Topical Tuesday: Are You a Nerd, Geek or Dork?
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I always feel quite proud whenever I'm called a geek/nerd/dork/something similar; shows that I'm gettin' mah smarts on, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. That being said, even though I'm a nerd in the sense that I tend to get the top grades in my classes, I'm not the typical 'geek' in that I could hack into the FBI's computer system, or orgasm over maths, and such; but what I do love is literature and art, and I consider myself a total, full-blown geek in those areas.
Not even just art in the traditional, painting or drawing sense, but books, films, video games, theatre, music, fashion design, photography, architecture, nearly anything that creates beauty and emotion. I'd even stretch that definition to 'technical' subject areas that could be considered 'an' art, like science (something that, coincidentally, I'm also passionate about, so that's kinda nerdy too). I just love it all, but literature especially, and that's what I'm known for most amongst my friends: I'm nicknamed the walking dictionary. Suck it, Wiki.
Geek Credentials of the Day: Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla and Oscar Wilde are my idols.
Not even just art in the traditional, painting or drawing sense, but books, films, video games, theatre, music, fashion design, photography, architecture, nearly anything that creates beauty and emotion. I'd even stretch that definition to 'technical' subject areas that could be considered 'an' art, like science (something that, coincidentally, I'm also passionate about, so that's kinda nerdy too). I just love it all, but literature especially, and that's what I'm known for most amongst my friends: I'm nicknamed the walking dictionary. Suck it, Wiki.
Geek Credentials of the Day: Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla and Oscar Wilde are my idols.
Geek to the Core, man! Generally, though, I call myself a nerd. My personal distinction between the two is that geeks tend to be techies, and nerds are everything else. I'm part geek, then, but mostly nerd.
... I would call dork an insult, though. A dork is just... a dork. *shrug*
Reasons I'm a nerd: I'm HERE, talking about this!
I'm a big gamer, to the point that I write about them on my blog, and my podcast. I'm the catalyst for the D&D group we're starting, and I'm the "smart kid" EVERYWHERE. I don't particularly care about fashion. I read all the time, fantasy and sci-fi, and I watch movies all the time, but mostly the nerdy/action ones. (No romance here!)
P.S: The catchphrase for my blog, which I thought of a few weeks ago: Because being a nerd is AWESOME! (A friend even offered to design a t-shirt for it)
P.P.S I love this week's quiz... so awesome! Oh, and I don't suppose there's a list of all the possible badges for the quizzes? Because I would really like to see that...
... I would call dork an insult, though. A dork is just... a dork. *shrug*
Reasons I'm a nerd: I'm HERE, talking about this!
I'm a big gamer, to the point that I write about them on my blog, and my podcast. I'm the catalyst for the D&D group we're starting, and I'm the "smart kid" EVERYWHERE. I don't particularly care about fashion. I read all the time, fantasy and sci-fi, and I watch movies all the time, but mostly the nerdy/action ones. (No romance here!)
P.S: The catchphrase for my blog, which I thought of a few weeks ago: Because being a nerd is AWESOME! (A friend even offered to design a t-shirt for it
)P.P.S I love this week's quiz... so awesome! Oh, and I don't suppose there's a list of all the possible badges for the quizzes? Because I would really like to see that...
Gaming/Japanophile nerd.
Big gamer. Big anime/manga fan. 私は日本語を勉強します。(I'm studying Japanese). So yeah that kind of nerd.
Big gamer. Big anime/manga fan. 私は日本語を勉強します。(I'm studying Japanese). So yeah that kind of nerd.
Ah good ol' xkcd. You have an opinion on everything. Given this diagram, I find it very difficult to place myself in either camp. I'm definitely one of the "nerdy" crowd. But I do "geeky" things, such as run AD&D campaigns.
I think I would classify myself as a nerd for the following reasons:
1. I subscribe to multiple research pubs just for funsies. I like to take copious amounts of notes on interesting papers.
2. I currently own 1 Humboldt squid beak, 1 eye lens and several of the teeth that line the insides of the squid's suckers. I am also saving money to purchase a cast of an Architeuthis dux (giant squid) beak.
3. I've participated in Nanowrimo for 4 years, and every story I've written so far has been set in a high-fantasy setting. (would this be nerdy? Or geeky? I don't know!)
4. I have a bucket list of museums, zoos and aquariums that I want to visit.
5. I'm obsessed with the Tudor dynasty.
1. I subscribe to multiple research pubs just for funsies. I like to take copious amounts of notes on interesting papers.
2. I currently own 1 Humboldt squid beak, 1 eye lens and several of the teeth that line the insides of the squid's suckers. I am also saving money to purchase a cast of an Architeuthis dux (giant squid) beak.
3. I've participated in Nanowrimo for 4 years, and every story I've written so far has been set in a high-fantasy setting. (would this be nerdy? Or geeky? I don't know!)
4. I have a bucket list of museums, zoos and aquariums that I want to visit.
5. I'm obsessed with the Tudor dynasty.
Me and my friends discussed this when we were classifying ourselves. We ended up naming ourselves geeks.
Geek for us is the guy who is good at school, who has hobbies that usually involve the internet or video games but take these seriously and actually discuss about them and love them. They also have a pseudo normal social life, going out of the house and such but not without their group of friends. We are the successful people in the whole outcast groups of teen society.
Nerd for us is a geek who fails at being what a geek is. He just goes with it, but actually knows not what he is taking part in. It's the kind of dude usually portrayed by Napoleon Dynamite or other famous nerds; they aren't very good at what they do, and just go with the flow.
Dork we haven't defined.
Geek for us is the guy who is good at school, who has hobbies that usually involve the internet or video games but take these seriously and actually discuss about them and love them. They also have a pseudo normal social life, going out of the house and such but not without their group of friends. We are the successful people in the whole outcast groups of teen society.
Nerd for us is a geek who fails at being what a geek is. He just goes with it, but actually knows not what he is taking part in. It's the kind of dude usually portrayed by Napoleon Dynamite or other famous nerds; they aren't very good at what they do, and just go with the flow.
Dork we haven't defined.