I'm in the process of hacking wireless access in to my TiVo.
I have a 5 digit slashdot ID.
I wrote parts of the infrastructure for one of the longest running MUDs on the net (14 years ago now - and it is still running)
I made an 802.11 antenna out of a chinese bamboo skimmer basket last night.
I saw "Slashdot" the first time at 2:30AM when Rob Malda pasted the link to "//www.cs.hope.edu/~malda/cnd/" to his original static HTML page entitled "Chips 'n Dips." My user ID on there is 5753. :)
I recreated both the Berkeley Systems offices and my San Francisco apartment as levels for Doom. I also hacked the Doom engine to tweak it so it would keep score the way I wanted it to. :)
I kinda assumed everyone had done this at one point or another.
I just ported quake2 to a test board I have on my desk - got it running 2 days ago now...
I'd agree, but say that you've got it backwards - to me nerds are the folk with pocket protectors and bad clothing choices. Geeks are the folk that got rich and lost it all in the .dot bomb, but don't go near star trek conventions.
Hmmm. This must be a linguistic difference between our parts of the country. We have sodas here in New England while you have cokes in Texas. We have bubblers, you have water fountains. We have geeks that go to Star Trek conventions, you have nerds that go to Star Trek conventions. This could explain a lot of the confusion!
I'd agree, but say that you've got it backwards - to me nerds are the folk with pocket protectors and bad clothing choices. Geeks are the folk that got rich and lost it all in the .dot bomb, but don't go near star trek conventions.
Hmmm. This must be a linguistic difference between our parts of the country. We have sodas here in New England while you have cokes in Texas. We have bubblers, you have water fountains. We have geeks that go to Star Trek conventions, you have nerds that go to Star Trek conventions. This could explain a lot of the confusion!
and the fact that I'm Scottish. Nerds were always the guys with sticky tape holding their glasses together in the films when I grew up.
and the fact that I'm Scottish. Nerds were always the guys with sticky tape holding their glasses together in the films when I grew up.
Exactly, the guy with the tape on their glasses, Highwaters (pants that don't reach there shoes) and a Sliderule/Calculator attached to their side. That is a nerd.
Geeks are the peeps that are into technology and toys. Geeks are the guys that rip the 4G microdrive from a MuVo II and use it as compact flash for their cam.
Having a drink with friends the other night and one proudly announced that he are turned 33. My wife looked at him and announced she must be 29. I said 28. It took the young one across the table a few minutes, but she finally said that somehow 1F doesn't work for her.
Having a drink with friends the other night and one proudly announced that he are turned 33. My wife looked at him and announced she must be 29. I said 28. It took the young one across the table a few minutes, but she finally said that somehow 1F doesn't work for her.
It's good to be 20 again...
But like they say, there are only 10 kinds of people in the world...
I recreated both the Berkeley Systems offices and my San Francisco apartment as levels for Doom. I also hacked the Doom engine to tweak it so it would keep score the way I wanted it to. :)
I kinda assumed everyone had done this at one point or another.
I just ported quake2 to a test board I have on my desk - got it running 2 days ago now...
Somehow I doubt that everyone has recreated the offices of the makers of 'After Dark' and 'You Don't Know Jack' at one point or another. You know, the very same offices run by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades (my former employers), who are now the heads of MoveOn.org.
I mean, I can see people creating Doom levels, just not Doom levels that spawned the Flying Toasters! :) I posit that it's more nerdy to do nerdy things in a nerdy context, rather than simply doing nerdy things. :)
Somehow I doubt that everyone has recreated the offices of the makers of 'After Dark' and 'You Don't Know Jack' at one point or another. You know, the very same offices run by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades (my former employers), who are now the heads of MoveOn.org.
I never recreated the offices, but I think I visited them once ... I probably helped print your business cards. :)
I always liked the aquarium myself, but it always took so much RAM (4mb?) ...
Somehow I doubt that everyone has recreated the offices of the makers of 'After Dark' and 'You Don't Know Jack' at one point or another. You know, the very same offices run by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades (my former employers), who are now the heads of MoveOn.org.
I mean, I can see people creating Doom levels, just not Doom levels that spawned the Flying Toasters! :) I posit that it's more nerdy to do nerdy things in a nerdy context, rather than simply doing nerdy things. :)
True - we did our university once though. We also toyed with using web cams to dynamically update the room contents.
Though in the end, we strapped the webcams to scalextrics sets and wrote adaptive neural networks to dynamically optimise the car speed. The entire office had track winding around bench legs and around the place, suspended with fishing line.
Having a drink with friends the other night and one proudly announced that he are turned 33. My wife looked at him and announced she must be 29. I said 28. It took the young one across the table a few minutes, but she finally said that somehow 1F doesn't work for her.
It's good to be 20 again...
But like they say, there are only 10 kinds of people in the world...
I think you've kicked by butt here, but I will add a view geek/nerd ackomplishments just so I fit in..
o taught myself C for fun and still enjoy it's elegance
o wrote a complete palm hotsync communication stack in java so I
wouldn't be tied to the Windows platform. Goal was to create a
business with remote hotsync of news etc. but got board once I
proved I could do it.
o wrote a SNMP app to configure my first wireless access point without
being tied to Windows
o I get very frustrated when family and friends do not clearly define
their requirements when they are asking me to do something
I have boxers with my password sewn into them... :) Just kidding! I'm not much of a geek I'm afraid.
I change my password to match the label sewn into my underpants.
No wait. I don't wear underpants. I live naked in my house with tubes connected to deal with the input and output that keeps me alive. I'm online 24 hours a day.
- You answer yes or no questions with a 1 or 0.
- Without leaving your chair, you can reach out and touch more than one RPG action figure.
- Without leaving your chair, you can reach out and touch more than one computer.
- You laugh way too loud at every one of Dennis Miller's obscure references.
- You have used a Dinty Moore stew can and some old wires to hijack someone's broadband connection and felt perfectly justified in doing so.
- You object to my using the word "broadband" in the previous sentence because it technically doesn't mean the same thing.
- You have "improved" almost every electronic item in your house.
- You haven't actually bought any software since 1997.
uh...im pretty much your typical band geek...other than that im not really geeky im proud to say haha. compared to some people at my school yeah im a geek...but for the most part...not
I just found out that I'm a borderline nerd. If I was more into computers I would've made full blown nerd - have to keep working on it I guess...:) LOL
