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The last few weeks we've been talking binary and hex in the forums, so I know we're full of nerds here. But yesterday I was linked to a website full of nerd wear. When I understood over half the jokes, I realized that I, unfortunately, am a nerd.

For instance:

2 b or not 2 b
Geek Love Poem

So, how did you learn that you're a nerd?
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[EmperorZombie]

When I look at all the old XKCD comics that I never understood, and now understand, it's a humbling feeling

Also, because i've been a moderately agressive arguer of Star Wars lore with all my friends occasionally
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[Zombifox]

Just now when I seriously considered buying the Geek love poem shirt

[Dazombie]

I think that, somehow, I always knew :

- I was good at school (well, more like great).
- I was instantly a Star Wars fan the first time I saw A New Hope (back when Han was the one shooting first).
- Back in the days, one of my favorite shows on TV was Star Trek : The Next Generation.
- I started playing live-action medieval role-playing games when I was 20, where I got to put on a medieval plated armor and wack the heck out of other players with a foam sword.
- After that, I got into the Internet, I started making my own websites.
- Then, I got (back) into LEGO as an adult collector, and started hanging around here.
- Nowadays, instead of watching reality shows like most people, I watch shows like Mythbusters or Battlestar Galactica. Also, instead of putting on the sport channel like any other normal guy, I put on Space or the Discovery channel.
- I'm part of a LUG.

With all that evidence, how can I ever doubt that I am a true nerd?
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[James P. Zomblton]

I first realized I was a nerd when I was in a conversation and pulled out a reference to an obscure bit of Batman trivia that I had to explain (this was when I was about 12).

Everything went downhill from there.
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[Duchessa]

I have more than 600 Lego sets / 100 000 pcs at home. I'm a woman.

Now, if those facts alone doesn't make me a nerd...
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[bluemoose]

The geek love poem is a great t

Ian

[Joedward]

The love poem is awesome.

And I <3 this.

I think it's safe to say I'm a nerd, and that some of you guys pushed me further into nerdism than I thought I could ever go.


Best one
Or this one
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[ZombieSolo]

I've always been a nerd. Earliest signs I remember are from the first grade, for some art assignment... I painted a bunch of flying saucers landing on the moon. As a bored kid I would make little toy robots and aliens out of duct tape, cardboard, and other junk from the garage or recycling bin. The most prominent thing I remember from my trip to New York from around the 4th grade is seeing the Skylon Tower at Niagra Falls, because it looked like a UFO. One of my favorite Christmas presents was a telescope and for about two weeks I was keeping track of the moons I could see around Jupiter.

In an 8th grade elective class called "Engineering Concepts" I invented a backpack with a built in stool so kids wouldn't have to sit on the sidewalk or lean on the fence while waiting for the bus - and I used the prototype for the rest of that year (I was also one of only a few others to get an A in the class).

In high school I coded a functional ascii based Pong program in PASCAL, in my spare time after finishing the assigned class work. In my first physics class I designed the only hot air balloon in the class to successfully fly. I also won an egg drop competition by building a 4 foot hang glider from duct tape and ski poles. The only clubs I was in were the Ultimate Frisbee Organization (possibly the nerdiest sport you can find in high school) and the Science Olympiad team (on which I won numerous medals over the years in various events). For the "Bio-Camp" trip my senior year (the cool science/electronics/biology instructors took about 40 students of to some YMCA camp for a few days out of the week for various quasi-educational activities, and a massive snowball war) I organized a GPS Scavenger hunt. Plus, I started collecting Star Wars toys around then too...

After that I learned to draft on a computer and used every machine I had access to in college to make something dorky like this and that. I worked at a theater while finishing my AS degree, and declined management training so I could train to be a projectionist there (because I loved getting free movies but hated dealing with all the stupid customers). I spent an entire 6 hour shift explaining the Star Wars plot to one of the other workers one day (and only got half way through Empire as it were). One of the reasons I decided to take my current job was the possibility to design and build my own life size R2D2s.

