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We Are All Nerds Now
Anonymous Slob Nerd. writes "The Guardian has a good review of something close to all of our hearts. We are all nerds now discusses how the popularity of the internet, video gaming, comic-book movies (Spider-Man, Hulk), the sci-fi epics (The Matrix, Star Wars) and the wizard fantasy (Harry Potter), not to mention The Lord of the Rings has made nerds, and nerdish behaviour, cool."
If the "Nerd" moniker is now the baseline for the general populace then the True Nerds will have to come up with something to differentiate us from Them. Maybe it's time to go back to black glasses with tape, flood pants and pocket protectors. Perhaps a secret handshake too!
Trolling is a art,
What is the default level on the geek hierarchy that the new trendy nerds enter at?
Slashdot should change it's slogan to "News for Everyone. Stuff that matters." Then my non-nerd friends won't be confused when I talk about CowboyNeal.
I am officially gone from
Resistance is futile ..
And the nerds that will be looked down on are the ones who still like Star Trek.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
All of which raises some frightening implications. Could it be that there are more nerds today than there were before?
And then there is a further, more troubling possibility. Just what constitutes a nerd these days anyway?
We're geeks, dammit!
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
I somewhat fail to see what's so nerdish about Lord of the Rings. Sure,
alot of nerds have read the book. The books seems to have a cult status among nerds, though I really cannot find many nerds or why anyone would think of nerds while reading the books or watching the movies.
I've never worn glasses, or pocket protectors, and I think I'm as nerdy as you can get to an extent without being stereotypical. You on the other hand I believe are an nerd impostor who's probably never even seen the TV show "PI the final frontier" so I've reported you
MoFscker
Yeah, I'm a nerd, but you still have to grovel at my feet if you want your computer fixed or upgraded.
You have a problem with your DSL/Cable modem connection? Well, kiss my ass then.
You need to remove those pop-up adds? Kiss my ass then.
Yes, I am you overlord, so be happy about it.
...in one way or another. Most of the Slashdot crowd are computer/natural science/LOTR nerds whereas Germans, for example, might all be David Hasselhoff nerds. ;)
-- Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
> start by turning the computer off you fat ass lazy "nerds"
... HOW??
To avoid the easy charge of hypocricy, I realize you posted while you were outside, and your computer was off (presumably indoors.)
The real question is
"Old man yells at systemd"
Yeah but they get laid
DVD Ripping, Divx, VCD, SVCD under Linux
I always wanted to be a demographic! Yay!!
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Where the hell is my hot cheerleader girlfriend?? And where are the disgruntled upended jocks?!
;-)
Sheesh... you all can be "nerds"... I'm happy being "geek".
I-P (Its geordi laforge... as a smiley!)
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Great...now no one will get laid.
I joined the New Enterprise Regarding Destroying Sociability (NERDS) specifically to avoid the masses. Nerd stuff was sure to keep 99% of the population away. Now what? I don't want to join the cannibal cult, I'm not interested in trepanation. What do I do?
geeks are. Nerds are just geek wannabees. One is born into nerdness, but it takes an effort to become a geek.
Appraising the film's cast, he dismisses them as "preppy Ivy League nerds. Not real ordinary slob nerds like us".
Yup, "Booger" was definitely a Harvard man.Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
why then are most slashdot members still not getting any action...
:P
Speak for yourself, pizza-face.
What a dork.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
Honestly, how long did it take them to figure out being a nerd was cool? Even in popular culture...
The second that LOTR and Harry Potter were released to astonishing success, I knew it was real. Suddenly, i was the in crowd, Suddenly, All that knowledge that everyone deemed useless could get me a date. "Speak elvish to me again, Raleel...it makes me wet!"
Of course, I got married a while back, before it was cool, so now only one woman gets to listen to it, but still, she thinks its' cool, and she wouldn't ever read the books. It's spawned us watching all sorts of shows that I wouldn't have expected her to like, and brought out a new part of her personality. Hell, I might even do the dishes now...
-- Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him? --
While we might be consuming the same media, there are still some things that distinguish a true nerd:
1)Superiority complex
Don't worry, you're still smarter than everyone. You knew about Spider-Man back when it was a crappy 80's cartoon!
