I...I'm becoming a geek. Dud told me a while back that if I wanted to get into programming I should start with Python. I didn't get very into it, and I started it again last night. I am into this now, and I'm (dare I say?) enjoying all the "Write, test, correct, test, correct, test, pump fist in air triumphantly" that I get to do.

There isn't much better than spending 15 minutes trying to figure out how to have an incorrect password message displayed, going and talking with someone about something COMPLETELY different, and then have the solution hit you like a bolt of lightning. "Ah-ha! Another while command would do the trick!"

I'm even contemplating bringing my random junk notebook with me to every class now so I can write down "On the spot ideas" or write code during study hall.

Post when you finally recognized you were turning into/were a geek.



Oh, and Dj-Yoshi convinced me to build my next computer, so I am truly getting into computers.

I think it was when these three hot girls came to my door and invited me to a party, but I declined because I was troubleshooting a new installation of XP. True story. Of course I knew I was a geek long before that happened, but it's really a defining point in my geekiness.

Woohoo! Go nerds!

I, fortunately, am not at that level of geekiness yet.





Seriously kyle, what the heck were you thinking?

Hey, I had to get that install working, and it wasn't detecting the hard drive. It was a real mess, but eventually I figured it out.

I did wander down to the party about two hours later after everything was straightened out, but it had apparently dispersed by then.

Though I agree, once you build your own computer and start installing software...you'll know what he means.

I've managed to keep my geekiness to a very low level around people. At home, though, I spend 12+ hours a day on the computer.

Hey, I have a legitimate excuse! All my friends live an hour away and the computer is the only thing to do in the house, as I've read so many books that I get bored of them!

I love being a geek. I've earned so much of a rep at school that people I barley know are asking me about computer things. Just today some kid I don't know too well comes up to me and asks me, "AMD or Intel?"

I then go on to explaining why AMD is better right now in terms of gaming and generally lower temps. I just kept going. I get giddy when I learn something new about technology, such as putting Linux on an Ipod. (Only reason I would ever buy one) I scare myself.

better plan:

Go to party. Leave 2-3 hours later. Fix computer. Sleep for roughly 20 minutes before having to get up for work/school.

This is what we call "Closet Geek"

Since Day 1

Let's see...the exact moment... well, there are a lot of defining moments...
I was once playing JK (the Barons Hed RPG), and some guy was talking about how we could improve the game.
"We need... women!" he eventually said.
"We're playing a multiplayer mod for a Star Wars game that was old 6 years ago. I think we definitely need women," was my response.

-One of my definers.

Programming sucks (although Python is a good language).

I think Zloc, that when you try your first Gentoo stage 1 installation, you will refrain from anything remotely related to computers for a year.


I think I realized my transformation was complete when I was up late one night doing above mentioned linux installation on a spare computer.

Gentoo Stage 1 really isn't that bad if you know anything about computers.

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Gentoo Stage 1 really isn't that bad if you know anything about computers.[/QUOTE]

Oh not, it's a piece of cake once you know what you're doing.

It's just that when people just dive head first into it without knowing what they're doing, I'm sure we've all heard the horror stories. :p

You want linux horror stories? I'll give you linux horror stories.

I took a programming class last semester. It was Python. I failed it. Miserably. I couldn't get a gorram thing straight in there.

[nelson]Haha![/nelson]

I guess on a nerd society I would belong to the lowest class, but that doesn't matter much :p

However, I guess I "turned" into one after programming like a madman for HyperCard when just 7-9 years old. Too bad that programming didn't turn out useful for the future.

I turned nerd around 13 yrs old, I guess, when I started writing games like Sorry! and UNO for BASIC.

Now don't get cocky, kid.

the day i was sitting in front of the tv and i was reading my new begining php book as if i were reading a novel. about 4 years ago.

It happened when I was 15. I can still remember it as clear as day. I had an epiphany, "holy ****, Im a nerd!". It was great, like a badge of honor or something.


I just wish I had better luck with women.

You just need to show them how much of a big;) nerd you have erm are.

When I started dreaming in COG.

I'll still protest i'm not, i guess i'm like Sarn, i'm a bit of a closet one.

I zoned out in my favorite class to try and figure out how I could use an user-defined variable to determine how many numbers this thing would print out, and I'm about to go try it.

Although, as of current, I guess I am kind of a closet nerd.

I drew fan-fic TMNT comics when I was 4, and learnt the basics of English day-to-day language (I'm Russian) playing Fallout somewhere in 1997. But probably the real turning point was the first game I ever played from beginning to very end, some tri-colored ninja game (everything was red, green, and black), where you destroy some nuclear missile and then race out the compound on a motorcycle.

If anyone knows what I'm talking about, it'd be cool if you remind me how it was called.

Another noticeable childhood experience was the 1990's Crime Wave, which I've played beginning to end a number of times.

A tear rolled down my face when I read that...

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi]Though I agree, once you build your own computer and start installing software...you'll know what he means.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. Time stands still. Everything must be tweaked until perfect, and only then does your new PC release you.

Learning C++ by myself. Heh.

I don't know enough about computers to be a true nerd, but I'm definitely a complete dork and everyone knows it - it's why they all love me :p

Though if we're talking in terms of chorus/music geek....ooooh boy yes.

So 3 notes walk into a bar, C, E Flat, and G. The bartender looks at them and says "you're going to have to leave, we don't serve minors"

[QUOTE=Dj Yoshi][nelson]Haha![/nelson][/QUOTE]
*shrug*
Never much cared for programming anyway, it was an elective.


That uhm.... that didn't happen to me. I built it in an evening, then installed the OS after dinner, the required drivers, the stuff I needed to get online, and let everything else sit until the next day. I had a very vanilla computer that night.

I feel so much better now knowing I'm not a complete geek.

Don't really know, but I inform people that I'm a geek if I had no good reason for doing something. It works.

And like Sugarless, I don't know anything about computers.

same thing here

It's not something I like to admit.

I guess I'm more of the closet variety. And now that I think about it, I can't remember ever becoming a geek/nerd/whatever. My dad gave me a Turbo Pascal book when I was seven - so does that count as 'from the beginning'?

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And as for the whole women thing: get a backbone! All it takes is a little confidence in yourself. Walk up to a girl you like and ask her out. If anything is going to happen, it will.

When I started writing fan fiction, I knew I was far gone.

-Now, it's too late to save me. Escape while you still can.

Wow... Just.. wow.

*cough Two musical scales are walking on an icy sidewalk. The first slips and almost falls. The second looks over and says, "You'd better C sharp, or you'll B flat."

...

My nerdiness is changing. I enjoy programming (Java, C#) and playing PC FPS's, and I didn't care for sports in the past. Now, I am getting more and more into football (playing and watching) and weight lifting/fitness. I usually spend no more than an hour a day on a computer, but it's risen to like 3 hrs./day during vacation. I don't know. When I'm alone, I'm a nerd. When I'm not alone, I'm a smart, social, fun person.

Ive done that before. It scared the crap out of me.


Ive also dreamed of JED and JK levels, but thats a different issue..