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Raptorgirl Super Geek  
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posted March 22, 2002 14:55
  
We've discussed the hierarchy (dork, nerd, geek) before. How can you tell if you've passed from one rung to another? IP: Logged |
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xobender Alpha Geek Posts: 266 |
posted March 22, 2002 18:42
Ummm , don't have that answer. Never have really been a person to label myself and others into neat little catagories. Sometimes i might think i would make a neat little nerd or geek but then again , maybe i would be all wrong. I do have some wierd tendecies like spending my money and time on my mac powercube and ibook instead of getting a car ( bikes are better anyways ) or a cool life of some sorts, well i do hve one i geuss it's just that it's on a slow down turn right now ( no woman no love ) . I just got a nice little external LaCie 60gig HD for my cube, with os 9.2.2 backed up on it and it even has a faster drive than my cube which makes it feel a little faster , and now i am sitting down to getting os 10.1.4 installed on my cube to see how it all runs. Then after that i'll sit and watch Lexx and maybe go dancing or have a beer with a friend.. hmmm then come home and play some Urbnan Terror and Rogue Spear, that game itimidates me to the max. IP: Logged |
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donnab Geek
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posted March 22, 2002 19:11
I have no eye deer. But today at work a civil engineer called me a genius when I told him how to get his AutoCAD running again. I told him to reboot... duh. I've told engineers how to get their Acrobat Reader working again when they were running version 3... Show them how to insert or delete a table in Word, geez.... What I'm trying to say is that it all depends on the observer's perspective. To someone who knows more about math & physics than I ever want to know, yet can't do his job because his puter isn't cooperating, I appear to him to be some kind of a computer guru when I give him simple solutions to his impasse. I'm just a secretary, but they all come looking for me or calling me on the phone all the time for simple little puter problems. Go figure... When they call the IT, he either reinstalls Windows, or the app that's acting up, which can take him hours. So first they call me and usually get a simple answer in 10 seconds, and get back to work. I guess I'd rather be a genius than a geek.... although I am neither. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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FatGnome Geek
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posted March 28, 2002 00:14
Nerd...Geek well hrmmm that is a difficult question indeed. Well to me Nerds tend to be the ones to ooze their ideas onto everyone around them while the Geek is one who can keep his/her ideas in unless they are asked for or needed. Geeks don't force themselves on others as a general rule because they don't have anything to prove while Nerds are usualy making a statement by being whatever their statement is. Computer Geeks don't always have to talk about computers or their computer exploits but Computer Nerds usualy that is all they talk about. IP: Logged |
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LifetimeTrekker Alpha Geek Posts: 334 |
posted March 28, 2002 05:46
Nerd has primarily been an external label, or a label others apply to one. Geek, at least in our usage, is label we use on ourselves. IP: Logged |
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EddieKatz Geek Apprentice 
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posted March 28, 2002 10:54
i never thought of it as a hierarchy that way. dorks were clueless, yet usually fairly nice (think anthony michael hall in "pretty in pink"). nerds were usually mean, probably from having been picked on so much. there was a mean kid i went to school with who picked his nose in front of everyone, and he was a nerd, though he wasn't particularly smart as far as i could tell. so maybe nerd was a step down on the food chain from dork. geek was always the smart kid, the one who sometimes had no social skills, but sometimes was really a pretty cood guy. or girl. don't want to be sexist here. it always seemed to me that there wasn't a whole lot of mobility here, but geek was definitely better than dork, and dork was most certainly better than nerd. IP: Logged |
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MacManKrisK Super Geek
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posted March 28, 2002 12:48
I have come to understand that there is no technical difference between the terms nerd and geek, inasmuch as their specific tehnical meanings (what an English teacher would look at). However, I have always figured there was a difference in connotation. Simply, "Geek" has a positive tone, it's a compliment, but "Nerd" is a negative tone, an insult. IP: Logged |
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Xanthine Highlie 
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posted March 28, 2002 18:00
Geeks get more respect. Or that's how it seemed in high school where these sorts of labels applied. They also tend to be more skilled at whatever it is they do. This could be the root of the respect. I'm not sure when I crossed the line. Maybe in high shcool when I helped debug a protocol in biotech class. Either that or first semester frosh bio when I started paying "who can catch the typo" with the prof. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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iballoondesign Alpha Geek Posts: 304 |
posted March 28, 2002 22:01
What is different about nerd and geek? My thought that nerd is gross and intellgience like Steven Uke...something from Family Matter. And geek is something like god-brain. IP: Logged |
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EngrBohn Highlie
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posted March 29, 2002 02:17
Well, here's a label that is suggested as being a lower order than "geek": http://www.ucomics.com/helen/viewtmhel.cfm?uc_fn=1&uc_full_date=20020328&uc_daction=N&uc_comic=tmhel ------------------ IP: Logged |
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xobender Alpha Geek Posts: 266 |
posted March 31, 2002 01:28
Is there a lower than lower order? How low can you go? In any case i am prolly around thee lowest..uggh. Ah well. neve been good with name anyway.. IP: Logged |
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