- You have a meet-up, and everyone brings out their laptop, and everyone is running on a different OS
- You wait in the car, and get bored, so you get out your laptop to have a quick browse on the Internet.
- You don’t mind working with many screens
- If you’re wondering what that book is, it’s Tyler Cowen’s Discover Your Inner Economist
. This is the book, closed up
And oh, I walked back into my old college two days ago, and Carmen and James said: “Hey, look! Professor X! You’re back from Australia!?” That says that I’m a geek/nerd more than anything else. Really. Compliment? Dunno.
I haven’t read Tyler’s book yet. I just bought it last night. I couldn’t find this book anywhere else in Australia (well, I found it in A&R, but I am boycotting Angus and Robertson for their ridiculously high prices when compared to Borders and Dymocks). On second thoughts, I should really be revising my econometrics methods, not reading pop econs books. XD. Really… my grades are depending on me revising my stats methods. Argh. Bloody math.
Post Scripts
P.s., Speaking of economics, I love a perceptive mind. Which was what I found in Elanor last night. She gave me the most insightful solutions to my problems. 
Ahhh.. its an intellectual orgasm.
P.p.s., Here is a list of recommended reading that was recommended to me in the past week, and I’m recommending them to you now:
- Information Rules
- Innovation and Incentives
- Connections
- Microtrends
- Mind of the Market
Naturally, these books are bleeding expensive (and I’ve spent more money on books than I budgeted already this month), so if anyone wants to buy them for me… you know what to do - my Amazon wishlist is here, LOL.
P.p.p.s., Shyuing, I was in college looking for you XD. Found Jung instead. He has an interesting girlfriend. And to the rest of my readers, no, his first name is not Carl.
P.p.p.p.s., For those who are curious about our geekiness level - wkKay is running on Ubuntu, cfgt is on a PowerBook running Mac OS X Leopard, Zybler’s on XP. And me? I’m the least geeky of all - Vista.
P.p.p.p.p.s., cfgt was looking at Suzumiya Haruhi’s H-doujin in the car. (Hahiru FTW)
Cool?
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How do i know if i’m a nerd?
You probably are.
For someone who follows Yudkhowsky so closely, you probably are.
Yudkowsky’s idols disappoint him. Yudkowsky disappoints me. I dont follow Yudkowsky. Except with this. But then i’m already like that. It’s an independent trait.
Ask yourself this: How do you know if its independent, and not a trait that is dependent on Yudkhowsky’s behaviours? I mean, you practically mirror his thoughts and methods anyways
because i was like that prior to meeting him?
and cue soundtrack from The Twilight Zone….
Seriously though, take a step back and relax, dude.
Some more clues if you’re a geek:
1) You suddenly jump off your bed half-way in your dream and shout Eureka (You just realize what’s the bug that bugs you for hours)!
2) Your opening and closing curly braces keys on your keyboard are faded.
3) You read some whitepapers and think that you come up with better ideas or implementations (and you actually did).
4) When faced with a certain topic you feel like you could talk about it whole day.
There’s probably more but I’m lazy
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1 - did that last night after the chat with El.
2 - Nope. I use Python now, C is… too low level, LOL. Indented code-block FTW! (no, actually, I feel more at home with braces. I feel naked without having to do {}, but what the heck, Python is pseudocode that works)
3 - I thought I did. I’ve learnt that coming up with a better implementation takes time.
4 - Hmm… like discussing the meaning of life with..you. Heh, Deep Thought is easy - his answer is 42
Would you be so kind as to enlighten me as to what part of the Hare Hare Yukai album cover looks like Haruhi doujin?
1. You have no knowledge of fashion, or rather, no knowledge of anything else other than computers
2. You don’t realize red shirt don’t match blue jeans
3. You get winded after walking for three feet
4. You type more than you talk. At least 100 times more
5. You thought sex refers to gender and making love refers to the intimate relationship between your dominant hand and your sexual organ
6. You don’t have a girlfriend
let’s up the standards: You use a weighted feature list to capture the concept and category ‘geek’. (Because quite obviously, some geeks have girlfriends (or boyfriends! you sexist! (or homophobe)) some dont masturbate, some have good aesthetic taste, etc. etc.) But that would be more nerdy than geeky…
trying so hard to define wat a geek is… definitely a geek
cfgt:
Because we love Haruhi doujin.
Soggie:
1 - there’s no need to. Geeks are comfortable in what they are, and there is no need to conform.
2 - We all know redshirts die in the first few minutes of an episode
3 - Heh… I walk a lot! Does that declassify me as a geek?
4- Ja. We all do that.
5 - Gross generalization.
6 - Also gross generalization.
Zcer:
Rather geeky of you to actually realize the list is weighted
XXXX:
Agreed.
Red shirt does match blue jeans anyway LOL! I thought you would say yellow. Hmmm. You didn’t call me. I was in library, tidor.
Heh, I was too caught up talking to Carmen and James. I think she lost her wings. Can’t see it XD.
Are you serious? Man she didn’t talk to me, we just nodded as greeting.
Yea. I’m pretty sure she lost her wings. LOL.
I’ve had maths and electronic formulas buzzing around in my head while i sleep, while i eat, while i take a shit, all WEEK!
Does that make me a geek?
And yeah, 80% of my time is spent interacting online and not in real life.
Btw, which is wkkay?
Pretty much a geek you are too Aoshi
But which is wkkay!!!????
Cameraman?
Actually, red doesn’t match blue jeans. Wait, does that make me a nerd?