Survey posted 2003-08-21 17:36 by Henrik.

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I have... I'm the surprised and frightened, angry geek diving to save my calculator from the prick who was trying to dip the top end of my 89 in a cup of pizza sauce (caught on camera, that's right)... I also carry it around with me, so I'm in many more with it.

Very interesting.... I can't say that's ever happened to me. (Or my calc.) Let's keep the calc away from geeks who like to dip them in pizza sauce, okay? ;)

actually, it was a nerd trying to dip it in the sauce, not a geek...

What did you wanted to say by the sentence "Cameras do not capture me".

I suppose it is something like "I dont let me take in pictures by cameras".
Do I am right?

I am sorry for my english, if I made mistake or if my question don't make any sense.

yeah, it just means you are not in any pictures

or you could be a vampire or something that doesn't appear in pics. Who knows, we're calc nerds! Excuse me, geeks

Hey! I don't bite heads off of live chickens! I don't know about you but I'm a nerd, not a geek.

oh, that kind of geek... i'm the other kind. I would be a nerd, but i'm not that antisocial yet (world domination!).

/me pictures that last part in an Invader Zim style voice

*remembers previous nerd/geek conversation*

Okay, no offense or anything, but I think that nerd and geek can be used interchangeably. After all, the dictionary gives definitions that might as well be equal word-for-word.

what? what dictionary are you reading? rhw says geek is eccentric and nerd is antisocial. big difference

In common usage it doesn't matter.

Uh... dictionary.com is where I checked. Another dictionary said the same thing. Although, that part about biting off the heads of chickens in a circus is pretty weird.

well, that's just an alternate meaning for geek...

That usage is rather antiquated... Let's see.. Mid 19th century/early 20th.. (or for those of you who get centuries mixed up, 1800's to 1900's)

And nerd came from Dr. Suess (sp), I think

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I gues I should have used <sarcasm> marks in a part of that. Though I have to say it was pretty obvious. It must be your lack of sleep again...

LOL! Yeah, probably. Hahahahaha... I'm always so out of it.

Here guys; let me handle this one.

For Viklas:
Hi?
Prehaps! I'm've was to playing football three times. As a wery old, I shaven the yak that behooved me. It wasn't Came's. He borrowed mine.

In happy,

Stark Dolig

(that's not quite right, but close enough)

That sounds similar to a homestarrunner SB e-mail...

i love that site!! thanks for reminding me about it too, cause i haven't visited it in quite a while. must.. go.. look.. NOW!!

Hey... it's Wednesday... I missed it's last update (Monday) I'll go check too. Oh what the crap- my sister is asleep... turning on the volume would wake her up. Grrr

I resent that! It was a dork!

nope... a nerd. he wasn't dumb (it was the end-of-the-year party for my hon. chemistry class)

Dumb to try to pull that off on a calc freak, we shall become a sample case in the next generation's psychology texts

oh yeah... okay, he was... well, okay, i guess he was just dumb. nobody liked him either... hmm... okay, maybe, he was a ...nork?

and to conclude, for any who worried about the current state of the 89 in that pic, my mad dive to save it was successful, and the result was a shoe and a notebook (both not mine) covered in sauce

Upload that to a P2P file sharing network, and you could be famous ;-)
LOL
But that would be so amazing to see. I would send it to AFV or something! LOL

sadly it wasn't my camera, and the person was only going to sell me the pic for a price too high, so it's not in my possesion, and i know not at this point if it is still even in a state good enough to view

Was it a video camera or just a still-shot camera?

Also, asking for a price for that is really dumb LOL getting an extra print from the negatives cost a few cents.

still shot

but it's still a priceless picture, as I'm actally diving, in mid-air, to save my precious piece of electronic fun-box goodness.

LOL... I still think he should give you a copy. That sounds great!

Mine is in my pocket 80% of the time that I'm outside of the house (and something like 30% of the time that I'm in it). Some days I have 2 calcs, my TI-89 on my left and my HP 49G on the right (it's easier for me to reach my left side because I have long arms).

yeah, mine is, like, my pda pretty much, as well as my little gaming system, and my calculator, so i have my calc almost everywhere i go

Me too-I carry them everywhere with me-86 in one pocket and 83+ in another-I'm going to have problems if I get another calc.

you serously carry your calcs in your pocket with you? i do that in skool but not out of skool to me that sounds a little nerdy

hmm... well, it seems you must be lost. let me help you. you are officially in NERDSVILLE! population: lots of nerdy calc-freaks...

LOL! I think he is lost. Notice the name of the site... ti"CALC".org
Plus, we all like to be nerdy. And your calc is your friend. Why not take it everywhere? Some people take their PDA's everywhere. Some people take their wallet everywhere... And I think a calc in your pocket looks better than chains on your belt buckles.

D

DON'T DISS CHAINS

I carry my calc (83+) everywhere and wear chains at the same time

You wanna fight?

<gets out TI-89 and multiplayer version of shootout>

Oh... you don't have a TI-89.... never mind.

As for me, I just keep my TI-89 in a belt pack I wear virtually all the time.

Now, if someone has his/her calc attached by a chain, that might look cool and make the calc easier to unholster as an added bonus. Of course there's the issue of the cover and other technicalities I'd rather not discuss, but it sounds possible.

Well... you could have a clip on the back of your calc that can snap on to the chain, then just put the case on and hope it doesn't fall off :)

hey, then no one (no one, not no_one) could steal your calc unless they either ripped it off the chain or ripped the chain off

LOL Yeah. No touching MY calc!

*sniff* My poor TI-89...