July 24, 2009
Talk nerdy to me.
I was talking with a coworker today and it occurred to me that I am a nerd. Not just a little bit nerdy. A serious hard-kore nerd… I started thinking about my “accomplishments” and thought I would go ahead and put together a list. If you know me and can think of something I have left off… please feel free to let me know.
- Degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics
- Previously employed as a CSR for a web-filtering company
- Previously employed by the University of Utah’s Computer Science department
- Previously employed by a card/comic/board game store
- Currently employed as a Software Engineer
- Currently employed as a live theater stage and light technician
- Currently have more working computers than people in my house
- Currently have the same number of operating systems as people on said computers (two flavors of Linux, Windows XP, Mac OS X… I know that Linux is Linux… but …
- More than one flavor of Linux on computers in my house
- Own more Magic the Gathering cards than can fit in a 5000 card box
- Own a closet full of Dungeons & Dragons miniatures
- Three full shelves of role playing books
- Own books for more than three role playing systems
- A shelf dedicated to comics (not to mention the boxes in our closet)
- I run a D&D campaign every other week or so, and play in another one every week
- Have played role playing games in at least six (maybe more) role playing systems
- Have attended multiple gamer conventions
- Worked at a booth in multiple gamer conventions
- Have more non-six sided dice than can fit in a quart sized mason jar
- Met my wife in marching band…
- …While playing D&D during a trip to a football game
- Own my own domain
- Used Firefox before it was called Firefox (Firebird anyone?)
- Used IRC to download mp3s
- Helped start a website whose user-base numbers in the thousands
- …Did I mention it was a fan-site for an internet cartoon
That seems like a pretty good start for now. I might have to update this when I think of more things.
Understand the hierarchy of the band world in that you think brass are superior to woodwinds and trumpets are the best instrument in the band. Percussionist are quirky.
Attended–and enjoyed–many a band camp.
Have taught your daughter that dice are called twenties.
Prefer PC to Mac. While having a computer preference is geeky in itself, you don’t buy into the Mac-user belief that Mac is superior to PC.
Didn’t just memorize the math/science/physics/computer science stuff for the tests in school. Actually understand/enjoy/value/use that stuff in your real life.
Is it ultimate geek to let your mom post comments on your blog?
Just cause you social skills doesn’t make up for everything else.
It was Mozilla… and I downloaded the source code the first day it was available… to compile it on an Ultrix machine :)
@Chris Sorta… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox#History
Sure, it was based on Mozilla (and probably stole… errr… obtained most of its base source code on it). But Firebird/fox was designed to be separate from the start.