The Geek Forum

  • May 21, 2024, 10:28:28 PM
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Due to the prolific nature of these forums, poster aggression is advised.

*

Recent Forum Posts

Shout Box

Forum Stats

Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 129658
  • Total Topics: 7202
  • Online Today: 154
  • Online Ever: 1013
  • (January 12, 2023, 01:18:11 AM)
Pages: 1 [2] 3

Author Topic: Who here is the biggest geek?  (Read 10916 times)

TheJudge

  • Administrator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +330/-6
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 5270
    • View Profile
Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2006, 03:08:12 PM »
Waitaminute. It took you a decate to build two computers? That's not very geeky.

*runs*
Logged

pbsaurus

  • Hacker
  • ****
  • Coolio Points: +354/-31
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 9981
  • Everyone Loves The King Of The Sea
    • View Profile
    • http://www.myspace.com/flipperpete
Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2006, 03:30:50 PM »
Maybe those two computers are being built to come up with the ultimate question.  Now that would be pretty dang geeky.
Logged

Revka

  • Jail Bait
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +28/-1
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 186
    • View Profile
Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #27 on: May 26, 2006, 07:48:36 AM »
I rigged Lotus: 123 to do some looping stuff (that it was never designed to do) and also play a clip from AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!" (cuz it was dirty, and it was done dirt cheap).

C'mon... back me up on this Demo!   :wink:

Dirty
Logged
"I think very few of us are not 'messed up' by the internet that are members here. Really, very few are actually "normal" humans." - Chris

Socrates

  • Wannabe Professional Blogger
  • **
  • Coolio Points: +123/-2
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 567
    • View Profile
Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #28 on: May 26, 2006, 12:25:42 PM »
Quote from: catwritr

I regularly play V:tES and got victory points in the last tournament (only my second evar) I participated in.


My wife used to love that game.  In fact she has a huge stack of cards from before it got that name and from the first Sabbat expansion.
She's an Electrical Engineer

Me?  Well I run a D&D game...
Logged
--this space intentionally left blank--

hackess

  • Forum Moderator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +10/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 4733
  • DFG
    • View Profile
Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #29 on: May 26, 2006, 05:38:53 PM »
Ah, Jyhad.

...if she doesn't want those cards anymore, I can take 'em off her hands.  :D
Logged

Demosthenes

  • Evil Ex-HN Moderator
  • Administrator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +567/-72
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 9904
  • Just try me. See what happens.
    • View Profile
    • Zombo
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #30 on: May 30, 2006, 04:09:38 PM »
Quote from: Revka on May 26, 2006, 07:48:36 AM
I rigged Lotus: 123 to do some looping stuff (that it was never designed to do) and also play a clip from AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!" (cuz it was dirty, and it was done dirt cheap).

C'mon... back me up on this Demo!   :wink:

Dirty

It's true, I was there when he did it.  We had a client that insisted on receiving nightly call center reports with numbers crunched from their data in a Lotus spreadsheet... Revka got sick of having to manually mangle this stuff, so he rigged up some nifty scripting in Lotus to handle the formatting and it played that very WAV file when it finished so we could tell when it was done even if we were at a different workstation working on something else.  It was pretty l337.

My primary geek factors:

1) I currently spend all of my time on all of my home computers in Slackware Linux.  I only boot into Windows to play games.

2) My background is in Nuclear Science, but I work as a server admin for a data center where I do day-to-day management of around 140 terminal servers and I've started doing server builds and deployments as well

3) One of my primary hobbies is theoretical physics and cosmology

4) One of my other primary hobbies is tabletop RPGs including AD&D and HackMaster

5) I'm going to a con for that hobby in about a week and a half, and driving 7 hours each way to do so

6) Sometimes I make desicions in the form of mental IF/ENDIF and CASE statements

7) I started doing what I consider to be "serious" programming when I was 12 (it was in Assembler for Apple II and IIgs shortly after that)

8) I've dumped girls/women because I didn't think they were smart enough
« Last Edit: May 30, 2006, 04:11:55 PM by Demosthenes »
Logged

Coolio Points: 89,000,998,776,554,211,222
Detta Puzzle Points: 45

Banning forum idiots since 2001

Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +286/-8
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 3892
  • IT'S A TARP
    • View Profile
    • The Geekery
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #31 on: May 31, 2006, 11:41:36 AM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on May 30, 2006, 04:09:38 PM
2) My background is in Nuclear Science, but I work as a server admin for a data center where I do day-to-day management of around 140 terminal servers and I've started doing server builds and deployments as well
...
8) I've dumped girls/women because I didn't think they were smart enough

I think the fact that you have a background in Nuclear Science, and have dumped women because they were not smart enough puts you in good shape to walk away victorious.

