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Our hobby is considered Nerdy to outsiders... So if we are where do you draw the line on nerdiness?

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  • dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm a rocket scientist and my school's cheer song is: "I'm a beaver! You're a beaver! We're beavers all! And when we get together, we do the beaver call: e to the u du dx, e to the x dx. Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159. Integral, radical, mu dv. Slipstick, sliderule, MIT, Gooooooo Tech!"

    Nerdy? You bet. >>



    Rice University is the home of our Texan nerdy brainiacs. They had a cheer like that one:


    Cosine! Secant! Tangent! Sine! 3.14159!


    My favorite one was from back in the days (no longer with us) when the University of Texas would stomp Rice into stubble regularly in football. They'd proffer the following from the other side of the field to all the cheering Longhorns:


    That's alright! That's OK! You're gonna work for us some day!"
  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,260 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm a rocket scientist and my school's cheer song is: "I'm a beaver! You're a beaver! We're beavers all! And when we get together, we do the beaver call: e to the u du dx, e to the x dx. Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159. Integral, radical, mu dv. Slipstick, sliderule, MIT, Gooooooo Tech!"

    I like it.Only thing is I was somewhat disappointed not seeing e to the i pi in your cheer song.

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-Albert Einstein

  • BaronVonBaughBaronVonBaugh Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭✭
    I play Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and will play Fallout 4 when it is released.
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm a rocket scientist and my school's cheer song is: "I'm a beaver! You're a beaver! We're beavers all! And when we get together, we do the beaver call: e to the u du dx, e to the x dx. Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159. Integral, radical, mu dv. Slipstick, sliderule, MIT, Gooooooo Tech!"

    Nerdy? You bet. >>



    My condolences. I went to Caltech, and we didn't sing nerdy things like that. Of course, we didn't have NCAA teams to cheer for either.image
    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

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  • DavideoDavideo Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭✭
    I played Star Wars CCG for a while in high school, which is definitely the nerdiest thing I've done. I work with technology, but am not a gadget guy. I'm stereotypically nerdy on the edges, but for example am a decent athlete and played college sports.

    I guess I draw the line on nerdiness on one's ability to convey their interest in a way that doesn't turn off most people not involved in that particular activity. For example, telling someone you collect die states of a particular coin by showing minuscule differences between coins using a 10x loupe is probably going to make them think you are weird. If you instead briefly describe the minting process and show some big die cracks, I think you have a chance of keeping their interest.

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