How much of a nerd are you?

[PlywoodPascal]

valiant said:

Sorry to spoil it for you but

he dies in the end.

Just to point out that if he didn’t his biography would not have a finite number of pages and therefore by definition any biography you can hold in your hand is of someone who dies in (at, actually!) the end.

Got to go, that weird quiz with Victoria coren is on

[njw1]

Just this afternoon I explained to the missus what bore wash is and how it occurs, she just sat there looking at me stupid...
I'm also a sound technician and I know what ALL the knobs do...
So no, I'm not nerdy at all.

Actually, my daughter once said I'm the most 'man like' person she knows, I took it as a huge compliment.

[Fusion777]

Pit Pony said:

How does a Physic degree lead to a career as a Manufacturing Engineer?

Apply for job, get job

I know plenty in the field with Physics, and even Maths, degrees. Many Engineering degrees probably have more in common with a Physics degree than they do with practical, hands on shop floor work/experience.

This inevitably leads to the age old apprenticeship vs university debate...

[hammo19]

I collect aircraft registrations.

[slopes]

How much of a nerd am i?

Does the fact i know the older polystyrene packing peanuts can be dissolved under a tap qualify as a nerd?

Or that the hole in the end of your cooking pan handles is to put the handle of the wooden spoon in?

[Pit Pony]

njw1 said:

Just this afternoon I explained to the missus what bore wash is and how it occurs, she just sat there looking at me stupid...
I'm also a sound technician and I know what ALL the knobs do...
So no, I'm not nerdy at all.

Actually, my daughter once said I'm the most 'man like' person she knows, I took it as a huge compliment.

Once, some 13 years ago, my daughter then aged 14, decided that the best insult she could think for her Dad was to call me "Gay". I'm not sure why this amused me so much.

[gangzoom]

We use to 'debate' B5 vs DS9, TNG vs Kirk was too mainstream to waste cognitive effort on .

[Collectingbrass]

Whih button do I press if I know the difference in how many rivets are on 66032 & 66302?

[xeny]

I have been at a party where we calculated how large an antenna we would need to successfully receive a missing episode of Dr Who given the level of inverse square law signal degradation at the distance the original transmission wavefront would have been at that time.

[xeny]

Collectingbrass said:

Whih button do I press if I know the difference in how many rivets are on 66032 & 66302?

Diesel Electric, so uncool.

[Pitre]

InitialDave said:

It's not necessarily a dichotomy once you're past school. I'm an absolutely massive nerd, but I also fit a lot of the metrics which are considered to be in opposition to the nerd stereotype.

Use of dichotomy = nerd

Damn, I just used it.

[valiant]

gangzoom said:

We use to 'debate' B5 vs DS9, TNG vs Kirk was too mainstream to waste cognitive effort on .

B5 was superior in virtually every way (except for some shonky cgi)

[toasty]

I work in IT, play video games and get fairly nerdy on certain topics. That said, the IT Crowd are several levels above me in the geeky stakes.

[eharding]

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[ben5575]

I went on an orienteering course today which ended with me running through heather trying to find orange flags. It was fun.

[dandarez]

Skeptisk said:

I just spent a chunk of the afternoon watching 5-7 min videos of people from the different areas of Denmark talking about themselves and their region, to highlight the different dialects of Danish (a lot of them moaning about how they are looked down upon by people from Sjælland / Copenhagen).

When I was at school (a long time ago now) I sought validation by trying to hang out with the in crowd. Only now, many years later I realise that deep down I am a nerd and should have been out and proud (so to speak!)

So where would you put yourself on the scale?

I'm a nerd. An old one.

[MadCaptainJack]

miniman said:

No HP 12C? Poor show.

[Hoofy]

gruffgriff said:

I too have a floppy secreted away because when they're gone, they're gone!

I'm not sure that's a great chat up line.

[ThingsBehindTheSun]

When every school was given a BBC micro I used to spend my lunchtimes at the age of 9 trying to program it in Basic.

Got my first computer at 10, a Commodore 64, did a degree in computer science and still work in It. Into retro computers although this tends to be watching videos on YouTube and not owning any.

Used to build my own PCs and mess around setting up emulators but cannot be bothered anymore.

Not into Sci fi or any Marvel/DC films or comics.

Looking back at my time at uni, my friends and I were a bit like the Big Bang Theory.

[DodgyGeezer]

PlywoodPascal said:

valiant said:

Sorry to spoil it for you but

he dies in the end.

Just to point out that if he didn’t his biography would not have a finite number of pages and therefore by definition any biography you can hold in your hand is of someone who dies in (at, actually!) the end.

not quite - there are loads of bio's where the subject is still around and kicking. Obviously at some point they'll shuffle off but that's another story (so to speak)