I don't know any programming languages anymore but from the basics I learned I can usually gleen the intent of code snippets I see. Also, I never went into any high level math or science classes but things like /(bb|[^b]{2})/ amuse me to no end. XKCD still manages to perplex me on rare occasion, but typically drives me to learn something new (though predominantly useless for my own purposes).

So yeah. Add to the list my willingness to write out the history above... and I'd say I'm constantly discovering the full extent of my nerdiness. I still affirm that I'm more of a geek than a nerd, and almost as much of a dork about it all, but that's a whole nother discussion we've already covered.

[Zombie_Fisto]

I found out when I realized that, hey, I've got a series recording setup for every single star trek series on my comcast DVR. And even my extreme love of playing and watching sports cannot not save me from that.
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[DestructiveZombie]

I didn't know it then, but I was a nerd/geek since before I remember. My earliest memory is looking at the pictures in this catalogue for various Star Wars items.
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[James P. Zomblton]

I'm gonna' add to mine: When I realized I could do a Rubik's Cube in under a minute.
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[Icezombie]

[Joedward]

Ice', was that very embarrassing for you?

[TK-425]

I don't know exactly when I found out I was a nerd.

But it was probably when I saw Star Wars then later found all the sets in my Lego Catalog and asked for them all for my birthday.

And now, I'm the only one in my middle school class who is interested in the Periodic Table of Elements. And the only one who can quote Star Wars at will. Especially Han Solo.

I don't exactly now when I found out I was a nerd, but I know I am one.
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[H3D1]

I don't know when I found out I was a nerd, but it was pretty long ago. Maybe when I started trying to "Fix" my dad's computer's floppy drive with a screwdriver when I was two.
Also, I take every class seriously, almost skipped 7th Grade Math, etc...

[ZombieKenobi]

[Firespray]

Definitely became a nerd when I first saw Star Wars when I was about 6 or 7, space and sci-fi was instantly awesome after that Then we got our first computer around the same time and it was amazing to me, <3 Windows 95.
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[ZombieAndi]

Maybe since I first saw Spaceballs (this parody of Mel Brooks).
Because instead of laughing and fast forgetting it again like my friends did, I wanted to see the movies it was based on. So I watched my first Star Trek and Star Wars movies. And loved them ever since.
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[ZombieAndi]

One question: Why is it bad to like sci-fi films or series or being good at the computer?
Because reading what Wikipedia writes about "Nerd", it rather seems negative to be one.
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[Joedward]

Clearly they don't appreciate us. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, wrong with beeing a nerd.

(aside from a few social hiccups of course )
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[ZombieFlynn]

[Zombie Fetty]

[Zombie_Fisto]

[James P. Zomblton]

[Zombiegoo]

The issue of nerdiness has always been tough one for me. On one hand, I don't feel like a nerd; programming and fuction of nearly all kinds of machines (especially computer) is pure Gibberish for me, I don't really collect anything nor follow any sci-fi series as intensively as nerds usually do.

Then again, I like sci-fi very much, that and fantasy are pretty much my favourite genres in literature as well as in films. I'm not entirely helpless with computers - in the matter of the fact, I spend a considerably large amount of my spare time with them (although who wouldn't on these days..) - and I apparently am quite good at school. I understand some nerd humour (the Geek Love Poem was particularly awesome) as well.
And, what's most important, I'm here, typing on a LEGO Star Wars fan community forum.

So yeah, maybe I am a nerd after all..

[Iare Zombite]

There's different kinds of nerds.

I'm computer science nerd that also loves sci-fi.
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[ThePlasticJedi]

I'm not a nerd.

And if I am, then I have yet to discover it to be so.
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[KungZombie]

Paul, you spend your free time hanging out on an internet forum and in an IRC chatroom devoted to Star Wars LEGO. Welcome to the fold.
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