The Ultimate Nerd Characteristics

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You know, the thing, more than anything else, that would identify someone as being a gigantic nerd. I'd say buying video game soundtracks. Like special orchestral versions of the songs you hear in Dead or Alive Ultimate, that kind of thing.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

Making number "base" jokes, like "omg your girlfriend is 26? If we used base 14, she'd only be..."

I guess that cover binary as well.

I'm not too good at this.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

Or, um, creating a skin for winamp as a tribute to a j-pop superstar.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

memorizing pi

― fra lippo liposuction (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Learning fluent Klingon.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Owning every single dvd of Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, LOTR...

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

i misread this as ned characteristics. but maybe it doesn't matter?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Ooooh! *handbag*

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

Downloading the new series of Lexx

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

make decisions in life with a 12 sided die.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Programming your own things to do in games like Half- Life.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'm not a nerd then, because I have no idea what Eric's second and third post mean.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Making number "base" jokes, like "omg your girlfriend is 26? If we used base 14, she'd only be..."

I have done this. With people who had no idea what I was talking about.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Being this guy.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

Haha I knew that was the Tron guy without even looking at the link!

god Im a nerd haha.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Spending all day on internet message boards.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

pwned.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/DSC00361.jpg

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

What.. an aphex tshirt is nerdy? ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

No wait I get it - its the multiple CLOCKS, ISNT IT.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

heh, the clocks would be my dad's nerdiness!

i just always thought i looked rather nerdy in that pic, like the stereotype of a IDM/Aphex lovin' geek.

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

plus the big ol zit and wet hair (i had just gotten dressed) which looks like it could be greasy unwashed hair.

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Well then paint me pink and call me nerdy too! ;D Yer a cutie ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

I remember being at a party where a roomful of people (approx 30) were watching two guys snap on each other with escalating levels of brutal mama jokes. Finally, one guy fumbled, and the other guy said, "Ooh, that was lame; in fact, that was asymptotically approaching lame." The whole room fell out, then froze, because EVERYONE GOT THE JOKE.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

you look like you're about to bloom.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm not a nerd, Bart, nerds are smart.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

make decisions in life with a 12 sided die.

only barbarians use a 12-sided die!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

OUTED

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Must be time to give this an airing again:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/images/linux_nylug_booth.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Is that a beardy guy with a propeller beanie in the background? Wow.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Not only video game soundtracks, but symphonic concert programs of Final Fantasy music entitled "Dear Friends" where images of the game are projected behind the musicians and people attend in costume. (NB I know two people who drove 3 hours to go to this.)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I know!!!!1! Was he warned beforehand that there'd be lots of nerds tbere so he'd better dress to suit the occasion? xpost

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

:( I have the "Nintendo Big Bands" performance of music from Zelda and Mario and such. But I already knew I'm a nerd...

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

And that's proof that nerds don't have to be clever: Mixed my tenses there.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

*searches for rusty nails to fall on*

i misread this as ned characteristics. but maybe it doesn't matter?

Not if you're going to invoke freakin' Babylon 5 and Lexx FFS. I have however read pi if not memorized it. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

nerds arent necessarily clever, quick, or smart, they're just nerds.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Anyone else read Dan's post as watching two guys soap on each other?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

OUTED

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

our waiter last week had a blue screen of death t-shirt. that was a little nerdy.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

i ordered a helen love t-shirt yesterday. does that count?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Jesus. I have a Karate Kid t-shirt. This thread is making me realise I'm more of a geek than I thought (hoped) I was.

― Craig Gilchrist (Craig Gilchrist), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

who's eric?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I am a computer programmer. I talk about queueing fairness properties of train routing networks in computer games.

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

usenet

― dan m (OutDatWay), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

When I was scrolling down and saw "Must be time to give this an airing again" I was instantly expecting, without wishing to name any names, an ILXer leaning on a giant 20-sided (was it?) die.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

-- jocelyn (nalra...), April 29th, 2005.

my friend sean was talking about this. he was seriously planning on going too. hes going to see autechre with me instead though.

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

and THANK GOD

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/monot.jc/images/asimov5.jpg

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I should have posted one with a bolo tie.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I went to high school with a guy who wore a tie-dyed shirt with a picture of a wolf or dolphin or something on the front (you know the kind) and "I Suffer from CRS: Can't Remember Shit" silk screened on the back. Every day. Why would anyone make that?

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Other classic nerd shirts from HS were:

Picture of the galaxy with "You are here"

Table of Elements

Washington, DC Insect Zoo (that always seemed like the most tasteful and understated nerd shirt)

"The Real Heavy Metal", followed by pictures of plutonium, uranium, etc.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Washington, DC Insect Zoo

WHERE CAN I GET THIS

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

At the Insect Zoo, duh.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Anything with the NextStep logo was also in great demand.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

YES! Or older *BSD shirts!

