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'Green Eggs and Ham?'
My User Interface Design group had a... uh... meeting last night (a meeting which consisted of drinks, dinner, Outburst, Taboo and poker) and got to talking about how nerdy everyone at SI is. They disagree.
They don't consider themselves nerds because they don't think they're smart enough or work hard enough. And yet, despite their love for the Lord of the Rings and younger propensities for Magic: The Gathering (you know who you are), they don't consider themselves geeks. Dorks didn't seem to appeal to them either.
How difficult are they? Just accept one name and embrace it, because you are it, folks, and only getting worse! You can't hide! SI will bring you down!
srah - Friday, 10 October 2003 - 7:17 AM
Tags: nerds, school of information
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CommanderFalafel - October 10, 2003 - 8:25 PM - ℓ
I always interpreted the geek-dork-nerd relationship differently. Geeks are the people interested in the cool things that the rest of society aren't really into. Nerds are wicked smart people with poor social skills (like Stephen Hawking), and dorks are average-intelligence people with poor social skills. So... one could be a totally popular geek. Or a nerd that doesn't like geeky things. Or a geeky dork, who likes things like Star Wars, but isn't particularly good at things.
Anyways, that's just what I've always thought...
Personally, I'd say geeks were smarter than nerds, who in turn are smarter than dorks. Dorks are just clever people with no social skills. Nerds are the same, but *really smart* people with no social skills. Geeks are those who know their stuff so well they don't *need* social skills... :)