - 5:08 pm
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Everything I wore for the nerds photoshoot (and will wear tonight) are real. The math club shirt (We would've had PI today in honor of tomorrow if it was still around), the shoes, everything. Hah.
imachynna03.13.09 - 5:09 pm
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**** the first 3 episodes of star wars are not officially recognized by me***** only the real Star Wars episodes are real thats STAR WARS THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and REVENGE OF THE JEDI
Roadblock03.13.09 - 5:09 pm
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"only the real Star Wars episodes are real thats STAR WARS THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and REVENGE OF THE JEDI"
+a million. that other shit is whack.
danya03.13.09 - 5:12 pm
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i admit, i type too fast to spell properly.
Roadblock: i'll go head to head on the facts. i'm down. it's too fun. too fun - yea!
bondink03.13.09 - 5:13 pm
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true nerds admit, they watch the first three because even though they are bad - there are tiny moments of the universe we can't refuse to love.
i admit it. i hate Anakin. but after 3 when i begin A New Hope and Darth comes through the door - i get the chills. and that alone, i confess, is awesome!
bondink03.13.09 - 5:14 pm
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nerdy for LOST, LOTR, BSG, Dune (only the first three books), Ender's Game, Harry Potter....
huge NERD for mythologies.
bondink03.13.09 - 5:21 pm
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my first born will be called TK421
sancho103.13.09 - 7:08 pm
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i have a hidden talent for video games
good old times of cs and dod clanz
i love civ 4
i love reading about anthropology, economics, international relations.
in elementary school i got an award for creating a creative bookmark, my reward was one free book from the book fair, i got a book on ufos
when I found 200 dollars i spent it on books that you buy in elementary school from those catalogs
i listen to NPR daily.
i am a dork.
dorks are > nerd. sorry.
aksendz03.13.09 - 7:16 pm
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I play D&D, read copious amounts of fantasy novels, can list all metallic and chromatic dragons(and their breath weapons).
I Love trilogy Tuesdays (any trilogy of nerd-dom)
I have logged thousands and thousands of hours on video games
I am learning how to program
I Love fantasy metal
I have several medieval weapons
Lord of the rings poster in my room
Comic book collection
I almost ran into Nathan Fillion on my mtb and almost shat my pants (Our Beloved Captain Reynolds)
I have a huge cloak with flames on the inside that I wear in public, fuck the inner nerd it's all about the outer nerd!
petzljake03.13.09 - 7:25 pm
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But where are the clones? Send in the clones!
frumble03.13.09 - 7:30 pm
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Bid deal. Today I read
this, and not because I had to.
I don't think that I need to dress up for tonight.
laoxue03.13.09 - 7:32 pm
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Err, uh, that should have been "Big deal".
I'm such a geek I can't even taunt right.
laoxue03.13.09 - 7:34 pm
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My girlfriend pledged allegiance to The Woz.
I hate Jack and Kate.
frumble03.13.09 - 7:36 pm
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I am now watching episodes of pure pwnage.
aksendz03.13.09 - 7:38 pm
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Right now I'm listening to my neighbors wireless networks...GO LINUX!
godmode03.13.09 - 7:39 pm
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I am always carrying a book. But what I think does it for me is I can't stand to see a misspelled word and have OCD so bad that I tend to hurt feelings... all for the sake of getting the word spelled correctly.
I'm working on tact.
Jazzy Phat Nastee03.13.09 - 7:54 pm
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Oh, and I watch mall rats for the part where Brody gets to talk to the Man himself.... Stan Lee!!
Jazzy Phat Nastee03.13.09 - 7:58 pm
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I don't know if this counts?
But if it does I got you all beat.
I like elevator music. I really really really like it.
On the way back from Salton Sea I found this great station in Catherdal City 98.5KWXY. Bummed that they don't have it on the internet.
The commercial where targeted for people 60 years old and up.
sexy03.13.09 - 9:13 pm
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^^^
That counts. Especially if you seek out elevator music. Sounds like you do.
The Muzak company is pretty interesting. They're still around, still making music, but they changed the name of the company, since it has a negative connotation now. They also compose new songs, not just make ... you know. Muzak versions of pop classics.
