Come and fess up to the ways in which you are really square/bit of a nerd

Is there room for one more geek?

I have been known to read books on social and economic history.....just for fun.

I like to crotchet, I like jigsaws. I love watching TV programmes about engineering and building bridges, and skyscrapers. Oh, and university challenge.

I am a nerd and proud to be so.

i forgot tudor history and the Lonndon underground.

crystalqueen that sounds fab, like this?

I was used to being a sad geeky loner... Now I have something like a community, how terrifying! wonderful!

Oh Scuttlebutter

What an amazing wonderful job! What an impact you must have made upon the planet.

Am a highly skilled (blowing own trumpet emoticon needed) compost heap builder and leaf mould creator both in my garden, allotment and have taught many friends how to do this so highly envious of your experiences. Would love to see pics

I was a chartered waste manager with specialist qualifications in hazardous waste transfer. Local authority waste management, street cleansing and environmental enforcement. Spent many happy years working on landfill sites and managing recycling. Have visited a number of wheelie bin factories (proud emoticon) and can tell many happy tales of trips to Scandinavia to look at waste transfer stations. I met my husband on a compost heap (literally).

Working in the library is considerably less stressful, but I like stroking books on slopes, landfill engineering, gas turbine management as it reminds me of old times...

For my Christmas I got a necklace that spells my name. Using amino acids. Outgeek that.

I love this thread.

I love Jigsaws. Not keen on photo ones. Love the Thomas Kinkade ones , especially snowy ones, and have quite a few of the Wasgijs. They have to have at least 1000 pieces, and they live in the portapuzzle under the settee

Stranded I'm love Physics too, particularly the nuclear stuff, did dissertation on Chernobyl disaster.

Just looking to see what else I do that other do :)
Radio 3 -yes
Arranging crayons,felt tips etc by colour - yes
Sci-fi books/films/series - Stargate SG1 is the current favourite, Dh recently bought the box set of Babylon5,
Puzzles, especially Kakuro, Killer Suduko etc (bored with basic suduko) and basically anything that involves numbers and/or logical deduction.
Cross-stitch, more cross stitch, especially big stuff like Dimension/Gold that takes forever to do. Unfortunately I never get round to framing and displaying completed stuff. Willsingforcake - stockings are my next project too, once i finish my Mr Men alphabet

Musicals
Glee
historical biographies
documentaries on BBC4

I could go on...........

Festivalwidow

My Ladybird Book of Kings and Queens is the best resource for learning all of them!

Oh LeQueen, I get DD to sleep by going through all the monarchs backwards with an interesting fact about each.
Queen Anne - needed special coffin sort of thing.
If we've got to Edward the Confessor and she still isn't asleep I know we're in trouble.

Scuttlebutter-

Am intrigued....Just what was your former job?

Punctuation. Punctuation? Punctuation!

Oh my, I've fallen in love with you all!

Bonkers outdoor clothes shops do that to me too!*

Scuttle I want your job! How do you get to be a science librarian? When I was a teenager my Saturday job was as an assistant in a library. My private collection of books is now ordered in Dewey decimal system or author/chronological for fiction, I get twitchy if a book is in the wrong place!

I spend a lot of time online coding. HTML, PHP, CSS etc. I do it for fun, not profit.

I belong to the Wholock fandom (fans of Doctor Who and Sherlock).

I love nothing more than a good book and a mug of coffee.

SiFi/Fantasy reader - cann't sleep now without LotR audio book playing - dc's have become similarly addicted
Used to do Archery and fencing because of above
Ran school dungeons and dragons club
Knit and sew felt thingies to excess - am now also starting to crochet things
Obsessive about 'information', have to research things to the nth degree.
Love maths, science, genetics at the moment in particular as have a child with a Aspergers and see its play through out my family.

carve133 Love Anne of Green Gables!!

I like this thread. I cross stitch, quilt and wear a vest in the winter months. DH and I are B5 a holics (even have the feature length episode DVDs). I love a good spreadsheet, adore Radio 4, and I work in a science library (bliss). And I like jigsaw puzzles. I love country music and Wagner.
Because of my former job, I have an obsessive interest in wheelie bins and litter bins, photographing them on holiday (including our honeymoon)and once spent a day on holiday touring the local landfill site.The guy who took me round understood completely and admitted that he too had done this while travelling abroad. If walking down a street, I am known to comment on the make, model and year of a bin, much to the bemusement of my nearest and dearest.

I'm a philosophy teacher, and my husband says I'm a bit pedantic of a philosophy geek... as I just naturally pick up on arguments, say a philosophy quote or something to that effect.

I disagreed with him - until a couple of weeks ago when my 8 year old corrected me and told me off for using a Tu Quoque argument in the car! . Hmm, he may have a point .

StrandedBear I too own a lab coat :o
I cobbled together built my own pc with ubuntu on it,it was awsome :o
( have a mac now cos Dh took pity on me,I couldnt find drivers for video,then lost interest )
Im not into mechanical/physics or maths though, its molecular diagnostics here
Oh yeah and I have open office on my mac
I dont have to mental energy to be a nerd now

Oh and to top off my posts, I'm loving the ITV2 re-runs of 'Beauty And The Geek'. Loved it the first time, the second time....the third....That show has heart....And geeks.

Geek clique - do you think we could manage a whole string of these chat threads, only instead of numbering them 1,2, 3, maybe we could do primes?

Also, anyone interested in favourite equations? Mine would be the Lorentz covariant forms of Maxwell's equations and the field equations for general relativity.

I love this thread.

I love jigaws! Can't wait to start the one DH got me for xmas. They have to be Ravensberger though.

Outdoor clothing shops make my heart race. All those lovely technical fabrics to stroke......

I am a bioinformatician by profession. Do I win?

The last time I was in Paris I went mad in Monoprix and came home with 16 French school cahiers-the tall, narrow kind with squared pages for math only I would use them for writing. That's if I could bear to besmirch their pristine check.

I have them arranged on my desk, in sets of four as they came in four different colours, see? I look at them lovingly after a hard day.

Geek Clique