Are We Nerds?
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I was classified as a nerd once, even voted most likely to fail by my High School class.
I ended up going into the Navy, Learning electronics. Toaday I work in satellite communications, married with 7 kids, and still play with trains.
Besides, Nerds have most of the money now... Bill gates, Steve Jobs (RIP), etc....
I ended up going into the Navy, Learning electronics. Toaday I work in satellite communications, married with 7 kids, and still play with trains.
Besides, Nerds have most of the money now... Bill gates, Steve Jobs (RIP), etc....
FYI, I am a programming mentor for a FIRST Robotics team.
The Founder of FIRST, Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research and inventor of the Segway, calls us "SUPER-NERDS".
We are the people who don't want to play the video games, we want to make them.
By the by, the governer of my state, Michigan, is Rick Snyder, self-billed as "one tough nerd". PLEASE, no politics here.
At school, everyone loved me because I was Karl-with-a-K, or Krazy-Train (yes, the Great Ozz wrote my theme song!).
They accepted me for who I was, but still get bored when I yammer on and on about trains.
So therefore, I heartily accept the title bestowed upon me of NERD.
Just don't call me a geek, that I am not.
The Founder of FIRST, Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research and inventor of the Segway, calls us "SUPER-NERDS".
We are the people who don't want to play the video games, we want to make them.
By the by, the governer of my state, Michigan, is Rick Snyder, self-billed as "one tough nerd". PLEASE, no politics here.
At school, everyone loved me because I was Karl-with-a-K, or Krazy-Train (yes, the Great Ozz wrote my theme song!).
They accepted me for who I was, but still get bored when I yammer on and on about trains.
So therefore, I heartily accept the title bestowed upon me of NERD.
Just don't call me a geek, that I am not.
My Turn To Comment
thank god this thread is on here
i am the only trainzer i know of for miles
the closest trainzer i know is Slave-Driver
and Stealthsteam
both of which are good friends
anyways
i am some what a nerd
so yes
to answer the question on page 1
i am a nerd
and i am proud of it
thank god this thread is on here
i am the only trainzer i know of for miles
the closest trainzer i know is Slave-Driver
and Stealthsteam
both of which are good friends
anyways
i am some what a nerd
so yes
to answer the question on page 1
i am a nerd
and i am proud of it
To my friends and many other classmates, I am considered just another black student from the black ghetto that happened to be smart enough to go to a "quite expensive school", I really do not really talk about trains or trainz around my friends, I am a quite social person, who loves going to parties and have fun, but that is me,
from my experience, being social is good, and knowing people helps you, your friends my help you with girls/women
from my experience, being social is good, and knowing people helps you, your friends my help you with girls/women
Nerd? Hmm hard to say. I've always been too busy having fun to be worried about what others think. Been a muso, a mine equip tech, a motorcycle/vehicle customiser, a manager, a fork driver, overhead crane operator, an inspector of this and that... nearly completed studies to enable me to teach and I'm really looking forward to that.
I questioned the head of an educational institution recently with a view to teaching and he was stunned that one could acquire so many certificates in so many fields, how so? because the aim was always to have fun and the insatiable quest for knowledge.
Techo geek? yes for sure.
Love the gals eternally and test driven quite a few different models and all price ranges, never had my wallet hoovered via a church license though lol.
I also am of the opinion that those who are younger and suspect they may be unpopular shouldn't worry one iota about that. Ultimately you either have a brain and can think for yourself or you are a sheep.
To engage with others from all levels of society is the key to great fun.
If I'm a nerd? well I'm mightily happy about that! \o/
I questioned the head of an educational institution recently with a view to teaching and he was stunned that one could acquire so many certificates in so many fields, how so? because the aim was always to have fun and the insatiable quest for knowledge.
Techo geek? yes for sure.
Love the gals eternally and test driven quite a few different models and all price ranges, never had my wallet hoovered via a church license though lol.
I also am of the opinion that those who are younger and suspect they may be unpopular shouldn't worry one iota about that. Ultimately you either have a brain and can think for yourself or you are a sheep.
To engage with others from all levels of society is the key to great fun.
