Are YOU a Computer DORK!?!? (yes).
 

Well the more and more I find myself at the machine, the more odd characteristics I noticed about my ways that change even the most obvious tasks of my days.

A few thoughts/feelings of a computer dork I've noticed recently...


1) Can you "FEEL" something on your Clipboard?

If I copy and paste a line of code or an image, I can literraly "feel" the weight of it on my shoulders, like the mouse buttons are more defined or heavy.... like something important is floating around and I can sense it until I paste it in the needed place.


2) CNTL+F (find) used in the real world.

Do you think or consider, then re-evaluate a situation in the real world and accidently think of using CNTL+F to find it? When I'm in the supermarket trying to find spices, or reading a book trying to find a main point, I constantly think to "hit CNTL+F" in my brain, then say, wtf i'm retarded and a DORK.



Just a few signs of the computer dork, are you one?

FF

I think there's more to that clipboard feeling, because I feel it too.

I never think about ctrl+f in the real world, but I know I would be a whole lot better off with a "google chip" in my brain :Graucho

ya i'm such a dork, and need a vacation.

FF

I get that clipboard feeling too... Very weird indeed.

Me too for the clipboard feeling, I thought I was the only one!

haha me too, thought I was a freak :helpme

FF

Yea.....and how about when you say" LOL " out loud, or stare at some billboard trying to figure out what color code and font they used :Graucho


Ivy

LOL

I get both :1orglaugh :( :( :( :(

oh god don't get me into fonts and colors...


when i'm watching sports or any "text" heavy program (displaying players and scores)...

I always say shit like "Goddamn why are they using BankGothicBT for those teams, shit is so overused"..... and my roommates just shake their head and laugh.

FF

shit, i thought i was alone on this one.
whenever i see a billboard or sign, i always identify the font and hex value to all my buddies (who think i'm retarded), and also think of saying "lol" outloud (though, thank god, I never did).

HAHAAHAHAHAH left that one out but i ALWAYS do that as well, so


3. ALMOST or ACTUALLY saying "LOL" or "WTF" outloud during conversations.

FF

I am such a computer dork but that's what happens when you are 27 and been using computers for 20 years...

when you go out to eat and the person seating you tells you that they are your server for the night....

And you think to yourself is this a shared server (many patrons in the room) or a dedicated server (high end establishment, or not that many peeps in the room ) and how can I ping my server when needed ( empty drink, need rolls, etc)

i no longer laugh in real life but merely yell LAUGH OUT LOUD. and i always say brb.

and instead of saying el oh el, i saw lawl... (the correct pronounciation)

now THAT is EXTREME dork lololol.

but added nonetheless:

5. Comparing people in a room to people utilizing a server (traffic), and capacity compared to occupants.

FF

and did you ever notice when something requires a lot of scrolling, it "feels" heavier, as if you can feel the resistance, as opposed to something that doesn't have a lot of scrolling? :1orglaugh

meeting somebdoy from a different country and instantly thinking of the domain extension, ie .ru, co.uk, .au, etc.

I am a a computer dork.... BUT, my wife is hot, and I'm not bad looking so it's all good. :thumbsup

I think my biggest one is thinking there is an "Edit > Undo" option :1orglaugh

cheers fuckers this week was way too long :glugglug :glugglug

oh god yes, how did I forget that one? I edit/undo things in my head all the time...

even today, adjusting my lights for taking a picture, and moved one just a touch off when it was originally perfect...was like goddamnit EDIT/UNDO plz thx. lol.

4. Subconsciously wanting to EDIT/UNDO in real/tangible actions.

just realized I skipped 4 whoops, any more, gotttta be.

FF

yup I sure am

heh.

hit me up on IM illy, sorry i missed ya the other day ;-)

FF

I'm an ultra GEEK and lovin every minute of it!

I live and breath technology. I love taking things apart and discovering how they work. I love my computers like family. They each have their own personality.

Geeks are running the whole fucking planet now. Without us nerds this planet would shut down in a day.

:thumbsup

I don't get that feeling, but I like building pcs does that count?

you are a n3rd~! me too!

same here. im actually looking FORWARD to Christmas this year, i get to fly to Cleveland for a week. :1orglaugh

Thats hilarious I never say colors anymore I say its hex and people are like what the fuck!

I knew I was getting Geeked out when I could only sleep a few hours at a time because that was the maximum I could be away from my computer.

haha so true. there have been times that I have gone 20 mph over the speed limit so I could get to my computer faster LOL n3rd for life yo

I'd be like WTF

Yeah they don't really like it when you say "WTF" either :1orglaugh

that keyboard thing... wow... And I can feel when I have my temp files stuffed to the gills too before I clean em out.

But whats wierder is going out in the real world and standing in the mall and looking at all the gumbas and thinking, potential members. Not people.

I really think that when I see a bunch of jar heads cutting up in public. In private they are my best customers.

the server thing was neat.. I better not get hooked thinking in that way.

Another sad side point is seeing girls in public and going 1000, 3000, 5000+ for how much they could make for me...

Maybe its why I dont date. I see opportunity in every cute girl I meet. Umm but they don't - to bad.

Yea I do that too. Fuck..

same here, im such a dork lol

Oh man, this happens to me all the time. :helpme

lol

i did that several times already :1orglaugh

Nope, i'm not a dork but you're gonna offend a lot people here w/ that.

that's so true!

especially the CTRL+F part - countless times during class i'll try to CTRL+F through my book to help ease following the lecture going on