You know you've achieved nerdhood when...

[snowfire]

Noooooooo the "cut" drawer should be labeled "Ctrl + X" for cut!  Ctrl + C should contain carbon-copy paper!

Sigh...even if no one knows what it is any more.  I was chatting with a girl today and she had just submitted some school work electronically while she was in the waiting room at the physical therapists.  I mentioned that I had done all my schoolwork on an IBM Selectric typewriter and had hated having to make carbon copies of all papers for insurance in case of loss.  She looked at me kind of cross eyed and asked "What's a carbon???"

I guess I'm a dinosaur.  I graduated from college in '81.

[greencat]

Noooooooo the "cut" drawer should be labeled "Ctrl + X" for cut!  Ctrl + C should contain carbon-copy paper!

Sigh...even if no one knows what it is any more.  I was chatting with a girl today and she had just submitted some school work electronically while she was in the waiting room at the physical therapists.  I mentioned that I had done all my schoolwork on an IBM Selectric typewriter and had hated having to make carbon copies of all papers for insurance in case of loss.  She looked at me kind of cross eyed and asked "What's a carbon???"

I guess I'm a dinosaur.  I graduated from college in '81.

I was born after you graduated from college, so at least some of us spring chickens are familiar with the stuff   I've also actually used a mimeograph machine.

[kitty-cat]

Noooooooo the "cut" drawer should be labeled "Ctrl + X" for cut!  Ctrl + C should contain carbon-copy paper!

Sigh...even if no one knows what it is any more.  I was chatting with a girl today and she had just submitted some school work electronically while she was in the waiting room at the physical therapists.  I mentioned that I had done all my schoolwork on an IBM Selectric typewriter and had hated having to make carbon copies of all papers for insurance in case of loss.  She looked at me kind of cross eyed and asked "What's a carbon???"

I guess I'm a dinosaur.  I graduated from college in '81.

I was born after you graduated from college, so at least some of us spring chickens are familiar with the stuff   I've also actually used a mimeograph machine.

The baby of the board chiming in. We use typewriters at work daily. It's really fun to try and read the carbons when the fix error key has been used....

[Reader]

When after hearing Ridley Scott may have put the Alien movies, Blade Runner, and Prometheus in the same universe but all set at different times and you message your friend asking him to geek out with you to do a marathon of all the movies once Prometheus is out on DVD, so we can track the parallels and time frames.

[ladyknight1]

One of my dear friends is turning 50 next month. His wife is planning a surprise party and I offered to make his cake.

A Star Trek red shirt cake. Vanilla cake with maple filling, which is his favorite.

[wendelenn]

One of my dear friends is turning 50 next month. His wife is planning a surprise party and I offered to make his cake.

A Star Trek red shirt cake. Vanilla cake with maple filling, which is his favorite.

A cellular peptide cake!  (With mint frosting!)

[snowfire]

When after hearing Ridley Scott may have put the Alien movies, Blade Runner, and Prometheus in the same universe but all set at different times and you message your friend asking him to geek out with you to do a marathon of all the movies once Prometheus is out on DVD, so we can track the parallels and time frames.

DH and I went to see Prometheus last Sunday.  We were going to do Alien tonight but I fell asleep. Sigh, my physical therapy wipes me out.  I guess it will be this weekend before we get back to Alien.

[Shea]

BF and I were walking down the street last night when a big crowd of rather rowdy young guys goes past us.

BF: Wow, big group.
Me: They're having bro time.
BF: Pssh ::eyeroll::
Me: What? You and your friends have bro time.
BF: ::proudly:: Yes, but MY bro time involves 20-sided dice!

Yep, I'm dating a nerd .

[lady_disdain]

Yep, I'm dating a nerd .

Congratulations - they are the best.

[greencat]

I turn down a lot of Friday night dates because I'm playing D&D...

[White Dragon]

When you dream you're solving physics problems and relate your dream to your engineer spouse like this:

You: "So in my dream, there was a rotating disk with an inner circumference and the outer edge. I had to find the difference in force and speed between the two points."

Engineer: "You mean the torque?"

You: "Yes, but I had to try to do the math in my head, since I was dreaming and there was no calculator I could use. So I'm trying to do 'pi r squared' in my head for this disk. Then I had to figure out the accelaration on the outer edge. I didn't know how to do that part."

Engineer "Torque = Force x Distance."

You: "Well, I didn't know that part. All I could remember was that Force = Mass x Acceleration."

Engineer: "Yeah. Torque = MAD."

Then he looks at you, his Arts major spouse and says "You've been married to an Engineer too long if you're starting to dream physics!"

[lady_disdain]

When you dream you're solving physics problems and relate your dream to your engineer spouse like this:

You: "So in my dream, there was a rotating disk with an inner circumference and the outer edge. I had to find the difference in force and speed between the two points."

Engineer: "You mean the torque?"

You: "Yes, but I had to try to do the math in my head, since I was dreaming and there was no calculator I could use. So I'm trying to do 'pi r squared' in my head for this disk. Then I had to figure out the accelaration on the outer edge. I didn't know how to do that part."

Engineer "Torque = Force x Distance."

You: "Well, I didn't know that part. All I could remember was that Force = Mass x Acceleration."

Engineer: "Yeah. Torque = MAD."

Then he looks at you, his Arts major spouse and says "You've been married to an Engineer too long if you're starting to dream physics!"

Benedick, my lawyer SO, sometimes asks me the strangest things out of the blue: "What was the fundamental trigonometric limit again?" "How do I prove that one infinite series is larger than another?

[hobish]

I sent a sarcastic text to Gish the other day along the lines of:
Captain's Log: Stardate - .3508728503. Cigarettes running low. Crew hungry and shedding. Away party not responding. Situation looking grim.
... and i looked up the stardate to make sure it was right. The ol' lug didn't even notice

[Slartibartfast]

Woot, just found out I'm on Wired!    (Okay, so I'm a "backup monkey" in the first embedded video in the article, but still!)  I'm pretty sure it's nerdy of me to be this excited about it 

[White Dragon]

When you learn that HMV just started carrying Big Bang Theory bobbleheads and you buy the whole set...