[G4ME]

So, that copy of Direct Connect came out today, well i know this really hot, i mean hot, lifeguard/prom queen chick on cmapus that has an imac, the downside (well not really) is that she is compleatly dumb founded by computers she has no clue whats going on, she was happy that AIM and IE work and cares about nothing else. So i offered my assistance with installing DC by telling her what to do, but yet again she had no clue what was happing.

So, i offered to walk over and help her out, i live just accross the way. So, over i go and start installing DC, but I need OS X 10.2 and i then have to treck back to my room and grab it. the treck back, in the bitter cold, so there i am installing OS X on her iMac she is just hanging out with her roomate, who is also not that bad looking they are all in their sleeping cloaths, which consited of very little, i mean really short shorts and a tank top I was enjoying my self. Then her boyfriend comes in (who just happens to be a QB for UMaine) with another friend and I find out that he is going to be hanging out for the night, ho hum. OS X is taking forever to load, its an 800Mhz.

So there i am sitting infront of and LCD waiting for the progress bar to slid its way through, all the while she is clinging to her boyfriend and chating about sorority stuff, i mean i had fun hanging out with them it was just awkward as hell, the only reason i was there was to fix her computer and she was hanging off of her boy friend. She was very greatful and everything went smothly she is now grabing songs, movies, at blazing fast speeds, but i just feel so Geeky.

"So, you want me to come over and fix your computer?"

Not to mention that i am taking 10 min out of my life to post this stupid crap on Macnn. That just tops it off.

[Nonsuch]

All you have to do now is make her a mix tape, and you'll be Geek Supreme.

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by G4ME:
Not to mention that i am taking 10 min out of my life to post this stupid crap on Macnn. That just tops it off.

ROFL.

Sorority chick? Eh. You can do better.

[cheerios]

we still love you, G4

[Meneldil]

I thought you wanted us to post our geekiest moments, but you'll all probably find this amusing, so I'll tell it anyway. Freshman year, I was reading the NNB (Noon News Bulletin- a little folded paper that's basically for classified ads at Carleton) The was a little blurb in the 'General' section that said something along the lines of "Please no PDAs in the Libe and Sayles" (student center). I though about it for awhile, then asked one of my friends "what the hell do they have against Palm Pilots?" He just looked at me, read the ad, and started laughing.

[nonhuman]

Originally posted by G4ME:
"So, you want me to come over and fix your computer?"

It works and you all know it!

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by Meneldil:
I thought you wanted us to post our geekiest moments, but you'll all probably find this amusing, so I'll tell it anyway. Freshman year, I was reading the NNB (Noon News Bulletin- a little folded paper that's basically for classified ads at Carleton) The was a little blurb in the 'General' section that said something along the lines of "Please no PDAs in the Libe and Sayles" (student center). I though about it for awhile, then asked one of my friends "what the hell do they have against Palm Pilots?" He just looked at me, read the ad, and started laughing.

I don't get it. What else does PDA stand for?

[Socially Awkward Solo]

You can come over and install OSX when I am in my knickers if you like

[nonhuman]

Public Displays of Affection

[G4ME]

juan go ask Cheerios,

She was definatly soroity type, she wants to become a teacher because she thinks small kids are so cute and would love to teache them.

also go a head and post your most Geekiest incodent.

[cheerios]

LOL, I just told him, when I saw "ask cheerios". "OOOOOoooh, like I would know what it means!" oye.

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by nonhuman:
Public Displays of Affection

awwww.....

what a stupid acronym

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by juanvaldes:




awwww.....

what a stupid acronym

I was staring blankly too... I've never heard that acronym used.

[rampant]

Yeah, but I bet you don't call fog in real life "Volumetric Lighting". :x

[G4ME]

Originally posted by cheerios:
LOL, I just told him, when I saw "ask cheerios". "OOOOOoooh, like I would know what it means!" oye.