Were the women that you dumped really hot, but just dumb?
Logged

Min

  • Nice Ex-Hackernetwork Moderator
  • Forum Moderator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +468/-13
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5970
  • Slacker Wiseass
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #32 on: May 31, 2006, 11:47:54 AM »
I'm a crappy geek.  Alls I got is a math degree and a bunch of fake internet friends.

I'd get dumped by Demo.
Logged
Flammable : Inflammable :: Duh : No Duh
"I TYPE 120 WORDS PER MINUTE, BUT IT'S IN MY OWN LANGUAGE!"  -ivan
1,180,463,441,680 Coolio Points

TheJudge

  • Administrator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +330/-6
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 5270
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #33 on: May 31, 2006, 11:58:46 AM »
Humped then dumped!
Logged

dcrog

  • Banned on the run
  • Hacker
  • ****
  • Coolio Points: +253/-2
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1815
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #34 on: May 31, 2006, 03:30:10 PM »
I only weigh about 175 lbs. so I know it can't be me.
Logged

Old enough to know better.
Apparently not wise enough.

And who says with age come's wisdom?

sociald1077

  • Hacker
  • ****
  • Coolio Points: +129/-4
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 1184
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #35 on: May 31, 2006, 10:40:17 PM »
I too am a poser Geek. I am more of a Metal Head with a knack for working on computers.
Logged
"Guns don't kill people! PHYSICS kill people!" - Dick Soloman

Mr_J_

  • Annoying Newbie
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +2/-7
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 30
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #36 on: June 01, 2006, 10:32:22 AM »
This thread is making me feel a lot better!
I'm nearly normal!

I can only use Photoshop, Flash, Office...
Windows... I could be called a junior systems administrator. I'm the one who stays in the establishment while the senior goes to his other job, the real one he does full time.
Linux... Still newbish I guess, because I can't fix nearly any problems without help. Love tinkering with it tho!
GIMP, paint, OOo...
General understanding of apps interface logic. So I'm not spilling loads of app names...

Pascal, C, VB (a bit I already forgot most of this), HTML, CSS... Understanding of programing logic...

I can build, detect errors and fix PCs...

The greatest geek might be the dude who built the Abacus for the first time! The first of all computacional artifacts I believe...
Or the dudes who thought ENIAC was a simple enough machine...
Logged

Demosthenes

  • Evil Ex-HN Moderator
  • Administrator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +567/-72
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 9904
  • Just try me. See what happens.
    • View Profile
    • Zombo
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #37 on: June 02, 2006, 11:26:53 AM »
Quote from: Chris on May 31, 2006, 11:41:36 AM
Were the women that you dumped really hot, but just dumb?

Some of them were.  Not all of them would really qualify as "dumb" per se, but it's difficult to relate to the normals for me sometimes, much less have a relationship with them.

And Detta, a math degree goes a long way where geekiness is concerned.  I'm married now, but I can honestly say I probably couldn't in good geekiness dump a math teacher.   :wink:
Logged

Coolio Points: 89,000,998,776,554,211,222
Detta Puzzle Points: 45

Banning forum idiots since 2001

Crystalmonkey

  • Nazi Absinthe Drinker
  • Hacker
  • ****
  • Coolio Points: +167/-3
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 1515
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #38 on: June 02, 2006, 12:50:03 PM »
Quote from: Detta on May 31, 2006, 11:47:54 AM
Alls I got is a math degree and a bunch of fake internet friends.

As far as I know, I exist.

The others, on the other hand, may be an extension of a severe psychological disorder that causes you to write the replies of others and then forget.

