Nerd or Non-Nerd?

Nerd or Non-Nerd?

  • Yes ... definitely!

    Votes: 78 35.3%

  • Definitely not!

    Votes: 17 7.7%

  • A little bit nerdy ... but in a nice way!

    Votes: 102 46.2%

  • I don't understand the question?

    Votes: 24 10.9%
  • Total voters
    221
Keith

Keith

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Sorry but Dave's thread 'Herd or Non-Herd' is way too deep for me ... lets just keep it simple.

Are you a photography nerd?

Do you bore people with your obsession ... to the point where their eyes are starting to roll back in their heads but you don't notice and continue to tell them about the comparative dynamic range of film and digital!

I think I can be a bit of nerd occasionally where photography is concerned and often find myself wishing I wasn't. My son is heavily into those little tenth scale Nitro powered remote control cars and currently eats sleeps and breathes them. I dropped him off at one of his club events and couldn't help but notice that all of the hundred or so people that were there were pretty nerdy ... some extremely so!
 
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I stopped talking about any photographic matter to anyone years ago. I shoot alone and don't belong to any group. RFF is the only forum I post in. That's why I'm such a nerd here.

Cheers,

Juan
 
Well, toss-up between Geek and Nerd.

But no Geek option, so I went with the closest thing.

I did nto use a pocket protector. I did hang a TI SR-56 programmable calculator from my belt in 1976. It got me through Calculus. If you could write a program during the exam to solve the problem, the teacher accepted the program and the answer for credit. Taught you how to code really fast.
 
Brian, I'm fairly certain you're beyond both titles by now. We should label you as an 'Expert.' Gear-Head is too..... rough.

As for me, I'm a glutton. I'll try anything if it makes photography possible.
 
Sure, no one wants to know how we got the term "Hacker" in the early 70's. That one I know. Someone that makes furniture using a sledge hammer. I knew a programmer that wrote a code to make a disk drive walk across the room. They were big, like small refrigerators. He made the heads seek (move) back and forth so quickly it rocked the disk drive to it started moving across the floor.

I think Nerd came before Geek. We were Nerds. Some of us wore contact lenses.
 
Both definitions are practically the same... Derogative for intelligent, odd, shy, unattractive, having poor social life and being fascinated with technology... Yet I'm lost...

Cheers,

Juan
 
This thread has gone straight to twenty posts in an hour which says something I guess ... and not one vote for 'Definitely not!'

At least we're safe in each other's company ... maybe this means we're 'herd nerds!"

:D
 
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