If I'm a nerd? well I'm mightily happy about that! \o/
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@5050657j
i am just like you
i dont mention trainz
but other than that i am a nerd
but i still get in good with the ladies
because i know how to write poetry
and the ladies love that
so
this is what i ment to find on my last post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=galiqUxBzbc
i am just like you
i dont mention trainz
but other than that i am a nerd
but i still get in good with the ladies
because i know how to write poetry
and the ladies love that
so
this is what i ment to find on my last post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=galiqUxBzbc
Well If I am a nerd, Ive been wearing my Jeans too low. Im pretty sure I get all the hot girls too at least I party and hang out with all of them.
You know your a nerd when
--there is a high amount of time locked in your house
--You stink
--kids aim dodgeballs at you
--your picked last in sports
--You cant play sports(not handicapped people)
--You cant talk to the other sex.
-- You know poetry
I might have forgotten a couple, but thats a pretty good list. I don't fit in that list.Adam might fit in that category though.
Josh
You know your a nerd when
--there is a high amount of time locked in your house
--You stink
--kids aim dodgeballs at you
--your picked last in sports
--You cant play sports(not handicapped people)
--You cant talk to the other sex.
-- You know poetry
I might have forgotten a couple, but thats a pretty good list. I don't fit in that list.Adam might fit in that category though.
JoshTake a shower.
Leave the house.
Go to a sporting event.
Talk poetry to all those girls sitting around bored because the guys playing sports are ignoring them.
They'll stop throwing dodge balls at you because the girls will get mad.
Watch your list get turned upside down.
Easy as that.
Dave.......
Leave the house.
Go to a sporting event.
Talk poetry to all those girls sitting around bored because the guys playing sports are ignoring them.
They'll stop throwing dodge balls at you because the girls will get mad.
Watch your list get turned upside down.
Easy as that.
Dave.......
Bragging about the chicks you "get" makes you sound like a bit arrogant. There's being a nerd and then there's being an obvious tool, and quite frankly both annoy the hell outta me.
Everyone hobby has its share of nerds, geeks, or whatever nomenclature of choice. There are people who are very discrete about their hobbies, and others who are very public about it. It just depends on how comfortable you are with the hobby you choose to participate in.
There are people who I think do take it a bit far, by pasting their hobby all over their profile pictures and using hobby-specific terminology in their display names and screennames. It's not really a style I think is healthy to adopt, and it probably won't be appreciated by many people who aren't interested in the hobby. I'm a firm believer in "loving in moderation".
Just my 2 cents.
Everyone hobby has its share of nerds, geeks, or whatever nomenclature of choice. There are people who are very discrete about their hobbies, and others who are very public about it. It just depends on how comfortable you are with the hobby you choose to participate in.
There are people who I think do take it a bit far, by pasting their hobby all over their profile pictures and using hobby-specific terminology in their display names and screennames. It's not really a style I think is healthy to adopt, and it probably won't be appreciated by many people who aren't interested in the hobby. I'm a firm believer in "loving in moderation".
Just my 2 cents.
Well If I am a nerd, Ive been wearing my Jeans too low. Im pretty sure I get all the hot girls too at least I party and hang out with all of them.
You know your a nerd when
--there is a high amount of time locked in your house
--You stink
--kids aim dodgeballs at you
--your picked last in sports
--You cant play sports(not handicapped people)
--You cant talk to the other sex.
-- You know poetry
I might have forgotten a couple, but thats a pretty good list. I don't fit in that list.Adam might fit in that category though.
I spend a lot of the time in the house, then again Ive broken a bone otherwise I would be out.
I dont smell, wash twice a day.
I was very good at dodgeball, could be to do with I used to have a secret stash of cricket balls kept in my pockets whilst playing.
I was never picked last because I used to truant sports lessons.
I cant play sports, I hated sports with a passion, I found it was just a d*** waggling contest for the thick kids, plus I was crap.
I indeed cant talk to the other sex unless drunk.
Dont know much poetry.
I used to look like the steretypical nerd until I discovered Ska music, you know trilby and harrington jacket.
Nerd rating 2/5.
Note on sports, entirely pointless and makes thick people feel useful.
Most of friends know I like trains, I dont care if they know, I have to suffer there crap talking about football and what not.
American schools sound very tough, british schools are more accepting of people with different hobbies, they're not perfect though.
when you get into the higher years, everyone gets on with each other more and dont get into silly arguements.
