30th November 2005, 8:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 30th November 2005, 5:05 PM by 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
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
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)