Humor, PureNerdism

You Know You’re a Nerd When…

by Sarah

 

Happy 10.10.10, otherwise known as, Nerd Day!

 

No, sorry wannabees, owning an iphone does not make you a nerd. Watching tech podcasts- nope. Playing with the Commodore 64, built your first media pc in the early nineties- well now you’re talking!

 

★ You spend your weekend writing code.

★ Paper is your enemy. You prefer the PC-version of Post-It notes.

★ You played with DOS as a child.

★ You’ve met ninety percent of your friends from World of WarCraft.

★ You’ve never bought a pc, you buy parts and build them yourself.

★ You have heated arguments over the better OS.

★ You have at least 3 pc: a desktop, a laptop, a netbook.

★ You know non-nerds buy Apple computers, real nerds run a Hackintosh.

★ You rarely see sunlight, but LCD light is mother’s milk.

★ Cooking means microwaving so that you can run back to you PC.

★ You wish all commerce was done through Cybercash (we’re not just talking paypal).

★ You run Linux.

★ You tell your doctor you have an lcd addiction. The only time you don’t look at one is when you’re asleep.

★ You knew the Syfy channel when it was spelled correctly as the Sci-fi channel.

★ You’re shocked when people pay monthly for tivo and cable dvrs. Don’t they know you can build a media center pc for cheaper!

★ You believe Shareware and bloatware is the devil.

★ Last movie you saw and was in avi or quicktime.

★ You run a dual boot pc with multiple OS.

★ The first thing you turn on in the morning is your pc.

★ Your pc is your phone, your tv, and your best friend that has a name. (Love you, Hal!)

★ You delete cookies, you don’t eat them.

★ You run a server in your home.

★ You can carry on conversations in C++

★ Your hobbies are: convert English into binary, hexadecimal, and octal and ASCII

★ You worked for Microsoft, IBM, Google, Apple, Cisco as a developer at one point or another.

★ You know non-nerds buy Apple computers, real nerds run a Hackintosh.