2)Poor hygiene
"I don't want to waste my time primping and preening," says the nerd. "It's societal bullshit!" You're like Rosa Parks, except the bus is the underwear you've been wearing for the last 3 days. Keep it up, faithful nerd...you shall overcome!
3)Passive aggressiveness
You'd rather take crap from your boss and call him a "PHB" on some internet message board than to straighten him out once and for all! Instead of suggesting your own methods of getting work done, you sulk and try to invent ways to sabotage his ideas.
4)Fanatical Collecting!
You can't relate to most people, but things...things are easy. Whether it's Battlefield Earth action figures or indie rock 12 inches, don't kid yourself-you're still a fucking nerd.
And the rest of us will be waiting patiently for you outside the boy's bathroom, ready to deal out the wedgies, score with the ladies, or become transparently evil characters in your 800-page self published web fanfic about Dracula meeting the Ninja Turtles. Rest easy, nerds. Your position in history is safe.
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
it's not really a secret and it's called 'masturbation'
you name one of your D&D characters after a character in the movie, or as a Dungeon Master you make a rule that nobody can name their characters after a LOTR character.
Onward to the Aether Sphere!
My favorite nerds were the pink and purple ones. Mmm nerds.
You know, I bought it until:
"you won't ever see me at a star trek convention with spock ears (or whatever his name is)."
Everyone knows who Spock is. You tried too hard, the veil has been pierced, I brand thee: NERD!
evil adrian
And none of these lines will cut it:
"hey, I'm running linux 2.6-pre8"
"wanna be the trinity to my neo?"
"I read on slashdot about..." (notice the sentence doesn't even finish before she's dumped your sorry ass!)
KARMA Attemts to Repress Meaningless Assholes
or something like that
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
now if only they'd make being fat and addicted to caffeine cool i'd be james dean!
Some broad examples of my taxonomy: Nerds get A's in AP classes. Dorks play D&D. Geeks set up LANs
all these year's I've been calling myself a geek, when now I finally realize I'm a dork. That's both scary and depressing. We'll at least all the money I spent on Magic cards wasn't in vain.
My Linux Command of the Day site : LCOD
It was always said that the geeks shall inherit the earth!!! Or did I hear it wrong?
You're still a big nerd if you like those things. And you're definitely not cool.
I've got it! I'll fool them all!
Okay, first I need to craft some codefiles of power. Some will be simple PHP scripts, others will be optimized assembler... I'll give 3 files to the wannabe geeks, browsing comics or rushing to see the latest LOTR film, pretending to see past the special effects and cool artwork to the underlying story. 5 for the plain-old geeks struggling to comprehend init levels. 6 script-bots for the gamer geeks in their basements of stone. 7 files for the alpha geeks with their x10 wired households. And 9... 9 files for the BOFH's, who above all else desire power over others.
But all of them will be deceived, for I will craft a master program that can exploit backdoors and security holes in all others, and into it I will pour my malice, my terribly-obfuscated C, my hatred for all geek posers.
insert fancy-yet-cheesy special effect here
Like an overused cliche my processes will spread across the internet, kill-9'ing those who would pretend to be a true geek. Th... ooo! New Ultimate Spiderman comic! *read* *read* *read*
What was I talking about?...
i think douglas coupland said something along these lines...
Q: whats the difference between a geek and a nerd?
A: The geek is employable.
I still can't get a date!!!!
We already have that something to differentiate Us from Them. It's called virginity.
Obligatory Onion link
catch (HumourFailureException e) { e.user.send("You, sir, are a humourless idiot."); }
I tell her to ask me about the origins of superheroes so I can go off on a long, rambling, tanget-laden story about the Flash(es), or Cyclops & Havok, or how Aquaman lost his hand, etc. It's a lot of fun, and it feels good to share. And my girlfriend is very amused.
She was amused because... she's thinking "Who the hell cares about Aquaman? He is the lamest superhero ever."
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Do we also get to bang the cheerleaders?
! the cheerleaders
ducks
To paraphrase Lester Bangs: No, I know you. You're not cool.