pfft

coding could be part tho

I'd still join a nerd club ;w; Nerdism isn't appreciated for its full potential around here-

oh also I have this stuck in my head, sorry-

Alouette,
Gentil alouette,
Alouette,
JE TE PLUMERAI-

(Lark,
Sweet lark,
Lark,
I WILL PLUCK YOU)

What the....
Do I want to know where that came from?

It's a french nursery rhyme :D

Every time my dogs come inside, I just ask them, "As-tu faire du caca?" I don't even know if it's grammatically correct, but no one questions it 'cuz it's french :T So i mean whatever-

I have heard of it. Haven't read it though. :) Is it good?

It's incredible

vogon peotry
the earth obliterated
zaphod beeblebrox

it has everything

It's funny and really strange, oh and you learn not to say b*lgium-

Cool. Maybe I should read it. :)

The answer is 42.

I'm a nerd who is actually old enough to remember when Star Trek was a weekly series (yes, TOS).
I watched the Animated Series on its original run, as well. I saw 2001 in the theaters. And Star Wars (before it was Episode IV).

I'm a retired nuclear medicine technologist with a major in biochemistry and genetics and I'm a pretty fair amateur astronomer. I find Stephen Hawking a fun read. I remember the moon missions (including the ones that just orbited). I've watched Halley's Comet and Hale-Bopp both pass by, along with several solar eclipses (both total and annular) and countless lunar ones.

I'm old enough to have been rejected for a Computer Science major because I'm female. It was considered "unseemly" to be good at math and science as a "girl", but it was downright scandalous if you wanted to invade the ultimate male stronghold of computers. That was back in the day when if you were lucky enough to have a home computer you saved your programs on cassette tape.

I've read every Isaac Asimov science fiction book and short story I could get my hands on, including the ones from the old Sci-Fi mags from the 40's my great-uncle collected (I come from a long line of nerds). Same with Arthur C. Clarke. Did you know that communications satellites orbit in the Clarke belt?

I was copy editor of my university newspaper. You misspelled "cite" in the OP. "Site" was originally a physical place (like a construction site), and later it also became a contraction for "website". "Cite" is to quote from or to refer to something. It originally started out as a contraction of "recite".

I would love to belong to a nerd club, but I'm afraid most of my nerd-ism is founded in my knowledge of the hard sciences (physics, chemistry, biology) and not in esoteric pop-culture trivia (unless you count pre-2000 TV, books and movies), so I might not fit in as well as other, younger people.

I'm not impressive, just older. I was around when being a nerd or geek was almost exclusively reserved for the male gender, but I had a great-aunt (mom's mother's sister) who was a surgeon and that great-uncle (dad's mother's brother) who was a sci-fi freak from his younger years. My grandfather (mom's father) was a research biologist and my great-grandma (geeky great-uncle's mom) was a suffragette. And my dad's dad educated himself so thoroughly that he managed to gain something like a bachelor's degree from a sixth-grade education--he read everything every spare minute. So I came by my nerdism innocently. We thought nothing about sitting around the dinner table discussing medical or scientific topics, ancient and recent history, debating on social views, talking about our spiritual/religious beliefs, etc and passing sci-fi novels around or all getting around the TV to watch the moon launches or Star Trek (or Batman, Green Hornet, etc.)

I meant no offense by speaking of pop-culture after 2000. It's just that I wouldn't really blend into a group with that as its main source of geek culture. :) Any more than most young people would blend into my retirement community classic rock blasting at our picnics. XD.

Weirdly enough, abot 70% of my family is int he medical field.

Even weirder: I have a lot of cousins and friends cousins and such studying in this one university that is really known for its medical srea.

Yeah. So some people think I'm heading there and then get surprised when I say I want this other university that is like half and hour away and not as famous in my religion (the first school is under he conference, the second broke ties cuz they wanted to be inclusive)