Are you guys nerds?

[Zej]

How many of you people are real nerds? Seriosuly. All you do is sit on the computer and program. You don't listen to music, you don't have a girlfriend or you don't listento any music, and you're like the guy who always gets picked on buy the cooler guys.

[ravcam]

Me? Nerd? No way, although I do most of those other things to me, a computer is a wonderful thing, it never does anything you don't tell it to do!

[joey o.]

I've got a wife and 3 kids and haven't been beet up in over 25 yrs (that one was a lucky punch). Balance is the most important thing in life. Programming fills a need for me just as does music, sports, and socialization with others and I try not to loose this balance. When I find some cool code or see an awsomely complex program I sincerely hope that the writer has not matyred his or her life away to produce it. I have been caught on 3 day programming "binges" before but I've also taken 3 day weekends with the family without working at all. Success is defined as how well you individually contribute or manage a team in my opinion. after all we're all in this together and a machine can't love you back (at least not yet).Thanks to this new forum for allowing me to babble!

[compuGEEK]

I'm not a nerd...I'm a sleek geek

I've got a wife and 3 kids and haven't been beet up in over 25 yrs (that one was a lucky punch). Balance is the most important thing in life. Programming fills a need for me just as does music, sports, and socialization with others and I try not to loose this balance. When I find some cool code or see an awsomely complex program I sincerely hope that the writer has not matyred his or her life away to produce it. I have been caught on 3 day programming "binges" before but I've also taken 3 day weekends with the family without working at all. Success is defined as how well you individually contribute or manage a team in my opinion. after all we're all in this together and a machine can't love you back (at least not yet).Thanks to this new forum for allowing me to babble!

Very well put, and structred nicely too!

[Fox]

I'd say I'm a geek

[kedaman]

Nerd, I am. Am I the only Nerd here? (by the way whats the definition of Nerd) I would apprecieate if anyone coud tell me what i've announced me as.

Nah, I'm not nerd. I work out at the gym a lot and I listen to a lot of music. Mostly dance and hip hop. If you saw me, and hung around me, you'd think I know nothing about computers.

[Dr_Evil]

Why do some people insist on labeling us as geeks? Is it because we know how to use a computer for things other that downloading porn & mp3s? These people kill me. I'm a 22 year old programmer who also plays in a Pittsburgh area band. Love to snowboard, play basketball & just about anything to do with the outdoors. I didn't choose to major in Computer Science because I'm a geek. It's because of the high demand great pay.

I guess that's what society has come to think of programmers. They think of us as ugly people who have think black glasses, a load of gel in our hair, our pants up to our chest and a couple of pens and an organizer in our front pocket of our blue and white striped shirt.

After reading all of these resopnses, everyone here seems normal and non-geekish to me.

[HarryW]

Don't forget teh pocket protectors

I dunno, I guess I'm kinda geeky/nerdy, but my girlfriend would probably disagree hehe. I just want a job that I enjoy, and that's programming. I've always been interested in it, never really been any doubt what I wanted to do. Does that make me a geek? If so then it doesn't bother me really. I'm happy and that's what counts.

[QWERTY]

I'm definitely non-nerd type of guy hehe

[Sam Finch]

I'm a sucessfull stand up commedian I was in the football and rugby teams at school and my best freinds just signed a £100,000 Record deal I still hold the school Ale drinking record and I'm just Damn cool from but deep down I'm a complete and utter Geek.

(The information above is true yet exadurated)
(I can't spell for ****)

[YoungBuck]

Iz not a geek, just a high tech redneck

[kedaman]

What's nerd? seriously I wan't some definitions here

[Iain17]

From http://www.dictionary.com

computer geek

(Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage.

I think that sums it up quite well.

It's strange that they actually have that word in a dictionary. Lots of slangs made their way into a dictionary over the years.

I remember that there was a dictionary with the word f***
in it. I'm serious.

[Sam Finch]

the word F*** has been in the English language for at least 3000 years, much much longer than the word dictionary.

But they didn't have dictionaries back 3000 years!!

[Sam Finch]

and that, megatron, Is why they had no word for dictionary.

[Zaphod64831]

I am 100% pure nerd. I spend nearly all my time in front of my computer and hardly ever do anything else, although I do listen to music it is on my computer. Pretty much the only reason I do get up is to pee or go to work, and even then I'm on the computer all the time at work. And, if you're wondering, I do eat sitting at my computer.

Sam Finch: You don't believe me?? I'm dead serious.

[Sam Finch]

Do you mean about not having dictionaries 3000 years ago, Of course they did, they carved them in stone and they weighed 400 pounds and everyone went round in cars with holes in the bottom for your feet instead of an engine.

Ha ha ha! Kind of like the Flintstones?

[Bob Baddeley]

Is Zaphod a reference to the mecca of all literature? I am refering, of course, to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In it is a character named Zaphod Beeblebrox, who is a man with two heads and an interesting person.

[lychew]

hey...

You guys are weird... not nerds.
Only weirdo will ask others whether they are nerds or not. Guess real nerds don't even come to forums huh??
You guys are too lively to be nerds.
As for me, judge yourselves.

[Fox]

That's why I'm a geek indeed

[kedaman]

I guess I don't want do define me neither as nerd nor geek, after all. I'm just a 24h/day programmer that eats radiation and will die if I take of my VR glasses.

