RTFM.

[cdave]

The Nerd Handbook, or how to make sense of the geek in your life.

You might’ve noticed your nerd’s strange relation to food. Does he eat fast? Like really fast? You should know what’s going on here. Food is thrown into the irrelevant bucket because it’s getting in the way of the content.

About 80% of this is highly relevant to my behaviour. Who'd have thunk it?

If you liked this sort of link follow andrewducker. I usually don't forward his links because there's a lot of them.

Comments

Re: Quantify

[jon-a-five.livejournal.com]

Actually I think we're approaching this stereotype from opposite viewpoints. You like it because by meeting much of the definition it gives you a sense of belonging to the nerd/geek group. I dislike it because I've often had it negativly applied to me. To the point where people are surprised I have a partner or ask me why I don't dress up as a Klingon (which, I assume, I am supposed to).

Re: Quantify

[cdave]

Pretty true. I'm reclaiming geek as a positive thing.

When I was younger the whole people in Star Trek costumes thing did seem a bit weird.

These days I see costuming as a chance to be really creative. And get it. And some of the people who would have been most likely to put down that sort of thing at school have some amazing photos of themselves at fancy dress parties on facebook.

Re: Quantify

[jon-a-five.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the advert at the top of this thread for a geek to geek dating site? :-)

Re: Quantify

[cdave]

No :D

I spent about 6 months researching dating websites on and off, hadn't come to any conclusion about which I would join (geek-to-geek, london centric, or nationwide), and accidentaly acquired a girlfriend the old fashioned way.

Re: Quantify

[jon-a-five.livejournal.com]

I met Vicky through a little dating site (which got swallowed up by one of the big sites).

By "old fashioned way" do you mean bashing her on the head and dragging her back to the 'cave'? :-p

Re: Quantify

[cdave]

She's a fellow Joinee, and thus fell solidly into the "part of same social activity" and "friend of a friend" categories.