Robyn and I had a fairly long discussion last night over whether or not I’m a nerd. I think I’m a geek, but not a nerd. She thinks I’m a nerd. This post may well decide it. I give you the periodic table of video game characters. Which I think is clever. Nerd? Maybe.
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I’d vote geek, if it’s any help :P
I think I’ll have to vote for nerd. There’re a lot of very obscure characters there. But not complete socially exclded nerd.
Thanks to those who voted geek.
The best distinction I can think of between nerd and geek is that nerds wear button up shirts with pocket protectors – and geeks wear clever novelty shirts that people don’t get – like my Pi v square root of negative one “get real” v “be rational” shirt.
Alternatively – the tech support guys in the IT Crowd are an archetypal nerd and geek.