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According to this:
http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php
"Not nerdy, but definitely not hip."
As if I´d care!
I have always loved trains (and trams) since I was a bairn (child to those unfortunate not to live here). At about 9 visiting a west of Scotland coastal resort I went missing and my parents reckoned they knew where I would be. Not at the nearvy beach but the qually near railway cutting watching rakes of passenger trains coming and going! What I couldn't get my head round was the army of schoolboys then you would find at main stations taking engine numbers. Did try it once with Glasgow tram numbers when very young but gave up after a day.
Now the wee grand-daughter of a friend of mine has a wee girl of four (she's five just before Christmas) and Shannon and I get on like a house of fire. A clever wee lassie for her age. When she visited me she couldn't get enough of being on Trainz and in a cab. Now her mother says that the child loves trains and travelling on them and wants a train set for Christmas! Even when she was taken on the Glasgow Subway (only one outside London) she was thrilled to bits. Never liked spoiling kids but making an exception........!
Now the wee grand-daughter of a friend of mine has a wee girl of four (she's five just before Christmas) and Shannon and I get on like a house of fire. A clever wee lassie for her age. When she visited me she couldn't get enough of being on Trainz and in a cab. Now her mother says that the child loves trains and travelling on them and wants a train set for Christmas! Even when she was taken on the Glasgow Subway (only one outside London) she was thrilled to bits. Never liked spoiling kids but making an exception........!
Read enough of 'The Broons' and 'Biffa bacon' to understand the scots.
[For those not proficiant with The Broons, they were a cartoon family which featured in the scottish weekly, The Sunday Post, google them; biffa bacon is a charector that featured in the Viz.]
bassist118
Suffering for his art.
Except for Liverpool hahaha now I've made myself a nerd in one sentance :hehe::hehe: Mind you I only live 20 odd miles from there...
My six year old lad is into trains because of trainz too, I think it makes a good educational tool, shunting requires alot of latteral thinking and route building teaches you patients - lots of patients :hehe:
Andy
This was a very thought provoking post, and are we nerds/nurds however you want to spell it. No!
When I was in high school, oh so many decades ago, there were two groups of people, Jocks and Nerds. Jocks talked about sports, and about sports, sports, game matches, sports, and sports, and girls once or twice, but mostly sports. They reminded me of birds, as in roosters, parrots, and male turkeys that go around strutting to show off their bodies and pick on others to show their position. The jocks were the ones that had to show how tough they were by dumping someone else's books in the hall.
The nerds, who got picked on by the jocks, talked about science, math, and other interesting stuff. Where did I fit in? Well in the middle. I couldn't care less really about sports. Still can't and never will. I usually hung out with the nerds because of their hatred of sports. Occasionally I'd have to interface with the jocks, but not much. I usually ended up helping them with their homework. Most were pretty dumb, mostly out of their nerdy obsession for sports.
Sports for me are boring. and as someone else said, they make the thick-heads feel important as they push their testosterone around the gym. I do like to watch a good boxing match, or Nascar race occasionally, but overall I could care less about Monday Night Football. The other reason was I was somewhat handicapped. I was born with a clubbed foot, had surgery when I was young, and could never run fast. Not running fast meant you were picked on, and was usually picked last for any team. So as time went on, I hated sports more and more, and ended up with more interest in science, music, history, and philosophy, so I hung out more with the nerds, although I never was as "smart" as they were.
Was I picked on in school? I sure was. This is because I was a critical thinker, and was not a follower. I was also called a lot of nasty things, which I won't say here in the forum. Are they true, no! I have had several girlfriends in my life. These relationships lasted until the old, lets get married question came up. At this point, I chose to run because I don't like commitments. The last GF I had wanted me to move in. She was a 100% control freak who liked to order me around. We got along fine until I told her that it would be a nice idea if we went somewhere other than where she wanted to go. Women can be weird! Sorry Nikki, don't take offense to this.
Anyway as time went on, my music interests grew, and I even had less in common with the so-called nerds. In fact today, I'm a loaner at work because I truly have nothing in common with anyone I work with. I never did anywhere I worked, and probably never will. So I keep to myself, show off my storm chasing pictures when asked, talk a little bit about music and trains when asked, and that's it. No one really cares, and I care even less about football.
