July 2010
1 post
June 2010
7 posts
Campfire stories →
You might be a geek if this is your kind of camp fire story.
Open source →
You might be a geek if you have ever cared about open source.
Geek vs. Nerd →
You might be a geek if you argue the distinction between geek and nerd
ASCII Star Wars
You might be a geek if you think this ASCII Star Wars movie is the bomb!
Open terminal and type:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
via @adactio
Software Engineering
You might be a geek if this quote about software engineering hits home with you.
Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyze so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.
- Dr. AR Dykes, British Institution of Structural Engineers,...
May 2010
20 posts
Tab Autocomplete
You might be a geek if you try to tab autocomplete in the URL bar of your browser.
- @segdeha
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nez/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
Space!
You might be a geek if you have ever gotten into a discussion with someone about spaces and indentation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seenful/ / CC BY 2.0
Passwords
You might be a geek if the password to your work computer is derived from a video game or comic book. Like ironm@nFTW1! - just saying.
- @shutupandcolor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohman/ / CC BY 2.0
CSV
You might be a geek if you have the .csv file extension set to open in Vim instead of Excel.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scragz/ / CC BY 2.0
2 tags
2 tags
Email
You might be a geek if you have ever sent an email from the wrong email address because you have soo many.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/esparta/ / CC BY 2.0
Gateway 2000
You might be a geek if you remember when Computer Shopper was 2 inches thick and Gateway computers used to be Gateway 2000.
- @shutupandcolor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jelles/ / CC BY 2.0
Laptops
You might be a geek if you carry more than one laptop around with you at all times
- @JeffBothel
You might be a geek if you think
PHP is the Visual Basic of the web
- @codinghorror
USB Aromatherapy
You might be a geek if you think your co-workers enjoy the lavender scent emanating from your computer’s Aromatherapy Oil Burner USB device.
- @shutupandcolor
MAC Address
You might might be a geek if you wrote a MAC address on your hand. If your name is Wade though, you’re just in a league of your own geekery. ; )
Inspiration: - @qwade
JavaScript Chores?
You might be a geek if you get really excited to write javascript and must force yourself to do your chores before you write it.
- @alexko28
IP Address
You might be a geek if: the number you just wrote on your hand is an IP address.
- @napoleonski
Font Collection
You might be a geek if you are proud of your “font” collection that numbers in the hundreds…
- @shutupandcolor
Native Objects
You might be a geek if
Programming languages that have built-in libraries to turn XML documents into native objects make [you] happy
- @snay2
SEO
You might be a geek if you have ever thought or heard something like this
Every time and culture have their shamans and magicians, we have #SEO consultants.
- @BryanWilliams
1 tag
IE assassination
You might be a geek if you just want IE to die! DIE! DIE! DIE!
Dear Internet Explorer: Stop wasting my time. I hate you. Drop dead.
- Chaunce
Image found at Webcultured.com
JavaScript Console
You might be a geek if it’s faster to write JavaScript in the console to add a bunch of numbers on a page than it is to manually add them up.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arenamontanus/ / CC BY 2.0
April 2010
8 posts
Wil Wheaton
You might be a geek if you think having something will make Wil Wheaton, @wilw, jealous of you.
Inspiration: lcarsreader.com BigBang reference
All your base
You might be a geek if you know All your base are belong to us!!!!
Nasa's SDO
You might be a geek if you think it’s really cool that “SDO will send 1.5 terabytes of data back to Earth each day”
Source: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light.html
Flash sucks ...
You might be a geek if you know “Flash sucks. CPU, that is.”
Origin: @segdeha
The Big Bang Theory
“You are the Internet Explorer to my Firefox!”
- heard on The Big Bang Theory
UNIXXKCD
You might be a geek if you really loved the April 1, 2010 UI change kxcd.com implemented for the day.
If you haven’t read the source code yet -> http://github.com/chromakode/xkcdfools
If you just want to try out some of the fun commands for the command line interface
make me a sandwich
make love
i read the source code
pwd
lpr
hello joshua
xyzzy
date
hello
who
xkcd
su
...
Counting like a geek
You might be a geek if you start counting from the number 0.
Seen at StackOverflow.com
March 2010
10 posts
Chrome Full-screen
You might be a geek and/or a lover of simple design if you sometimes run your browser in full screen mode. Preferably Chrome. : )
Linux: F-11 Mac: shift + cmd + F
Geek vs. Nerd
You might be a geek if you know the difference between geek and nerd.
http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2010/03/25/difference-between-nerd-dork-and-geek-explained-in-a-venn-diagram/
You Might be a geek if you get excited to write an English paper about open vs closed source. :-)
via @jessieamorris
Jumpcut
You might be a geek if you love Jumpcut. If you don’t, you’re doing it wrong!
http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/
WatchYou might be a geek if you recreate songs using iPhone instrument apps. Amazing!
Geek Schwag
You might be a geek if you wish you had money to spend on this awesome geek schwag.
http://www.meninos.us/
Suicide
You might be a geek if “rm -rf /” is just another word for suicide.
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
11 posts
Laundry Day
You might be a geek if you look forward to doing laundry at the laundromat because it will give you a chance to finally ready that Ruby on Rails book you have been dying to read.
Cat Code?
You might be a geek if you think you think like a cat while writing code -> DRYer is better.
