Got my Geek Chip today

[DrewKaree]

It did make it mighty easy to get the band chicks, though.  I could speak without grunting and wasn't a pasty white clarinet player.   

I caught crap from the other 'jocks' for dating band chicks, one guy in particular... indeed, he was really dumb, though, as my response to "you're the one who has to settle for band chicks" was always "one of those was your sister".

.....and this one time, at band camp....

[psik0tik]

I like being a geek...we know more. While a person making fun of geeks is straining to figure out a toaster shaped like an egg from target. We build our own arcade machines.

[DarkKobold]

Hey, I was a band chick!



errrrr, except for the chick part.   

[DrewKaree]

Hey, I was a band chick!



errrrr, except for the chick part.   

Someone stick a tuba on his head, I'll run him off to the  station.

[DarkKobold]

Damn you Drew Karee, I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling arcade control builders!

[shmokes]

Hey, I was a band chick!

So did you and ChadTower ever....you know.....love one another?  He was into the band chicks, you know.

[tommy]

Hey, I was a band chick!

So did you and ChadTower ever....you know.....love one another?

[DrewKaree]

Well, if shmokes is right and they DID.....you know......then really the point is moot.  They already HAVE!

[ChadTower]

You guys arent going to just take that i hope.    lmao 

He's not my type.  I didn't say I was doing the fugly band chicks.

[Dartful Dodger]

NERD isn't just a 4-letter word, it's a 7-figure income!

[shmokes]

Even now, nerd doesn't mean anything like a 7 figure income.  Computer programmers, for the most part, make about $40-$50,000 per year which isn't very much considering how specialized they are --how much information they have to know and continue learning forever.  Every time a new platform comes out it's back to the books else you'll become obsolete with the equipment you're working on. 

Add to that the crappy working conditions -- sitting in a $50 rolling office chair in a cubicle farm, stairing at a screen for 8 hours a day coding while shoving doritos and mountain dew in your pasty tummy, all the while worrying that when the project is finished and the cycle of layoffs starts up again you will be the next to go, and you've got yourself a recipe for going postal.  Based on the difficulty of learning to program and the crappy work environment, programmers deserve to be compensated like doctors.  Problem is, there's no Programmer's equivelent to the American Medical Association or American Bar Association, such as what Docs and Lawyers have to keep the politicians in their pocket so they can maintain an artificially low supply.  The people making 7 figure incomes are not computer geeks, they are entrepreneurs who also know how to program.  It's business, not computer science that is making them rich.

[jbox]

Not to mention having to remember the coversheet for the TPS reports, having eight bosses breathing down your neck each day, and then they come along and replace all of the staplers with another brand that keeps jamming up. 

[HaRuMaN]

Not to mention having to remember the coversheet for the TPS reports, having eight bosses breathing down your neck each day, and then they come along and replace all of the staplers with another brand that keeps jamming up. 

Hehe... nice Office Space reference, lol.

[ChadTower]

Even now, nerd doesn't mean anything like a 7 figure income.

[DrewKaree]

Not to mention having to remember the coversheet for the TPS reports, having eight bosses breathing down your neck each day, and then they come along and replace all of the staplers with another brand that keeps jamming up. 

What coversheet?  Why don't you just go ahead and forward that memo to me again, mmkay?


So 7 figure and 5 figure incomes....add 'em up....carry the naught....cinch up my rope belt....average the denominator.....square root...6 figure incomes it is!

And I refuse to believe ChadTower is shoving Doritos and Dew in his cake-cruncher OR that he has a pasty tummy.  He seems like the spray-on tan kinda guy

[JoyMonkey]

Have a look at this story, it seems that nerds are becoming more socially accepted. Perhaps a nerd v geek war is brewing...

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/04/18/at_some_local_nightspots_nerds_rule

[ChadTower]

And I refuse to believe ChadTower is shoving Doritos and Dew in his cake-cruncher OR that he has a pasty tummy.