If so, I would ask you to stop creating some of the stupid people that like to join.
Logged
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." - Anonymous

"Sadly, computers don't have rights, so moral arguments aside, I'm afraid it's quite legal to run Windows on them." - /. User 468275

Min

  • Nice Ex-Hackernetwork Moderator
  • Forum Moderator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +468/-13
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5970
  • Slacker Wiseass
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #39 on: June 02, 2006, 01:25:48 PM »
Will do, Bud.
Logged
Flammable : Inflammable :: Duh : No Duh
"I TYPE 120 WORDS PER MINUTE, BUT IT'S IN MY OWN LANGUAGE!"  -ivan
1,180,463,441,680 Coolio Points

ivan

  • Guest
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #40 on: June 02, 2006, 01:43:06 PM »
Quote from: Detta on May 31, 2006, 11:47:54 AM
Alls I got is... a bunch of fake internet friends.



Wait. I didn't see that before.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK, SUPERGIRL-BUTT!!!!!!!!!!
Logged

Min

  • Nice Ex-Hackernetwork Moderator
  • Forum Moderator
  • Hacker
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +468/-13
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 5970
  • Slacker Wiseass
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #41 on: June 02, 2006, 01:48:15 PM »
You're right.  I've met Pbsaurus, so he's not fake.
Logged
Flammable : Inflammable :: Duh : No Duh
"I TYPE 120 WORDS PER MINUTE, BUT IT'S IN MY OWN LANGUAGE!"  -ivan
1,180,463,441,680 Coolio Points

pbsaurus

  • Hacker
  • ****
  • Coolio Points: +354/-31
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 9981
  • Everyone Loves The King Of The Sea
    • View Profile
    • http://www.myspace.com/flipperpete
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #42 on: June 02, 2006, 01:49:16 PM »
No kidding, she has even met some of us.
Logged

Odd_Bloke

  • Jail Bait
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +7/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 100
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #43 on: June 02, 2006, 02:12:51 PM »
Perhaps she meant you're just not very genuine...
Logged
"I am, after all," said Pooh, "a bear of very little brain." -- A.A. Milne

ivan

  • Guest
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #44 on: June 02, 2006, 03:23:35 PM »
I'm more genuine on the internet than in person.
Logged

Odd_Bloke

  • Jail Bait
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +7/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 100
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #45 on: June 02, 2006, 04:34:21 PM »
Quote from: ivan on June 02, 2006, 03:23:35 PM
I'm more genuine on the internet than in person.

Then perhaps she's talking about you in real life, relative to your online persona...
Logged
"I am, after all," said Pooh, "a bear of very little brain." -- A.A. Milne

ivan

  • Guest
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #46 on: June 02, 2006, 04:40:58 PM »
I think she is. I think when pbSaurus told her what I'm like in person, she was all like "oh my GOD! I'M NOT LISTENING LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!"
Logged

Odd_Bloke

  • Jail Bait
  • *
  • Coolio Points: +7/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 100
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #47 on: June 02, 2006, 04:50:52 PM »
Quote from: ivan on June 02, 2006, 04:40:58 PM
I think she is. I think when pbSaurus told her what I'm like in person, she was all like "oh my GOD! I'M NOT LISTENING LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!"
When I read this, two responses came to mind. You get to pick which one you prefer and respond to that one:
  • Every girl I've ever tried to talk to responds like that...
  • Pshaw! Women!
Logged
"I am, after all," said Pooh, "a bear of very little brain." -- A.A. Milne

ivan

  • Guest
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #48 on: June 02, 2006, 04:51:51 PM »
I'm at a loss. I'll get back to you.
Logged

Crystalmonkey

  • Nazi Absinthe Drinker
  • Hacker
  • ****
  • Coolio Points: +167/-3
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 1515
    • View Profile
Re: Who here is the biggest geek?
« Reply #49 on: June 02, 2006, 05:48:31 PM »
Quote from: Odd_Bloke on June 02, 2006, 04:50:52 PM
When I read this, two responses came to mind. You get to pick which one you prefer and respond to that one:
  • Every girl I've ever tried to talk to responds like that...


Yeah well when you start off by saying "Well I just got out of prison for rape and I was wondering..."
Logged
"Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." - Anonymous

"Sadly, computers don't have rights, so moral arguments aside, I'm afraid it's quite legal to run Windows on them." - /. User 468275
Pages: 1 [2] 3
« previous next »