I though that you were "Worldly" Enough

[Demonhood]

did anyone else thing this story was going to end "with sexy results"?

nah, me neither

i used to overhear girls discussing their sexual exploits as i was fixing their machines (it was my job. fixing the computer, that is. not exploiting anyone). kind of awkward.

but hey G4ME, that isn't all that geeky. you have plenty of years to do geekier and geekier things until you're so embarrassed by your actions that not even that guy dressed as Gollum standing in line for Return of the King will talk to you for fear of catching your geekiness.

[G4ME]

Originally posted by Demonhood:
did anyone else thing this story was going to end "with sexy results"?

nah, me neither

i used to overhear girls discussing their sexual exploits as i was fixing their machines (it was my job. fixing the computer, that is. not exploiting anyone). kind of awkward.

but hey G4ME, that isn't all that geeky. you have plenty of years to do geekier and geekier things until you're so embarrassed by your actions that not even that guy dressed as Golem standing in line for Return of the King will talk to you for fear of catching your geekiness.

ouch that hurt, well i knew that that was going to be the case. Just shoot me if i ever have to wait in line more the 20 min for a movie, and everyone around me dosn't look normal.

[Demonhood]

Originally posted by G4ME:
ouch that hurt, well i knew that that was going to be the case. Just shoot me if i ever have to wait in line more the 20 min for a movie, and everyone around me dosn't look normal.

don't worry man, i was joking. and i'm probably a bigger dork/geek/nerd than you are. i've waited overnight for tickets to movies. i've participated in LAN parties. i've played D&D. i'm an admin on a macintosh message board (i get a lot of weird "um..ok then" looks for that one). i own anime and hong kong action films. i watch them with subtitles.

see, now don't you feel better about yourself?

[nonhuman]

Originally posted by Demonhood:


don't worry man, i was joking. and i'm probably a bigger dork/geek/nerd than you are. i've waited overnight for tickets to movies. i've participated in LAN parties. i've played D&D. i'm an admin on a macintosh message board (i get a lot of weird "um..ok then" looks for that one). i own anime and hong kong action films. i watch them with subtitles.

see, now don't you feel better about yourself?

Hmm, I haven't played D&D, but I've created characters for it and played other RPGs, and I'm not an admin on a mac message board, but I am a SysAdmin for over 100 Linux/Windows machines. Other than those two, i've got everything you do. So which of us is geekier?

[Nimisys]

heh, my cousin got me some tickets to star wars EPI opening night at a large theater mall complex for the 1201 am showing, got there at nine, his sister had been there since 3pm. surprising it was one of the better public parties i have been to. you had constant food and stuff being thrown around, everypne was cool, not many of thye really wierd guys ( like the the guy who camped out there in costume for 2 weeks) but a lot of normal people who went for the fun of it. tv crews kept coming buy and inciting the crowd ( 6 lines for sperate showings all in one plaza area), it was a lot of fun. best yet the next morning i went to school, here people talk about how they wanted to go, but i had already gone. if a nother movie comes out that lends itself to that enviroment i would go again in a heartbeat. did the same thing for EPII, but it just wasn;t as fun the seoncd time around.

[sek929]

Theres some chick I, ummm, "met" with a few times that has an iMac, I installed Office v.X on her machine and got her the OSX version of AIM (she was running it in classic (!).

The nerdiest part of it was when I signed on my SN to talk to Juan for some serials since the ones I had weren't working. She asked what I was doing and I frankly replied "Talking to my Mac nerd friends so I can get this damn thing working..."

She laughed. I didn't even try to get her to use DC, she certainly would never figure it out, not very computer savvy.

[ringo]

Heh, not so bad.

Now if you had installed a back door to her OSX installation so you could remotely log into her machine later and go through her home directory, that would be really geeky.

[nonhuman]

Originally posted by ringo:
Heh, not so bad.

Now if you had installed a back door to her OSX installation so you could remotely log into her machine later and go through her home directory, that would be really geeky.

It wouldn't be very hard either... You just use her account to create yourself an admin account, and all of a sudden you're on the sudoers list. Then you can just log in remotely with your account and do whatever you want.

[Phanguye]

or even better you could have thrown a shiney object to the other side of the room and while they were mesmerized ("ohhh shiney") you could have made of with the iMac.... that is what i would have done atleast

[bewebste]

"Ha! Look at this one! He looks like some kind of super-nerd, like he was built in a laboratory out of parts from lesser nerds."

- Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, insulting Star Wars nerds in line for Episode II

[valeriam01]

or you could do a funky mix of dork and not-dork....hehehe. I belong to a society (cause Wellesley doesn't have sororities...) but here I am, math nerd and all. and i love the lotr. and i would totally stand in line all night, I just don't have to b/c i have finals that week. =) (I guess I'd be geekier if I skipped finals for them...but no, I want to pass my major classes). And this was the moment when i most realized my geekiness: I got to the RadioShack near wellesley, spent way too much money and built all sorts of **** with the LCDs and crap. sigh. Still, I'm not the admin of a mac forum.

[imaxxedout]

Originally posted by G4ME:
So, that copy of Direct Connect came out today, well i know this really hot, i mean hot, lifeguard/prom queen chick on cmapus that has an imac, the downside (well not really) is that she is compleatly dumb founded by computers she has no clue whats going on, she was happy that AIM and IE work and cares about nothing else. So i offered my assistance with installing DC by telling her what to do, but yet again she had no clue what was happing.

I feel so good about myself after reading this.

- $

[denim]

Originally posted by G4ME:
Not to mention that i am taking 10 min out of my life to post this stupid crap on Macnn. That just tops it off.

You were used for techs.

[cheerios]

Originally posted by nonhuman:


Hmm, I haven't played D&D, but I've created characters for it and played other RPGs, and I'm not an admin on a mac message board, but I am a SysAdmin for over 100 Linux/Windows machines. Other than those two, i've got everything you do. So which of us is geekier?

Me. I'm female, and admit to being associated w/ y'all. that leaves me with a WAY higher geek-score than either of you two.

[mitchell_pgh]

How to become a "hacker"

Step One:
"Hey, I need your admin password to install this..."

Step Two:
Enable FTP

[Millennium]

Computer-geek wise, I'd have to say my geekiest moment was the time I disinfected my nVIR-infested Mac Plus using nothing but an ancient copy of ResEdit.

But my geekiest moment in terms of general geekitude had to have been an incident at Otakon 2000. I was there, hanging out with my girlfriend (now my fiancee) and a bunch of her friends from Bryn Mawr.

Now, the way they tell the story, there was a girl there dressed up as a Pikachu hunter. Her costume consisted of a kickass glaive, three strategically-placed Pikachu heads, and not much else.

I wouldn't know this. Because the only thing I saw was the glaive she was carrying. And it really was incredibly kickass And so, as we pass in the hall, I turn around and call out "NICE GLAIVE!"

I'm told that her expression started out as something along the lines of "What the hell; are you blind?" and then melted into some kind of gratitude. But I'll never know, because I'm just oblivious to stuff like that, I guess. My girlfriend and her friends were greatly amused by this.

[G4ME]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
How to become a "hacker"

Step One:
"Hey, I need your admin password to install this..."

Step Two:
Enable FTP

um i needed to grab her admin PW to install 10.2 she barely rembered it. so next time i am over there its only a few clicks away, but why would i do that, i am just to nice to go around messing with her system like that.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Sorry but that story sounded like a bad porn script.

"Nerds sexiest moments"

[ThisGuy]

G4ME,
Can you please set up a webcam in her room and send me the link?
Thank You,
ThisGuy

[G4ME]

Originally posted by ThisGuy:
G4ME,
Can you please set up a webcam in her room and send me the link?
Thank You,
ThisGuy

oh we could make millions or you could just try this one

don't think shes on often. and it only seems to work in IE

[imaxxedout]

Wow. That is most lamest of you.

- Ca$h

[G4ME]

wow its nice to see you agin ca$h, man you almost made it a half a month, keep trying you know, baby steps, you'll eventually get there.

[BlackGriffen]

Originally posted by Millennium:
Computer-geek wise, I'd have to say my geekiest moment was the time I disinfected my nVIR-infested Mac Plus using nothing but an ancient copy of ResEdit.