Here's a nerd moment for you: I'm missing the Midnight Ridazz Revenge of the Nerds Ride because I want to be nice & fresh for tomorrow morning's architecture ride. It's not a sleep thing — I can work on just a few hours if I need to. I just don't want to be out of it and yawny while inside the architectural works of some of the great modernist masters.
Other nerdy things: I write with a Micron pen. Like, all the time, not just when drawing (I don't have the need to draft anymore). I own about seven safety rulers (for cutting paper and chipboard and foam core) of varying sizes. Before I lost my pencil case, I used to carry two miniature scales in it: An architect's scale (imperial) and an engineer's scale (metric). The top of my work desk is fitted with a portable drafting table, which I leave on there.
"I'm RIGHT NOW wearing shoes with thin strips of old inner tubes as laces."
I BROKE A LACE THIS WEEK. THAT IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA. Thanks!
katiepoche03.13.09 - 9:57 pm
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Y'all have a fun night now.
I've got two months of back-pay to catch up on before I could make my next moves.
bentstrider03.13.09 - 10:01 pm
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I would guess im a nerd.
Im update on most video games owning most consoles and such.
I also know most of the history of video game companies and franchises. In my spare time I work on my computer which is running 8.04 Ubuntu(linux). I also like to play risk every once and a while and im an avid street fighter fan.
NERD.
killercouchattack03.13.09 - 10:50 pm
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Nerd in the sci-fi aficionado-sense, but I was never able to get much homework done either.
bentstrider03.14.09 - 12:47 am
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fuck u onelesspixie u aint the coolest of nothing. ya but anyways i am the biggest shortwave radio & scanner nerd in this whole sorry ass lil scene. when i was a kid i wanted a shortwave communications receiver but i was a lil pobrecito 4 real & my parents couldnt afford that shit but they were able to buy me a shortwave broadcast receiver. wats the difference u say, well ima tell you dumass, the difference is a communications receiver has a beat frequency oscillator so u can listen to single sideband voice comms and cw (morse code).
well i loved my lil radio but it didnt have that shit so i figured out how to ghetto rig a beat frequency oscillator using the parasitic emissions from a regular lil am transistor radio. its simple u just tune in ur ssb frequency then u put the am radio right next 2 the shortwave receiver and turn it on, then u slowly tune across the am broadcast band until u hear a swish in the shortwave receiver. then u fine tune it until the voice becomes intelligible. u have artificially reintroduced the carrier wave which is exactly what a bfo does. so now i was able 2 listen to long range aeronautical communications & ship 2 shore & of course ham radio. ya the beat frequency drifts a lil but u can just keep fine tuning that shit. ... ..- -.-. -.- -- -.-- -.. .. -.-. -.- thats suck my dick in morse code & u dam right i dont need no online translator 4 that shit
PC03.14.09 - 5:02 am
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i play risk and other dice rolling board games
Drooby42003.14.09 - 1:02 pm
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ok, so i think it's clear what we're doing for the next nerd ride:
STAR WARS!!!
tortuga_veloce03.14.09 - 5:27 pm
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I play D&D, and I love Star Wars, and anyone that says the Prequels were whack, well, you're WHACK, that shit is bomb! Not as bomb as the HOLY TRILOGY, but bomb in the context of the mythology that IS Star Wars - which is beyond the movies and beyond the toys, dog. All you haters don't know what you're talking about, and you probably were fans of BUFFY.
Plus being a D&D & Star Wars geek has NOTHING to do with being a NERD, nerd.
the reverend dak03.14.09 - 5:41 pm
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Star Wars ride has been done, it was the Jedi Mind Trick.
No more sequels.
Prequels, maybe.
the reverend dak03.14.09 - 5:47 pm
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i love all of the star wars films.
funanu03.14.09 - 8:04 pm
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magic the gathering during science fiction club.
proud member of the vista high school regimental marching band.
math club, science club, and academic decathalon.
my favorite video game was "hero's quest/ quest" for glory by sierra.
i also used to paint little plastic ogre, goblin, orc and elf figurines for fun.
the movies "revenge of the nerds" and "wierd science" gave me hope.
sciencefriction03.14.09 - 9:03 pm
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