[LMB] Re: OT: link of the day - Nerdiness

[Mark Allums]

The key is exercise.  I suspect that people who Linux on a reqular basis 
are able to maintain their nerdiness at a high level over time.

--Mark Allums


Tracy MacShane wrote:
> On Tue, September 12, 2006 8:33 am, M Traber wrote:
>> Mark Allums wrote:
>>> Apparently, nerdity degeades over time,
>>> if you don't keep it exercised.
>>>
>>> --Mark Allums
>> You mean <shudder> we might become *gasp* normal?
>>
>> but i HATE Survivor, lost, american idol and oprah ...
>>
>> what would we *talk* about ...
>>
>> scurries away clutching her linux discs close.....
> 
> Hahah! *waving Ubuntu disks in reply*
> 
> I hardly think we need nerdiness/geekitude to maintain our abnormal cred.
> 
> I'm very low on the nerd quotient, and only somewhat higher with the geek
> quotient (which I interpret as nerds with social skills and wider,
> although still focussed, interests).
> 
> Despite my paucity in those respects, I wouldn't exactly put myself into
> the "normal" camp. Heh. Far from it. :-)
>