The geeks as we know them today, didn't exist back then. This is a new phenomenon that has come out with the advent of personal computers. At first the nerds were the ones that made these computers work, and people would call the family nerd to fix them. In some respects this earned the respect of the family brainer, but you know this token respect only goes so far. Am I the geek at home. Probably, but out of vocation and not love. I fell into this role because I needed a job, so today I get called whenever something electronic dies, has technical problems, etc. This is also my work as well, which as we know keeps us tied at the desk as we try to keep up on new technology.
Anyway, what I'm getting at here, by using my own life example, is we are who we are by our genes, interests, and exposure to things in life. As we "grow up", and I put that in quotes because I feel we never grow up, but only mature in various ways instead, our interests jell together in one form or another to form our personalities.
So, David, you're not a nerd, geek, or whatever. You are yourself, and should/will always be a self-starter and thinker. Don't let others persuade you to be otherwise. Thinking critically instead of with the pack will get you further along in life than you think. It's the outside-thinkers that became our best leaders and inventors; not the sheep who go along with the popular opinions and ideas.
John
When I was in high school, oh so many decades ago, there were two groups of people, Jocks and Nerds. Jocks talked about sports, and about sports, sports, game matches, sports, and sports, and girls once or twice, but mostly sports. They reminded me of birds, as in roosters, parrots, and male turkeys that go around strutting to show off their bodies and pick on others to show their position. The jocks were the ones that had to show how tough they were by dumping someone else's books in the hall.
The nerds, who got picked on by the jocks, talked about science, math, and other interesting stuff. Where did I fit in? Well in the middle. I couldn't care less really about sports. Still can't and never will. I usually hung out with the nerds because of their hatred of sports. Occasionally I'd have to interface with the jocks, but not much. I usually ended up helping them with their homework. Most were pretty dumb, mostly out of their nerdy obsession for sports.
Sports for me are boring. and as someone else said, they make the thick-heads feel important as they push their testosterone around the gym. I do like to watch a good boxing match, or Nascar race occasionally, but overall I could care less about Monday Night Football. The other reason was I was somewhat handicapped. I was born with a clubbed foot, had surgery when I was young, and could never run fast. Not running fast meant you were picked on, and was usually picked last for any team. So as time went on, I hated sports more and more, and ended up with more interest in science, music, history, and philosophy, so I hung out more with the nerds, although I never was as "smart" as they were.
Was I picked on in school? I sure was. This is because I was a critical thinker, and was not a follower. I was also called a lot of nasty things, which I won't say here in the forum. Are they true, no! I have had several girlfriends in my life. These relationships lasted until the old, lets get married question came up. At this point, I chose to run because I don't like commitments. The last GF I had wanted me to move in. She was a 100% control freak who liked to order me around. We got along fine until I told her that it would be a nice idea if we went somewhere other than where she wanted to go. Women can be weird! Sorry Nikki, don't take offense to this.
Anyway as time went on, my music interests grew, and I even had less in common with the so-called nerds. In fact today, I'm a loaner at work because I truly have nothing in common with anyone I work with. I never did anywhere I worked, and probably never will. So I keep to myself, show off my storm chasing pictures when asked, talk a little bit about music and trains when asked, and that's it. No one really cares, and I care even less about football.
The geeks as we know them today, didn't exist back then. This is a new phenomenon that has come out with the advent of personal computers. At first the nerds were the ones that made these computers work, and people would call the family nerd to fix them. In some respects this earned the respect of the family brainer, but you know this token respect only goes so far. Am I the geek at home. Probably, but out of vocation and not love. I fell into this role because I needed a job, so today I get called whenever something electronic dies, has technical problems, etc. This is also my work as well, which as we know keeps us tied at the desk as we try to keep up on new technology.
Anyway, what I'm getting at here, by using my own life example, is we are who we are by our genes, interests, and exposure to things in life. As we "grow up", and I put that in quotes because I feel we never grow up, but only mature in various ways instead, our interests jell together in one form or another to form our personalities.
So, David, you're not a nerd, geek, or whatever. You are yourself, and should/will always be a self-starter and thinker. Don't let others persuade you to be otherwise. Thinking critically instead of with the pack will get you further along in life than you think. It's the outside-thinkers that became our best leaders and inventors; not the sheep who go along with the popular opinions and ideas.
John
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