That's nothing. I had a performa 637-CD that I was playing around with a few viruses on (for no good reason), and I accidentally double clicked on one of the infected files. I then proceeded to hunt down and remove the virus with Resedit.

But my geekiest moment in terms of general geekitude had to have been an incident at Otakon 2000. I was there, hanging out with my girlfriend (now my fiancee) and a bunch of her friends from Bryn Mawr.

Now, the way they tell the story, there was a girl there dressed up as a Pikachu hunter. Her costume consisted of a kickass glaive, three strategically-placed Pikachu heads, and not much else.

I wouldn't know this. Because the only thing I saw was the glaive she was carrying. And it really was incredibly kickass And so, as we pass in the hall, I turn around and call out "NICE GLAIVE!"

I'm told that her expression started out as something along the lines of "What the hell; are you blind?" and then melted into some kind of gratitude. But I'll never know, because I'm just oblivious to stuff like that, I guess. My girlfriend and her friends were greatly amused by this.

Sadly, I have that one beat, too . On Monday night, I was walking back to the dorms with a friend from a physics club meeting. So, yes, you can probably already tell that she is a geek in her own way, too. The conversation meandered on to the derivatives of sinh and cosh (don't ask), and I happened to mention that they were like eigen functions of the derivative operator (eigen functions of the second derivative operator, actually). She tried to change the subject, and I said something to the effect of, "What, don't you find it interesting that exponentials are the eigen functions of derivative operators?" She then chided me for not noticing her attempt to steer the conversation away from the subject, and commented, "I swear, I get in to the most boring conversations with you." This coming from a female physics major, and self admitted dweeb, who also says that she is attracted to dorky guys.

I guess the uber-dork was just too much for her .

BlackGriffen

P.S. For some reason my mind goes to the conversation between Vash and Wolfwood when they were sitting outside the bus in Trigun episode 9. Extra geek points if you understand the reference .

Edit: fixed day of week.

[Avon]

Originally posted by Cipher13:


ROFL.

Sorority chick? Eh. You can do better.

I call them....

Sorostitutes.

[00101001]

Originally posted by sek929:
Theres some chick I, ummm, "met" with a few times that has an iMac, I installed Office v.X on her machine and got her the OSX version of AIM (she was running it in classic (!).

i hear you ... i've got a girl a couple doors down from me in my dorm who was doing the same thing... she's like uber hot, and says hi to me all the time � but I'm too much of a geek to do anything about it...

honestly, what do you think are my chances of finding a girl who actually shares some of my interests � not all, like she doesn't have to be a mac genius � but some... any of you guys find any girls like that? (and you girls, where are you all hiding??? )

[Thrax]

Originally posted by Millennium:
Now, the way they tell the story, there was a girl there dressed up as a Pikachu hunter. Her costume consisted of a kickass glaive, three strategically-placed Pikachu heads, and not much else.

You can't get much geekier than those people who dress up as their favorite characters from books/television/movies/comic books/video games/anime/manga/J-pop. Those people are nerds even to other nerds.

Except for the ones who act in character when dressed up like that.

As for me, my geeky qualities are pretty mild. I used to have a job as a Web designer. Several times, while in college, I managed to get appointed IT manager of the dorm or class. I have an unhealthy habit of collecting, but not necessarily playing, video games. And I have a love for extremely goofy humor, even if it's aimed at children.

[D'Espice]

Originally posted by G4ME:
So, that copy of Direct Connect came out today, well i know this really hot, i mean hot, lifeguard/prom queen chick on cmapus that has an imac, the downside (well not really) is that she is compleatly dumb founded by computers she has no clue whats going on, she was happy that AIM and IE work and cares about nothing else. So i offered my assistance with installing DC by telling her what to do, but yet again she had no clue what was happing.

So, i offered to walk over and help her out, i live just accross the way. So, over i go and start installing DC, but I need OS X 10.2 and i then have to treck back to my room and grab it. the treck back, in the bitter cold, so there i am installing OS X on her iMac she is just hanging out with her roomate, who is also not that bad looking they are all in their sleeping cloaths, which consited of very little, i mean really short shorts and a tank top I was enjoying my self. Then her boyfriend comes in (who just happens to be a QB for UMaine) with another friend and I find out that he is going to be hanging out for the night, ho hum. OS X is taking forever to load, its an 800Mhz.

