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Offline udet

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« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2003, 12:40:45 PM »
Aww...and kids made fun of you, right Animal. We other geeks feel for you buddy...

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« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2003, 12:52:56 PM »
you blew it Animal..
all these pics of you flying, diving, out with girls, etc...
then you go blow it by admitting that ?!?!?!


well.. heh.. I have to give you credit for having 'nads ;)

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« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2003, 12:58:40 PM »
wlfgng...that was back in his "Clark Kent" years.  He has since graduated to full time Superman...as evidenced by that hottie from Halloween.
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« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2003, 01:35:23 PM »
Wlfgng -
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no no no no no no yes
you sound like that bloke in "The Vicar of Dibley". Never mind, you wouldn't understand - British comedy TV programme!

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« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2003, 01:35:58 PM »
lol..
I have to admit that the Halloween hottie made me think twice.. but then he posted that pic of the geek-watch on his wrist........
and admitted he wore it all through school ;)

hehe.. well at least he's a 'proud' geek

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« Reply #20 on: January 03, 2003, 01:45:18 PM »
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...Have ever built a computer at home? Have you grown up with a C64/Amiga and look back with nostalgia at the 8bit days? ...


Yes

No, I had VIC-20 :D Unfortunetly :D / About nostalgia, YES, I've löooked back and saw ...  ... ... :eek:

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« Reply #21 on: January 03, 2003, 03:02:40 PM »
Yes (Not especially RPG's)
No
Yes
Yes
Yes and No.
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No
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« Reply #22 on: January 03, 2003, 03:08:54 PM »
beetle, why waste words ?  :)

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« Reply #23 on: January 03, 2003, 03:25:06 PM »
Do you play games other than flight sims(Especially RPGs)?
Yes, but no RPGs

Do you collect old hardware?
Boxs of junk, motherboards, old cases, hard drives etc

Do you have a server in your house?
Not yet, but I do have 3 pc's networked

Have ever built a computer at home?
5 of them since 92

Have you grown up with a C64/Amiga and look back with nostalgia at the 8bit days?
I had an Atari 1800?  Console job that plugged into the TV and ran Basic with a cartridge, $200 at JC Penny's in 1984.  Spent 40 minutes typing in the basic code to draw a picture of the flag in 2 secs on the TV, never seen so many GOTOs in my life since.
Two years later got married and graduated to 286's and Apple IIc.


Do you own a Pocket Computer from the 80s?
No
Do you even know what I'm talking about?
Yes

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« Reply #24 on: January 03, 2003, 03:43:18 PM »
yes across the board.

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« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2003, 05:13:54 PM »
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lol..
I have to admit that the Halloween hottie made me think twice.. but then he posted that pic of the geek-watch on his wrist........
and admitted he wore it all through school ;)

hehe.. well at least he's a 'proud' geek


I have always been proud of my geekness, never denied it, because I knew since I was a kid that they are the ones who end with the money :)

There is a difference between being a nerd and a geek. In this day, nerds are ruthlessly picked on in school, while geeks are begining to become even cooler than jocks in the popularity food chain.
Last time I walked by a high school the latest targets seem to be Nerds and Goths.

Not so during my school years, up to about 8th grade I was one of the targets, then I became good with martial arts, my confidence sky rocketed, I began going out with girls (not so good looking ones at first), doing and effort to look good, and I became really good at playing mind games with the stereotypical bullies who later ended up reformed and now own PC's and video games are suddenly the cool thing.

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« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2003, 05:18:51 PM »
nice.  actually I was gonna' post (at one point) that maybe it was kinda like being named SUE...
you'd be forced to defend yourself and blah blah blah..


but I think you're prolly right.  geeks have the money!!!
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and the 'bullies' prolly are old and fat now

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« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2003, 05:36:22 PM »
Just cobbled togther an xp 1600 with 512 pc2100, a 6 gig 33mhzDMA and a geforce 2 Ti. I put it next to my p3 -700 that plays only one game. Two other rigs are linked for Cable. We eat our meals on the desks the comps sit on. ...Does that count?

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« Reply #28 on: January 03, 2003, 06:22:21 PM »
once a geek-always a geek :D

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« Reply #29 on: January 04, 2003, 07:36:50 AM »
No, not a geek.

I dinnae stand salivating over my brothers Vic20.

Nor did I find immense pleasure by making sinus scrolling text using Assembler on the Amiga 500.

I didn't make games for my pocket calculator (TI-82) later in life either.

I never watch sci fi programs, and couldn't dream about reading my way through a 10 book fantasy series in less than a week.

I don't type three times faster than those around me either. Nor have I ever spent $800 on IRC using a 33.6 modem at the most expensive time to use the phone.

I never participate in online technical discussions or anything the like. And I hate computer games.

Me, I'm a real blue collar man who only likes boobs and cars. Yeah, that's it.