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(...) Guess I'm a geek, then -- by virtue of the fact that I'm married? In fact, if it weren't for the arrival of my son (turned five last week), I wouldn't have gotten sucked back in to the world of Lego. You two seem to be split over the issue of (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) A geek *may* have social skills, a nerd does not. Looking around at clutter on desk...at least I'm not a nerd. :-) Bruce (though I feel constrained to point out that I have seen many computer-geeks that are tidy) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I've thought of the difference between geeks and nerds to be that geeks usually are in the computer industry, and often untidy; nerds may work in a more academic or scientific field and are rather tidy. :-) --Ryan (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) A geek? Moi? I guess. Exactly what distinguishes a geek from an "ordinary" nerd? :^) My occupation? Pretty geeky, yep. Research biologist. Presently a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, studying molecules of the immune system. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm a geek, and proud of it. I'm a technical support engineer for very high speed cut sheet printers. I need a good knowledge of Unix/Solaris, TCP/IP, Windows, Macintosh, Novell, PostScript and PCL. I'm finding Perl and shell programming (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dunno about Pat, but I had to do that...kinda, sorta. The product existed, but none of the commands were set, so I had to make 'em up as I went along in one 24 hour straight orgy of writing. It went on to be a best-selling computer game. :-) (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ummmmm, errrrrr, Field Analyst (fancy way of saying computer geek) at a World Famous Research Center (Geek Central). It gets worse. Fanatic game player (Super-Geek). Former computer game designer (World-class Geek). Artist (Whew! Saved!). (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Aeronautical engineer. Worked once as a rocket scientist (literally..:-) nor working as an manufacturing engineer (...) Not that much (...) Of course yes. Has all the novels and at least 15 reference books and all four of the movies. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah just you wait 'til they open up new TLDs; if it's done right, .foo will be one of the first to go. (And then .bar, of course....) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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