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday someone said this about a guy I know who is writing a thesis on Greek drama: "His handwriting is illegible! When he wrote me a note, I couldn't make it out, and it was unsigned! I only knew it was from him because he wrote alphas for his a's." That's awesome.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

"No wait I get it - its the multiple CLOCKS, ISNT IT. "

Wrong! It's the plastic cover still on the lamp! No body cares about the clocks or the zit. And wots up with the Tronguy? That just scares me!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Picture of the galaxy with "You are here"

OMG I totally had this one and I forgot about it until now!!! I was like 12!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

seems the best place for this link: http://www.optimist.org/default.cfm?content=Vistors/vis1.htm. The photo is particularly frightening, but the whole website is entertaining.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

oh there's this big fat greasy haired kid in the class i TA for, he wrote a paper on the titanic. they were supposed to speculate on TEH FUTURE of media technology, and someone said [something] that had "never been thought of before" and he piped up, first thing he's said all term, "not on star trek". after abt 10 secs of dead silence the whole room fell out lethally. it was like a john huges movie, it was absolutely cinematically timed. i felt so bad, even tho i can't stand him.

he's a nerd.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

What.. an aphex tshirt is nerdy? ;P
-- Trayce (spamspanke...), April 29th, 2005. (later)

That's me gone.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

...someone who is, um, currently listening to the soundtrack to Baldur's Gate 2, which some kind soul ripped up from the game and put up for torrent...

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

You might be a nerd if...

you can talk for hours about how much "The Screen Savers" sucks since Tech TV merged with G4.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, 30 April 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Thinkgeek used to sell a t-shirt with a quote from me on it.
That's gotta count for something, right?

― shieldforyoureyes, Saturday, 30 April 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

When I was scrolling down and saw "Must be time to give this an airing again" I was instantly expecting, without wishing to name any names, an ILXer leaning on a giant 20-sided (was it?) die.

So was I!!!

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 30 April 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

I have several friends (who are like, network engineers and the like) who have ThinkGeek tshirts such as "I read your email" and "Phear me for I am root" or wtfever they say.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 30 April 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Strangely, one of said guys is in all other respects totally non-nerd; he's a very good looking young guy into deep house and funk music who goes to dance parties and stuff.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 30 April 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Using words like "cool" when posting to a cosplay thread on an internet forum.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 30 April 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

I guess that cover binary as well.

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who read binary, and those who don't.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 30 April 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

That binary quote was printed out and stuck on the wall of my high school computer lab. We also had one nextstep machine, but it was locked in a wooden case. Only one super nerd had the key.

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Saturday, 30 April 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

The day I met my current girlfriend, I started an excel file...

in this file, i write a sentence or two on what happened between us during that day, and the overall percentage of how i think things are between us

out of these percentages, i have a graph, with average percentage on it too

in addition, i list if i saw her on that day, if she came to visit, and if we had sex with check boxes

out of those checkboxes, i have another graph, showing which weeks had the most visits

i also list how many times we've ever had sex and done other stuff in that field

also have a count of total number of visits

i've been doing this daily for 152 days now

she has no idea.

― Cunga, Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

http://i46.tinypic.com/14nieki.jpg

― Cunga, Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

that green bar is when we started going out officially too

only 2 weeks after meeting her xfd

oh yeah, green/red bars at the side of the dates indicate really, really good days vs days where we were gonna end it

so yeah

it didn't mean to get this big

it started off small

but snowballed so bad

i'm ashamed of it

discuss

― Cunga, Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:38 (fifteen years ago)

one more photo of the graph

http://i47.tinypic.com/2gybxja.png

― Cunga, Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:40 (fifteen years ago)

I bet you're really good at that Virtually Date Ariane game.

― if you see her, say ayo (unregistered), Thursday, 17 June 2010 01:09 (fifteen years ago)

in some ways that is the vilest thing i have ever seen

― psychrock...? (electricsound), Thursday, 17 June 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

I bet you're really good at that Virtually Date Ariane game.

Iz not mine.

Here's the legend, posted much later

visits/ meetups = put a cross here if you met up, bold it and make it dark green if you had sex
# = day number
Date = the date
Day = the day of the week
Description = few sentences of things that happened between you in that day
% = percentage of how well you think that day went
Score = orgasm tally
Chance of visit = your percentage prediction of a visit
Period = block to show your guess of when her period happens
Period error = your margin of error in days

http://i47.tinypic.com/120tnq8.gif

― Cunga, Thursday, 17 June 2010 01:26 (fifteen years ago)

Oh my

― ULTRAMAN dat ho (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 01:33 (fifteen years ago)

block to show your guess of when her period happens

If after 152 days you still have to guess you are doomed.

― I guess for copraphiles this is gonna be awesome (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 17 June 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)

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