Can't be this wrong this world. How can you spend so much time in front of your computer, geeks, nerds or whatever?

Dentarthurdent

[Iain17]

Out of the three i would define myself in the third category. Despite the fact that i am doing a software engineering degree and i work 9 hours a day programming.

People who meet me can never beleive that i know anything about computers, but then people always expect the typical sterotype.

Not that i am saying there aren't those that follow the nerd sterotype. A lot of the people on my course fit what is commonly known as the computer geek sterotype. All they talk about 24/7 is computers. I remember hearing one heated discussion over which graphics card was the best. I didn't hang around for the answer as i had more important matters to attend to, ie getting a pint before the next lecture.

At the end of the day we are what we define ourselves as. If you have been labeled a computer geek, there is a good chance that this is because you are fitting rather to well into that mould. At least in the eyes of the world. Sitting in front of a computer 24/7 can never be good.

[da_silvy]

i only program when i am boreddddd........................................................................................... .......................


or when there is nothing else tto doo, like right nowww..........

oh well, it's 10PM where i am, i'm thinking about bed...
i have school tomorrow

[Sam Finch]

Geek / Nerd / Pisshead

I was firmly into number 3 territory before I got Ill, apparently if you define 12 pints as a quiet night out and you think eating is a complete and total waste of beer money and sleeping is a waste of good drinking time, you become suceptible to nasty diseases transmitted by those women who look far more attractive at the time than they actually are.

So now I've go ME and it turns out the only cure is to be a geek for a couple of years.
I think I'm doing rather well.

[Cbomb]

I find it very hard to categorize myself into geek or nerd or whatever else. I've always broken all the (so called) "rules." You know what I mean like geeks and populars can't hang out together, think again. I love messing with the system . But it does make it hard to classify myself. Oh well

If you have a job working on a computer. That doesn't make you a nerd. You do it for a living and you make great money for it. If you are still a school kid and stay on the computer all day and absolutley not do ANYTHING else, then maybe, we have a problem.

[Sam Finch]

Whayt's wrong with being a nerd, does the word nerd make you a turd(which the French call Merde) and mean you can't get a bird, that's obsurd. Erm, Douglas Herd likes Lemon Curd, he ran a race and came in third, oh sod it.

[Ianpbaker]

In my perfect World my computer would be my wife. Oh the joy, oh the fun. I would be with her all day and night listining to her sweet words, telling her that no this monitor does'nt make her modem look big. choosing the right monimal for her.
Every time she got a bit angry and blue in the screen, I would push a button, wait a minute and everything would be Ok again. Life would be so perfect...........

Oops sorry the class A drugs are having a rather bad effect on me but It really does piss me off that us programmers get classed as these Nerds. Ok a few people do fall into this category but most if us are just normal down to earth guys and girls who enjoy what they do but also have a social life. I think we should start a movement to exterminate these nerds and free the rest of us to be completly accepted into civilisation.

FREEDOM TO THE PROGRAMMERS

Ian

ps. In my above quote I said about a monimal. For those who are not from the UK, a monimal was a fury cover that you could put over you monitor and make it look like a cow. It also came with a screen saver that made the face and started moo-ing. I Found a friend with one and had to put him down because there was nothing we could do for him.

[Eddy]

Nerd : To Be or Not To Be? is the question.
Heck, what am I then ......?!!
Any suggestions? Anyone...?

I would have to classify myself somewhere in the middle, between a nerd(or geek or what was it.... Ah yes, Pisshead) and a normal peson. I don't hang out with the nerd croud (oh wait, that's crowd huh? I can't spell either) , though some of my friends are into computers. I listen to lots of music, mostly hardcore (even if they are Mp3s!) and love to SnowBoard. As a matter of fact I am currently typing wearing a pair of black leather fingerless gloves. While this may sound strange, the reason is that I was just out riding my Motorcycle (this is where the nerd part fits in) and am planing on going back out. (here is the nerd part... YaY!) But of course, I got paged, as I went inside and called, I of course went on my computer, at that point I came here and started reading posts. Now it all comes together.... I am 15 years old and will be starting college in the fall of this upcoming year. I will hopefully be going to a community college which has a 2 year transfer admission guarantee program to UCSD (which has a great computer science department). So, you can see, I fit in somewhere in the middle, I guess you could say I'm a mutt, a cross between the computer world, and the real world. Sorry to bore you all with a long post, I'm going to go back out and Ride Baby!!!!!!!!

To be honest, a nerd is really one of those people on TV with the thick glasses and pocket protector etc. I don't think that there are real nerd around!

[delker]

Actually, the word 'nerd' probably originated from a Dr. Seuss children's book. Check this out for a picture of Seuss's nerd (and formal definition):
http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/NerdCorner/AHED-nerd.html

To be honest, a nerd is really one of those people on TV with the thick glasses and pocket protector etc. I don't think that there are real nerd around!

crap!!!!!
I was hoping thick black glasses wouldnt make you look like a nerd (pulls glasses off and puts them away)
ahh now I ma not a nedr, but I acnt see attt all...

If you are still a school kid and stay on the computer all day and absolutley not do ANYTHING else, then maybe, we have a problem.

damn..... thats me
I am on the computer at least 12 hours a day,
when school starts it wont be as much though.