You might be a nerd if...

[Dark Jaguar]

Thread revival.

You know that "suspenders" actually hold up one's socks, and the things for your trousers are properly called "braces" and you can't make anyone else care.

You know what an Altair is

You built one

It worked

You doodle "I :love: Bill Nye the Science Guy" all over the margins of your chem textbook

You can accurately name the constituents of Tom Servo's underwear collection

You passed up on watching the Friends finale because the MythBusters were exploding a cement mixer during the same time slot

You have a red bumper sticker that says, "If this is blue, you're going too fast!"

You can recite the first launch dates of the entire shuttle fleet, but can't remember your mom's birthday

You get excited about meeting Penn and Teller not because you want to ask them to show you a magic trick but because you want to ask them to research and debunk a new pseudoscientific claim

You get a greater rush out of genetically engineering bacteria than from riding a roller coaster

You read nonfiction books for entertainment, and regularly read ahead in school textbooks

...Starting from the second grade

You get panicky if you are only 5 book assignments ahead of the teacher

You have six computers in one room

Three of them are currently running

All of them are caseless

One of your major concerns is finding places where you can put all those danged books, but still be able to find the stupid things again when you want to

You consider Dexter's Laboratory to be humanity's single greatest achievement in the comedic arts

You have the first 100 digits of pi memorized...just for accuracy's sake

You went ahead and put pi to a tune for a music video

You memorized it to 101 places only to 1-up the other geeks

You realize that that is prime

Your monitor has a resolution of 8000 x 6000

As such, you have NEVER seen a scroll bar

You have 5 DVD players in your room, none of which is intended as solely a DVD player

You can say the same about CD players

You rigged your Victrola player to your PC just to get the highest quality WAVs you could from the original cylinders (my father didn't go THAT far, but he did actually hook up everything from his CD player to his record player to his PC to record all his media as MP3s)

About the worst thing you can imagine happening when buying a new display is finding a dead pixel

You think of Altair only as a star in the sky

As such, when someone mentions they made one themselves, you want to know how they made a star

So you can do it yourself

You've learned to keep most of your jokes to yourself around most people as you just get blank stares

You've learned to keep silent pretty much all the time around new people because most of what you say just gets blank stares

People go to you to settle science related arguments

Half the calls you get from family and friends are in regards to computer repair, namely, you repairing their computer next time you come over

You instinctively grab your PC repair kit any time you go to someone's house

You realize that "instinct" isn't technically the right word

When you see "........" you want to correct it by pointing out ellipsis are always 3 periods with spaces between each one ". . ."

You actually knew those were called ellipsis

You describe hobbies and people are shocked that's not your job

You describe hobbies and people are shocked that somewhere there ARE jobs related to it

You hang out at astronomy message boards

Somehow, regular people just don't "do it" for you any more

If someone asks you if you know any additional languages, you list off C++, Perl, Java, etc. . .

You don't see how the above is funny until someone explains that normal people ask about languages as in spoken languages

You still don't get it because you speak those languages out loud anyway

You understand and think "There's no place like 127.0.0.1, there's no place like 127.0.0.1" is funny

You constantly take online "nerdiness tests" to rate yourself

You get upset if you get a low score

You analyze the tests to see which questions are more significant

You analyze the tests and conclude they are not scientifically valid

You have never met your friends in the "real world"

You feel the need to put the phrase "real world" in quotes

Your most treasured presents from childhood are a telescope, a microscope, and a "for kids" training circuit board from Radio Shack

You rigged the training circuit board to act as an intruder detection system