You may be a Geek if...

[C-pher]

Being that Ross started that Redneck thread, I thought that I would start one for us geeks. Being that just about everyone on here is in the IT field.

So, You may be a Geek if...

Every time that someone refers to this board as NES, you think of Nintendo.

 

[dwarven1]

So, You may be a Geek if...

you own more than one slide rule... and know how to use them.

 

[Skald]

If named any of your pets/kids after a sci-fi character.


When people go Wow you immediately think 'Cool, they play World of Warcraft too.'

 

[C-pher]

When you get excited because your new Star Trek Credit Card comes in...

If you know how to speak Kingon. (I don't, but it would be cool)

 

[Adam_MA]

You think it would be cool to know how to speak Klingon!

 

[Skald]

Heh, Bloom County and Oliver Wendal Holmes and the Hacker Tank.

 

[MidKnight]

I fall in under some of the previous posts... Here's mine:

You might be a geek if you know what 1337 means.

Oh, and there's only 10 type of people in the world, those that understand bianary and those who don't.

g3t5vm!

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Actually my little black and tan cocker is named after a character from one of Alan's science fiction fantasy books he reads. (Abrena) He didn't like any of the names I was coming up with so I told him to give me one of his books. Skimmed through and that name stuck ever since.

 

[dwarven1]

You might be a geek if you know what 1337 means.

Apparently I'm not as much of a geek as I thought I was... what does it mean?

 

[C-pher]

You think it would be cool to know how to speak Klingon!

Hello?!?!?!! Hence the geek thing.

...if you know what this molecule is: C8H10N4O2

 

[Admin]

pwn3d!

Ross,

1337 means leet or elite. It's a newer term. Hackers would sign hacked html pages and use other characters to sign them so you couldn't search the code and pick up that you have been compromised.

 

[MidKnight]

Derek....


PWN3D = OWNED!

Good call.

 

[dwarven1]

Uh-huh.

We may have to change this to "you might be an old geek if"... [lol] [lol]

Ross

 

[Nickle]

How about:

If you understand DOS 3.3.

Or, if you've ever used an IBM PS2 (esp Model 50 or 70).

 

[C-pher]

pwn3d!

owned!!


.....If you have a T1 in your house to you can better play Battlefield 1942, for Castle Wolfenstein on-line.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Don't feel bad Ross,I didn't know either. [lol]

 

[C-pher]

Man, how about if you take a call during a post and then don't go back to check if someone else posted already.

 

[C-pher]

For Derek...

I came across something some time ago that I thought was funny.


1f 40u (4n r34P th1$, th3n Y05'r3 4 g33k.

 

[Adam_MA]

HEY! I can read that!


Adam

 

[Admin]

pwn3d!

owned!!


.....If you have a T1 in your house to you can better play Battlefield 1942, for Castle Wolfenstein on-line.

have you played BF 2? i need a new pc to play it, but it is by far the best game ever! [twisted]

 

[MidKnight]

I owned BF, but I played MOH:AA for a long time and still think it is one of the best games ever created.

BTW, for the non-geek: MOH:AA = Metal of Honor: Allied Assault.

 

[C-pher]

hehe

I have all of those, MOH and BF 1942, as well as Castle Wolfenstein for my PC.

And, I have MOH for my PS2 and Xbox....both of which I have hooked up online.

Just have a A/B switch on my TV to change between the two.

And does it mean that I'm a geek becuase I'm beta testing SOCOM III for Playstation??

 

[MidKnight]

I played the original wolfenstein 3d on my 486. Later when the original doom was released it brought my 486 to it's knees. I was just a young buck then...

BTW, c-pher, how did you get hooked up with that beta - testing!!! Only thing I've ever beta tested was Revit Structural, CAD software from AutoDesk. Not nearly as much fun.

 

[Nickle]

I played the original wolfenstein 3d on my 486. Later when the original doom was released it brought my 486 to it's knees. I was just a young buck then....

Your 486 just needed a better processor and enough memory. It ran fine on my AMD 486/40 with 8 megs.

Oh, that must date me as an older geek.

You're really an old geek, if you know how to program in BASIC.

 

[Nickle]

And, you're a really, really ancient geek, if you have ever used a card punch machine, and figured it was state-of-art.

(Been there, spent a couple years Regular Army in a Data Processing unit.)

 

[Wildweasel]

You're an old geek when you had to load diags on the UYK-7 with paper tape.
(took 10 mins if it didn't fu) (heck you are a geek if you know what a UYK-7 is !) Sperry univac computer.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Everynight I had to do the punch cards in the Army,after I typed all of our messages to go out that night,and all the parts were accounted for and put away. Cause I always got the shipments left for me to do on swings.

 

[Nickle]

You're an old geek when you had to load diags on the UYK-7 with paper tape.
(took 10 mins if it didn't fu) (heck you are a geek if you know what a UYK-7 is !) Sperry univac computer.

Damn, we had an IBM 360/40. Mobile computer, housied in 2 special semi-trailers, not counting the library van and maintenance van.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

I know what them dern things are. [lol]

 

[MrsWildweasel]

They also would have made great boat anchors.