So there i am sitting infront of and LCD waiting for the progress bar to slid its way through, all the while she is clinging to her boyfriend and chating about sorority stuff, i mean i had fun hanging out with them it was just awkward as hell, the only reason i was there was to fix her computer and she was hanging off of her boy friend. She was very greatful and everything went smothly she is now grabing songs, movies, at blazing fast speeds, but i just feel so Geeky.

"So, you want me to come over and fix your computer?"

Not to mention that i am taking 10 min out of my life to post this stupid crap on Macnn. That just tops it off.

Oh boy, that is geeky... but don't worry, it could have gone worse. After all, her b/f didn't make fun of you, did he?

Plus, I know people who are worse so don't worry. We have tons of �ber-geeks at university here in Germany, you would certainly look very normal standing next to them.

[Face Ache]

Originally posted by BlackGriffen:
On Monday night, I was walking back to the dorms with a friend from a physics club meeting. So, yes, you can probably already tell that she is a geek in her own way, too. The conversation meandered on to the derivatives of sinh and cosh (don't ask), and I happened to mention that they were like eigen functions of the derivative operator (eigen functions of the second derivative operator, actually). She tried to change the subject, and I said something to the effect of, "What, don't you find it interesting that exponentials are the eigen functions of derivative operators?" She then chided me for not noticing her attempt to steer the conversation away from the subject, and commented, "I swear, I get in to the most boring conversations with you." This coming from a female physics major, and self admitted dweeb, who also says that she is attracted to dorky guys.

I guess the uber-dork was just too much for her .

BlackGriffen

P.S. For some reason my mind goes to the conversation between Vash and Wolfwood when they were sitting outside the bus in Trigun episode 9. Extra geek points if you understand the reference .

Wow! My Geek-O-Meter just shot off the scale and bent the needle!

[Face Ache]

Originally posted by 00101001:
honestly, what do you think are my chances of finding a girl who actually shares some of my interests...?

Porn, macs, beer, porn, anime, porn?

Shouldn't be too hard.

[valeriam01]

Originally posted by Face Ache:

Wow! My Geek-O-Meter just shot off the scale and bent the needle!

Don't laugh...I remember this happening to me...I love math, no problem talking about it...but computer codes and algorithms? ugh. Not my topic of choice...which of course, was what an ex of mine used to try to interest me in all the time....fun every once in awhile...not all the time.

[lothar56]

Originally posted by G4ME:
...but I need OS X 10.2 and i then have to treck back to my room and grab it. the treck back, in the bitter cold, so there i am installing OS X on her iMac she is just hanging out with her roomate...

So you pirated 10.2 just to impress a hot chick who already has a b/f??

[G4ME]

Originally posted by D'Espice:

Oh boy, that is geeky... but don't worry, it could have gone worse. After all, her b/f didn't make fun of you, did he?

Nope he just gave me a strange look

Originally posted by lothar56:


So you pirated 10.2 just to impress a hot chick who already has a b/f??

ummmm she really wanted DC and it was late at night, so yeah, i feel so dirty

[Hinson]

Sort of related--at least it's a geeky moment...

I happened past a computer tech show the other day--you know, one of those geeky shows about the "latest" in the world of computers. Anyway, to my credit, I didn't watch long. I did, however, notice that one of the people on the show was a woman wearing a t-shirt that simply said <geek> on the front. It took me all of 2 seconds to realize what MUST be on the back of that shirt. It MUST, of course, say </geek>, right! The front of the t-shirt was the start of a geek, and it must end at the back.

But she never did turn around to confirm my conclusion. Still, I just KNOW that had to be on the back of her shirt! The geek in me has faith in that fact, though I'll never know for sure.

Just making such a connection with a t-shirt made me feel geeky all over!


-Jay

[denim]

I would have thought the </geek> would have been on her butt, actually. And where on her t-shirt, pray tell, was <geek> printed?

[shawnjoyce]

You so copied this off my thread at AppleInsider.